Two weeks from today, I will be running through the streets of Chicago. I can barely contain my excitement, my nerves, my butterflies. I know that when I write my next blog post from my hotel room just outside of Grant Park, I will be writing from a new perspective. For now though, I will not get ahead of myself. […]
I am back after taking an impromptu break for the month of August from blog writing. Last month started off with a long holiday weekend and I thought to myself “I’ll write it on Monday” Well, there have been several Mondays and many milestones which have occurred since that thought. I honestly could not have imagined all of the amazing […]
Weeks Three and Four of my Chicago Marathon Training plan are in the books! I began to reflect on how the last two weeks of training have been for me. The truth is, they went by so fast that I had to scroll down my Nike Run Club app to jog my memory on how this most recent block of […]
I do not know about the rest of you, but the month of May certainly went by in the blink of an eye. It felt like yesterday when I put the theme together to Train Big and here, we are at the end of another month of running. If you are anything like me, you are partial to fall running. […]
Summer 2018. I can only describe that period in my life as traumatic. When I look back on that time, I think that a casual observer would note that I was having the time of my life. I just returned from a European cruise. I was in the thick of training for my first full marathon. My birthday was three […]
I have a confession: I always get butterflies in my stomach when the month of May rolls around. They are mainly good butterflies though. The kind that stems from the anticipation of one of the most grueling seasons on the year is on the horizon: marathon training season. The beginning of May is the time that I use to focus […]