My Training Journey includes races I’m training for, my journey during training and just tidbits of information that I have found useful.
“How did your race go?” This is the first question I always get when I finish an event. It’s understandable; training for an event pretty much consumes my life, especially a half-iron distance. My friends see constant posts on social media of my training; my family wonders where I’m at most of the day. So [...]
It’s Wednesday and early tomorrow morning I fly out to Phoenix, Arizona to run the Phoenix Marathon on Saturday. This will be my fourth marathon and my second attempt to qualify for Boston. Unlike my failed attempt last year, I have kept this marathon on the down-low. I haven’t announced publicly on Facebook or mentioned [...]
It’s been a whirlwind past few months. After a six week long summer vacation, we decided to up and move to beautiful Bend, Oregon. I could go on about the 300 days of sun, glorious seasons of hot summer temps, chilly fall mornings and snow packed winters that give way to beautiful spring days, but [...]
If you have Boston 2016 as a goal then join the Boston 2016 Facebook group for motivation! Now is a great time to choose your qualifying race and have a support group from around the country to help you train and stay motivated! We can share stories, ask questions and virtually train together! Plus how [...]
I absolutely love life. I really do yet here I am currently with a knee injury preventing me from running in the Eugene Marathon which I’m registered for. This is a first. During training I stayed optimistic that it would pass, perhaps being able to cycle and swim my way to the start line but [...]
My last post was about swimming and biking my way to the Eugene Marathon start line due to a knee injury and not really sure how it would all turn out. Well, it looks like I’ll never know. I had to come to the hard realization today that there is no way I’ll be able [...]
