Well, I made it through the peak week of training for the Houston Marathon. The race is now 3 weeks away. I had my highest mileage week this past week, and am hopefully ready for my 30th marathon! Here's how training went: Monday: 6 treadmill miles before work, a solidcore class at noon (only had to work a half day!) and then 4 more outdoor miles with my sister Cresta, who came over for Continue Reading
Guest Post: My First Ironman by Paige
I have a fun guest post for you today from my friend Paige and her recap of racing Ironman Wisconsin this past September. Enjoy! Hi Everyone! If you recall, I wrote a guest post for Jessie last year sharing my running through pregnancy and the start of my return-to-running postpartum, (re-read that post HERE!) Remember how I ended being first female overall during the Ironman Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 27 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
This post is SUPER long, so sit down, put yourself a glass of NUUN (or wine) and settle in. I have some exciting things to share and I want to get them all out there in my weekly recap post. However, if you didn't check in here the rest of the week, be sure to look back at this post of running favorites from Rita and this post recapping my experience at PIZZA CAMP! First of all, you read that Continue Reading
Fits Do Race Reviews: The IDBI Mumbai Half Marathon
Last Sunday, I ran the IDBI Mumbai Half Marathon. Saturday Expo: The expo was held on Thursday/Friday/Saturday, but since I had to work far away from the packet pick up, Saturday was my only option. I had my driver take me to the University of Mumbai Kalina campus, where the expo was being held at the sports complex there. It was interesting to see the University campus...very different Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Three Weeks Until the Richmond Marathon!
After last week's 76 miles, this week was the beginning of THE cutback- it's basically taper time! This week was still a tough one though but mostly good! My coach usually has given me a two-week taper, but he said after already running two marathons this year (Tokyo and Grandma's) he thought it might be good to give me a longer, more gradual taper. Here's how it all went down: Monday: The Continue Reading
Week 10 of Training for the Tokyo Marathon & Sound Probiotics
Remember this post, when I first announced that I would be running the Tokyo Marathon? It was a week before the Outer Banks Marathon. It seems like ages ago! On November 9th, I ran the Outer Banks Marathon after which I took 2 weeks off from training. Then I dove right back in to preparing for the Tokyo Marathon. Now I am on week 10 of training with only 3 weeks left to go! Here's how Continue Reading
Weekly Recap & RockTape for IT Band Pain
Happy Sunday! I'm here with my normal weekly recap of training for the Tokyo Marathon. This was a big week for me, though I'm not in the taper quite yet. In the past, I would taper for three weeks, but my running coach is having me taper for only two weeks. I have a cutback week next week in mileage and then one more big week before a 2-week taper. I'm not sure how I feel about a 2-week taper, but Continue Reading