(If you primarily pop in here for my weekly recap, be sure to check out THIS POST from earlier this week!) Week 5! Yup, it's been FIVE weeks since I broke my tibia and fibula (and four weeks since I had surgery to put it all back together.) I'm still doing my weekly recaps, just as I used to, though let's be honest, they look a whole lot different than they did 6-7 weeks ago, don't Continue Reading
Four Weeks Post-Break, Three Weeks Post-Surgery
I'm four weeks post-leg break and three weeks post-surgery. (If you're catching up, read this post and this post.) This week definitely showed signs of progress. I still had my moments when I felt sorry for myself, especially when seeing pictures on social media of all the fun the Marathon Tours group was having in Antarctica. :( Social media can be harmful that way, can't it? Seeing how Continue Reading
Weekly Recap…
If you missed my post from yesterday, you might want to catch up here. With this drastic change in plans (an undesired change, mind you), I doubt I'll have much to share in weekly recaps for fitness for awhile. But I still want to continue connecting with you all, so I'll probably share recaps of my recovery. (HoHo Runs and Wendy, I hope that's okay!) But I did have one regular week left of Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 6 Weeks Until the Antarctica Marathon
Another wintry week of training for the Antarctica Marathon, while living in Minneapolis! Here's how everything went this past week: Monday: 8 mile run commute into the office. Slippery, snowy, same old story in Minnesota in January. Tuesday: Rest day! I had a work event at a cooking school; it was so much fun! Wednesday: I was awake and in my running clothes, ready to run commute. I Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Training for the Antarctica Marathon
Cheers to running outside! Though my paces were slower than normal, I got outside for all but 10 out of 60 miles of running. Yay! Here's how this week of training for the Antarctica marathon went: Monday: HUGE blizzard in Minnesota, just as forecasted. I think in the city we received over a foot of snow. It was the most snow in a single day in the past 7 years; it was nuts. It started in the Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 8 weeks Until the Antarctica Marathon
Okay, I know last week's post was "8 Weeks Until the Antarctica Marathon" but I was wrong. This week is actually 8 weeks until the race, 7 weeks until we depart on the trip. Whoops! **And for any potential burglars planning to stop by while we're gone, my sister's family is going to be housesitting for most of the time, so I wouldn't recommend it! Back to the recap of training for the Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 8 Weeks Until the Antarctica Marathon
Another week of winter running complete...It wasn't my strongest week, but here's the recap: Monday: 6 miles at an 8:58 min/mile pace outside. This was supposed to be my rest day, but it was warm outside (in the 30's!) so I moved my schedule around so I could take advantage. I probably shouldn't have though, as my IT band was SUPER sore and I struggled. I had to stop a lot to stretch and was Continue Reading