My Running Journey
I really do have a love/hate relationship with running. I love races, I love the bling, I even love the feeling of having completed a run. I just don’t love running. Here are a few of my blog posts about running – race plans, recaps, general musings about this, my athletic nemesis.
Race recap: runDisney Wine & Dine Half Marathon
It's taken me some time to write this race recap, because this race really didn't turn out as planned. Last year Mr Awesome and I made a plan to run the Star Wars half marathon in Disneyland in January 2015, and the Wine and Dine in Walt Disney World in November,...
I want to go all the way
While the title of this post might conjure memories of angsty teenage years, it's not what you think. I am four weeks away from my next half marathon and I am slowly increasing my distance each week. On today's plan, 10 miles. I had left it to the final day of the...
Training…it actually works.
I was starting to stress. Vancouver had an unseasonably warm summer. There were bears, cougars and general reluctance all working together to keep me from training for the upcoming half marathon. The first weekend of September we went down to Portland for the...
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
As I've stated in multiple blog posts and many, many posts on my Facebook page, I don't love running. I find it hard. I rarely get into the "zone" that I hear runners talk about, where they're elated and it's just easy. Long runs are almost easier mentally, because I...