As I’m writing this, I am exactly one week out from my first marathon, and mild panic may be setting in! (Tried to insert about 10 panic-faced emojis here, but they won’t show up on the blog.) This is my last running update before the marathon, but instead of writing about my past week or […]
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Marathon Training Monday: Breakthrough Runs
I’m presently writing this from a plane somewhere in the air between Kentucky and Pennsylvania, after wrapping up a great few weeks in Lexington. While I’m so, so sad to be leaving Kentucky already and before Pony Finals and Derby Finals, I am looking forward to getting back into a non-horse show routine, because do […]
Marathon Training Monday: Mileage is About To Get Real
Did you know that in 2014 the Palm Beach Area Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society alone 254 patients received co-pay assistance totaling $553,321.47!? In the United States, someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer approximately every three minutes and the need for financial assistance is huge! This week, I’m asking each of my […]
Philly Half Marathon Recap!!
After yesterday, I can finally check “run a half-marathon” off my lifelong to-do list!! I don’t know what took me this long to finally do one; it was so much fun, and I’m already really looking forward to my next one! (Tentatively the Sunshine State Half Marathon on January 17th.) Here’s my recap from the […]
24-Week Half Marathon Training Plan
I’ve consistently been running 3 to 4 miles about three days a week so I have a tiny bit of a foundation going into my half marathon training, but I’ve never run more than 5 miles at a time! With that in mind, I wanted to find a plan that would allow me to gradually […]