Yeah! Road Trip to San Diego! 🙂 The race is this weekend! Finally all that hard (ahem!) training is going to pay off… or something. Our SGV Team in Training team raised over $150,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! How awesome is that? At the Team in Training shake-out run – coach Erika and […]
It has been an amazing Team in Training season and I wish I would have shared more with you as we trained. We had some fun moments learning THE BIG RESET & sumo-style stretching. We had amazing fundraising heroes, who all went out of their way to raise money for a cause so much bigger […]
Wow! I didn’t think I could stay away from racing for a full year. But then it happened. My last race before my running sabbatical was the Austin Half Marathon in 2015. I took 3 straight months off from running and then slowly added short runs back into my routine. And when I say “short […]
This is actually hard. Really hard. The first few runs after my running sabbatical were easy and fun and I thought it would be easy to just go and work my way back up to real mileage. Read more: the 5 lessons I learned from my running sabbatical. But it’s not easy! I am […]
“What matters most, more than training and luck, is the heart. Only a fearless and determined heart will get the the gold medal. It’s all about passion.” ~Isabel Allende My training for the upcoming Austin half marathon can be at best described as “taper first, train later”. You could call it “fearless”, but it wasn’t […]