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It’s been three weeks since Marathon #21. A LOT has happened since then – including the wonderfully painful Marathon #22. I don’t want to forget #21 mostly because I was happy, really happy. So here I sit, a in a state of self induced force, writing my own words down so years from now #21 doesn’t mesh together [...]
email – would you have any interest in interviewing Shalane Flanagan? me – jumping up and down – freaking out – ummm YES 2012 has been an incredible year in my life for so many reasons – so many in fact that I can’t even begin to count them. It makes me feel blessed and [...]
As I type this – I’m dancing at my desk. Some Nights is playing in the background. I’m embracing fear. I said I was smart – maybe I am – maybe I’m not. What I ultimately decided was that I didn’t know why I was giving up a race I loved for one that I was only half [...]
One of the many things I was reminded of at Army Ten Miler is that what you wear is EXTREMELY important in long distance races. Again long distance is relative to the person but for me a long race is anything over 10 miles. The temperature on Sunday just before the race was around 50 [...]
I’ve never had an injury. Yep – never. There have been times I felt a twinge of something coming. When I did I pulled back. I rested. I lowered my mileage, even stopped it for a little. I listen to my body. ALWAYS. Listening to my body is what I credit to this no injury [...]
Yesterday I went for an 8 mile easy run in the afternoon. It was raining in the morning so a triple stroller run was not an option and I WAS NOT in the mood to run on the treadmill. It felt easy because of the pace, but not so easy because of the heat – if that even [...]
51 miles last week in runs – only 16 of those miles were solo – all others were pushing a stroller. Instead of this making me feel sorry for myself that I have to push 100+ lbs of little people, it’s making me feel just a little bit bad a$$. I’ve got the motivation in [...]
Thank you Body Glide for picking Mile Posts as the blog of the month for May! I’ve been using Body Glide since I first started running. I don’t go running with out it. NOT JOKING. I know girls who have been blessed with stick thin legs – I am not one of them. I have [...]
My alarm went off at 4:11. My favorite number is 11 and my birthday is 4/11. If I was waking up early for a marathon I wanted the number on the clock to be a good one. I was not tired. In the weeks leading up to Marine Corps I tried to go to sleep [...]
Everything happens for a reason. Literally everything. We might not see the ultimate plan before us but it is there. We must bend but not break. This summer my mom was part of an awesome contest where the top prize was a trip to London to watch the 2012 Olympics. My mom, who used to [...]
This is going to be long, I hope you will stick around through all 26.2 miles[which may mean multiple posts], but if you don’t that’s okay. These posts are more for me than for anyone else. I want to remember how I felt in 2011 and this was a huge part of my whole year [...]
I think it is important after every marathon to take a look at your splits and see where there is room for improvement. This chart is the side by side split comparison for all 26.2 miles of the last four marathons I have run. At Boston Marathon 2011 I started out at what I would [...]
I love life. I consider myself a student of life, I make plenty of mistakes BUT I learn from them. When I learn something big I want to shout it from the roof top. I’M A DIFFERENT PERSON TODAY. Better than the day before. As a child I went to a private Christian school – [...]
Health On The Run & I Running Side By Side – LOVE IT As a girl in her 20′s I have often found myself regretting decisions I have made, things I have said. I am not sure there is a person in this world that has not at one time or another felt this way. In [...]
Feeling truly loved. Do you see that smile? A true smile is one you feel from the inside out. One that only the best of friends can bring on.I can not even begin to tell you how happy I am right now. Did I want a 3:10? Yes. Did I think to myself yesterday YOU [...]
I do not talk much about my goals for a marathon before a marathon. This year was the first year I even laid it out there that I had hopes of one day running a 3:10 marathon. I have goals. I just do not always want to share them. Why? Race Outfit Ready To Go [...]
What to wear is always a stressful decision for any marathoner but especially for first timers. You just do not know how you will feel or how your body will react during the race. What follows is my advice on what you should wear. As always what works for me – may not work for [...]
Let me just preface this post with this statement. I am in no way recommending that you do back to back marathons two weeks apart or even just back to back marathons. I do know however that there are many runners out there just like me who throw caution to the wind as they say [...]
Runners are all different. Our bodies and stomachs all handle things differently. The only thing I can say with CERTAINTY is that you without a doubt NEED to eat breakfast the morning of a marathon. I do not eat breakfast before any long runs, yet I would NEVER skip a morning meal race day. There [...]
The marathon is a long race. So long so that my mind still can not truly wrap itself around the distance after running seventeen 26.2′s. When racing – I no longer count how many miles to go. It is discouraging. Instead I find words, phrases, quotes that motivate me to keep going when I think [...]
It is easy to get caught up in the world. To fall victim to what we see in magazines, the Internet, the TV. Everyone wants to BE. Be better. Be happier. Be skinnier. Be prettier. Be more popular. Be faster. Be richer. Be smarter. It is not that BEing is wrong. What is wrong is [...]
I am telling this story exactly how I feel it happened. These are my words, my thoughts and my opinions. No one can change them and I am entitled to them. If you want to hear about my experience read on. If you have nothing nice to say, do as your mother told you and [...]
This story (http://running.competitor.com/2011/10/news/marathon-cheat-expelled-from-his-running-club_40158) in the news today reminded me of the day I was told point blank by another runner that he had cheated at a marathon. Rest assured I didn’t cheat – I ran all 26.2 miles! There are some terrible things people can do in life. In running I would say cheating is one [...]
I woke up this morning ready to start the week. I was in bed by 7:30 last night and turned out the lights before 9. I spent a great day yesterday with my little girl, who doesn’t seem so little anymore, and my childhood best friend[we have literally know each other since we were 5]. [...]
Dream Big Run Long is my personal mantra. On a run one day I was thinking about how much I like my initials. This may seem like a weird thing for someone to think about, but when your name is Dorothy you do allot of thinking about your name. I have gotten asked my whole [...]
I have been excited to share this news for about a week now! Life has been hectic to say the least, so blogging and cleaning the house [joy] has been put on the back burner [note: I never use the back burner, though I am thinking I should start]. My mom, me, and Ashley post sweaty [...]
Somewhere around mile 14.5 I looked at my Garmin. I wanted to hit 18 so I could take a step back week this coming weekend, but I was not sure I had the motivation in me to run any more miles alone. I knew that I could run straight home and I would be at [...]
Here is what my running week looked like last week: Training for Marine Corps Marathon has not officially started yet but I still like to evaluate my running each week to see what worked and what did not. When I look at this week and critique it, I see a couple of things. 1. Double [...]
Runner, dreamer, marathoner x24, mommy of 3, Women's Running Magazine cover model, published writer, Saucony contributing blogger, running coach, and lover of all things running. I Run This Body. Read More
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