Fundraising for the American Cancer Society I am participating in a donation drive for the American Cancer Society. The fundraising event is called 10 days of 5ks in June. The name should make it obvious that the goal is to run 50 kilometers (31 miles) in the month of June. Thank goodness I have this…
I am going to try something different here. I am experimenting with editing and video ideas. I do not currently have the equipment or software needed to really make this (especially the audio voice over) appear professional, but am trying it out to see what works and to provide a little variety. There are two…
Half Marathon Reflection With my first half marathon having been completed, I have had time to reflect on what I learned from the experience of training for and running that race distance. I am actually surprised at how I feel about the experience and had anticipated a much different outcome. Firstly, I had never expected…
I finished! And I never have to do that again This was by far the largest race I have been in. So many people. I didn’t even consider that it might take a while to get to the start line and have my race officially start. Turns out, it took 22 minutes from the first…
I had posted this on social media a couple of days ago. Posting it here for those who have not seen it elsewhere.
There are two weeks left until the half marathon. I am feeling anxious for it to be over and feeling good about my readiness to run it. I should easily do a sub 2.5 hour half, but even if I don’t.. so be it. The event has 4 races. There is a half marathon relay…
With 5 weeks to go until my first (and last) half marathon, I am confident that I will finish and pretty confident that I will be able to run it in under 2.5 hours. Training has been going well, though rain has caused me to shift some training days around in the last couple of…
I have begun training for a half marathon. Today’s session was a short easy run of 5 min warmup followed by a 20 min run at 12:00/mi pace and ending with a 5 min cooldown. Unlike previous training, I started this session with some high knees in the warmup. I was trying to incorporate a…