We did it!! And I’m okay with never doing it again!!
“Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.” -Sheryl Sandberg 06.19.2021 We. did. it. The week leading up to race day was filled with a rollercoaster of emotions,…
The countdown is on…5 days to go!!
“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles” – Alex Karras The long desired and trained for week has arrived!!!! If you would’ve asked me back in February how I thought my training was going to go for the next 20 weeks, I don’t even know what I would’ve told you. Now though?…
Weeks 13 through 16; We’re getting close!
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose”- Lyndon B. Johnson Last time I wrote, I had just accomplished a personal best of 9 miles. Looking back, I am still proud of that day, and to be completely honest, I haven’t had an accomplishment quite like that one since.…
Weeks 9 through 12; double digits ahead!
It’s hard to believe that tomorrow begins week thirteen of training-over half way to race day! It’s just as hard to believe that it’s been four weeks since I last wrote. A lot has happened while simultaneously not much has happened. Instead of boring you with the details of the two handfuls of runs that…
Week 8; off the gas
“You can’t hate the Beast and expect to beat it; the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.”- Christopher McDougall, BORN TO RUN Week 8 was the first week in a while with no new mileage amounts. 🥳🤩🤪🎉🎉💪💪For me, it was somewhat of…
*Week 7!! *
“When you recognize that failing doesn’t make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things”- Lauren Freshmen ***disclaimer for those who subscribe to my blog: please disregard the first post sent to you! We had a laptop glitch which caused a premature publish of the week 7 post with no…
Weeks five and six; we’re in the mix
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit”- Banksy Happy Sunday! What a beautiful day! Week five was a fine little week. After pushing myself to hit four miles the week before, I coasted into week five feeling confident and light. We started the week on Monday, March 1st with a morning, indoor…
Week four; there’s still a lot more
“Fall in love with the process, and the results will come”- Eric Thomas Looking back on week 4 seems like Monday was an eternity ago. Monday and Wednesday’s runs were both deemed 2.5 milers. At this point in my training, I know dang well that I am capable of running 2.5 miles, so heading into…
Week three; the feeling of free
“We can do hard things” -Glennon Doyle, Untamed Week three was three of a kind. I was once told that in running, everything happens in three’s: the good, the bad, and the okay. Ironic or not, the three of a kind couldn’t have been more alive than it was this week: week three of my…
Week two; it’s still feeling new
Wow!! What a week!! This week was rather busy to say the least. Between working my normal full time job, and working 35 additional hours at a flower shop-I’m proud of myself for still managing to run the miles that I needed to this week. 🙂 In part, I credit the accomplishment to the fact…
Week one; It’s Officially Begun
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” -Vincent Vangogh The beginning of our half marathon training began on Monday, February 1st, a great day to get started! Some of you might be confused as to why we’re already starting when the race isn’t until mid-June, well, here’s the two part…
A fire alarm a-day keeps the doctor away??
“My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”-Forrest Gump Happy last Sunday of January, 2021! It sure went by fast, didn’t it? I feel like it was a whole lot of not accomplishing anything while also being a month of realizing what I need in…
New Year, Same Me…Just Working on Improvements
“There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself” -Michael F. Staley We have officially surpassed the two week mark into the New Year. And wow, the first two weeks of 2021 have already brought our Nation through a series of tumultuous waves. I think we’ll leave it at that for now.…
Good Riddance to 2020
“ The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie I think it’s safe to say most of us are MORE than ready to say goodbye to 2020 and are very much so looking forward to a fresh start to a New Year. While I…
Setting Intentions this Holiday Season.
“Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.” – Brenna Yovanhoff Heading into the Christmas week after a very complicated year certainly feels different than “normal”. Usually this week is filled with family reunions of…
Routine is good, well-mostly.
“Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do” – Sean Covey First off-HAPPY FRIDAY!!!! You’ve made it through another week of 2020. 🥳 When thinking about what I wanted to talk about this week, it only seemed fitting to talk about the part…
It’s been a minute..
I’m not really sure how to start things off this time…and quite frankly for the last several months I have been contemplating how, when, and if I should continue with my blog posts. Why? Justice. Equity. Equality. Peace. Human Rights. And a Global Pandemic. With the many events that have occurred since my last post…
Peaks and Valleys
“Celebrate what you accomplish, but raise the bar each time you succeed”- Mia Hamm I think sometimes it’s easy to be so futuristic and goal oriented that we forget to acknowledge how far we’ve come…well at least I know I do! The pattern of riding out highs and lows in my running journey has continued…
Lots of new and lots to do!
“What a caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly” -Lao Tzu A lot of the last two weeks has been confronting the fact that my chapter of college is coming to a close-and quite frankly in a way that I would’ve never imagined prior to this. In my head, it…
Oatmeal Cookies and a Reality Check
“Slow progress is still progress”- Unknown The last two weeks have simultaneously gone by extremely fast and slower than molasses. I don’t really know how to explain it, but the days fly by and tick along all at the same time. What should have been my week 11 of training was a week of trying…
Week 10, begin again??
“It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself ,that determines how your life’s story will develop.”- Dieter F. Uchtdorf A definite low week. Week 10 brought both the highs and lows of my journey and crammed them side by side, day after day. I feel like I’ve been riding a physical, mental, and…
It’s fine, i’ll be fine…week 9
“In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand.”- Agnes Kamara-Umunna I can’t help but feel like the quote above is exactly what we are doing in America right now. There are so many unknown variables in our future that all those in powerful positions must just make…
Week 8, the not so great
“Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever”- NA I can honestly say I never imagined living at the time of a pandemic. It’s scary and uncertain, probably two of my least favorite feelings ever-fear and uncertainty. A few months ago fear and uncertainty meant…
Uncertainty of week 7
“It’s how we embrace the uncertainty in our lives that leads to the great transformation of our souls” – Brandon Trear I have a feeling that most of you had a week filled with uncertainty this week, too. From schools closing, to restaurants only serving takeout, and all the things in between, it has been…
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