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Week in Review: After your most amazing week ever of training you sometimes...

Yep it happens. January 28th – February 3rd We last left off with the most amazing week of training ever complete with a Sunday rest day!  Woot!  Woot! I woke-up bright (okay dark) and early on Monday...

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My very first 10 mile race (sort-of): Fort Steilacoom Resolution Series

Saturday January 26th First things first, I had no intention of really racing this 10 miler.  I knew it had been a hard week of training with the 400m repeats and the original plan was to tempo 10 at...

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Month in Review: Newton is pissed. And he’s coming after you.

February 4 – March 10  (source) It’s true.  Mr. Newton is mad at me maybe it’s because I never finished physics in high school.  Silly misdiagnosed ruptured appendix (apparently Mr. Darwin wasn’t too...

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Week in Review: Dorsiflexion and a horse named Bunny

March 11-17 So true story I’m not good at setting goals:  our relationship is complicated at best.  This summer I made a rather sad attempt to set some and they were ambiguous at best but one of them...

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Week in Review: I do dumb things

March 18-24 Monday I took a  much-needed rest day from all aerobic activity.  I think I might have officially reached my cross training threshold.  Seriously I’m no fun to be around as evident by my...

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Week(s) in Review: Dear April, where did you go?

March 25-April 21 Before we dive into where April went and how one bounces back from almost four weeks of no running and then decides to make the awesome life choice to run a half marathon in a month...

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Week in Review: And this might not be how one tapers for a half marathon… #maybe

April 22-28th And now a race week (finally geesh). Initially I’d wanted to race race the Eugene Half Marathon but with my little running set back I realized I was going to have to train through this...

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Eugene Half Marathon Recap: And now we race?

And now we race?  Right? Okay, so I was a bit hesitant entering this race weekend and had mixed/complicated feelings about racing in general.  On the one had I’d had about 4 weeks of solid training but...

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Too many weeks to count in review: So I might be a little stubborn (part 1)

April (yes April) 29th – June (yep June) 2nd I know peeps, you might want to skip this… it could get long and ugly but I promise to try my best to keep it quick (mostly because I can’t remember all the...

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Too many weeks in review to count: So I might be a little stubborn (part 2)…...

April (yes April) 29th – June (yep June) 2nd (part 2) May 12- 19, Dang, we’re only in May?  I can’t even remember May anymore… must have blocked it out. I promise there is a race coming. Monday was a...

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Month in Review: r-e-s-t-i-n-g find out what it means to me…

May 27 – June 30th Week 1 of r-e-s-t-i-n-g: May 27th – June 2nd May 27th officially kicked off my off-season (whatever that means).  As I mentioned previously I haven’t had any downtime since last May...

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Week in Review: Anaerobic what?

July 1-7 In this blog post I do so solemnly swear to only recap one week. I know. Mind blown. I guess my 5 weeks of resting (ish) is sort of over.  This week’s workouts arrived in the inbox with some...

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Week in Review: Good news kids, I still know how to tempo

July 8-15 Two actual almost timely weekly recaps in a row?  I know, I don’t know who I am either.  Must be all the endorphins. I was on my own this week for workouts meaning I had to choose my own...

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Week in Review(s): The most boring blog post ever written in history of blogs…

July 15-28th You have been warned. I do promise an epic recap of my Ragnar Northwest Passage experience with an extremely underwhelming photo recap because surprising no one I lost my phone for most of...

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Ragnar Northwest Passage and some Elite Beer Miles

Relay confession:  on race day, I wasn’t so sure I was actually ready to race.  Apparently a month of rest and a few weeks of training doesn’t build one’s confidence in one’s ability to relay.  Still I...

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Weeks in Review: Oh hey, August I guess we have some catching up to do…

July 29-August 25 A full Hood to Coast 2013 recap is coming soon (well relatively soon) but first we have some miles to get caught up on!  I last left off this training tale with a riveting recap of my...

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Weeks in Review: Goalless in Seattle

August 26th – September 22nd Looks like I blinked and September is gone.  What happened?  I could bore you with the amazingly awesome details of my life or we could just talk about the running? The...

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My one picture summary of Hood to Coast 2013: (JK- there’s lots (LOTS) of...

My one picture summary of Hood to Coast 2013: (source) We crack ourselves up.  My teammates were pretty rad this year and we laughed a lot and had fun, but before we get to that I should set the scene...

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Weeks in review: Maybe not the best half marathon training plan…

Good news kids my lack of blogging is not due to an injury or major life crisis but everyone’s favorite excuse: good ole busyness. So I think it’s time we got caught up (or at least start catching up)....

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Victoria Half Marathon and a few of the most painful miles of my life…

Five life lessons from Victoria: 1)  If you’re going to run a half marathon, train for a half marathon. 2) Run tangents. 3)  Garmin will let you down. 4)  You can will yourself to a finish line. 5)...

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