The World Marathon Majors! There are six different marathons that are part of the "World Marathon Majors." This is a series of the six largest and most renowned marathons in the world: Chicago, New York City, Berlin, London, Tokyo, and Boston. These races are part of a professional athlete series, but what you and I are probably more interested in is the "everyday champion" aspect of the Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: A Scary End to the Week.
I'm supposed to be limiting my time on electronics this weekend (I'll explain at the end of this post) but fortunately I had written most of this recap Friday to get a head start. I'll keep it short and sweet, I promise! Here's my weekly recap of training to run Grandma's Marathon with my sister Erin on June 17: Monday: I woke up to snow/rain mix, so I decided to save my run until after work. Continue Reading
How To Talk to Runners: Advice From A Non-Runner.
(This is a guest post from a friend of mine who would like to remain anonymous. The opinions expressed in this post do not reflect the opinions of the Right Fits...enjoy!) Let’s be out with it; talking with runners can be difficult. At one point, everyone’s had it happen to them. You have a friend that’s a runner. Then you have another friend that’s a runner. You naively think to yourself “I bet Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 7 Weeks Until Grandma’s Marathon with my Sister!
Happy Sunday! I hope you had a great weekend and bloggers, I hope you join Jess and my link-up, details at the end of this post. I'm still in recovery mode from Boston, but I'm slowly building back some mileage to prepare to pace my sister Erin at Grandma's Marathon in 7 weeks. Her goal is somewhere around 4:15-4:20 and her training has been going very well. I hope to help her achieve this Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Boston Recovery
Hi all, I'm here with my weekly recap, even though this week did not include a whole lot of structured training. Just lots of recovery! But I'm linking up nonetheless with Jess as usual. Details below if you want to join us! Monday: 26.2 miles. My marathon recap is up! Tuesday: Rest :) We bummed around Boston for the day before catching an evening flight back to Minneapolis. We Continue Reading
Fits Do Race Recaps: The 121st Boston Marathon.
This past Monday, I ran the 121st Boston Marathon. This was my 26th marathon, 5 out of 6 of the World Majors, and state #17 on my 50-state goal. It's taken me a bit longer than usual to write this recap. I think it's because it's really hard for me to separate my personal performance from the race as a whole. I worked hard to get to Boston. It took a lot of sweat and tears to Continue Reading
Right Fits Interview with My Sister Erin!
I mentioned in this post that after Boston, my next running adventure will be pacing my sister Erin again. If you've been reading for awhile, you'll remember when I ran Twin Cities Marathon with her. It was so much fun for both of us, so when she told me she wanted to run Grandma's this year I was all on-board to run with her again! With that said, I thought it would be fun for you guys to get Continue Reading