I sit here struggling to explain why once again I have failed. I posted that I was going to start running again, that I was going to complete the BRF 5k this year. But I didn't. I've run here and there, and I can make excuses as to why I have been slower, but they are just excuses. The last two weeks I have actually run more frequently, although not frequently enough. So now I have officially registered for a 5 mile race on December 13, 2014. I ran this same race in 2011 and loved it & the premium, so I am pretty excited about it. I am most likely going to need to walk some of it, but hey, I registered and I will complete it! I'm not waiting that money!
AND I registered for the Ocean City Half Marathon on May 2, 2015. Roughly 6 months away! I am excited!!!!
I visited the running store and got my custom insoles today, which helped so much when I ran before!
One step at a time!
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Monday, September 1, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
October 18, 2014
Full circle.
I will be running the Baltimore Running Festival 5k.
This is the first race I ever ran.
Time to return to my roots!
I will be running the Baltimore Running Festival 5k.
This is the first race I ever ran.
Time to return to my roots!
Saturday, June 16, 2012
PR's slipping away....
So today I ran the Baltimore 10 miler. Before I get to the true point of this post, I want to first do a quick race review. I love Corrigan Sport Events, and this remains the same today. Even though it was a rough night with Madalynn being sick, I was up at 6 am ready to go. I left my house around 6:30 and when driving up 83 quickly realized that the exits they said to take were not going to work. I got off at Falls Road and wound up coming in the back way to the zoo, which allowed me to park on the zoo grounds and take the shuttle to the start line. The previous day I picked up my bib at the zoo, so I had scoped out the porta potties. When I got there the lines were long, but if you kept walking to the end, there were several lines that only had 4-5 people in it. Made my way to the start like and found the 1:40 pacers. They announced that there would be a 10 minute delay due to traffic problems. (good thing I know my way around the city!) The first 5 miles I stayed with the pace group, but they started to pull ahead and I couldn't keep up. I could insert alot of excuses, but I will get to that in a minute. The course was great, there were hills but nothing too brutal. The volunteers were wonderful and the cold washcloth and watermelon at the end were perfect. I picked up my premium and headed to the merchandise tent. Got a t-shirt and a sticker and they offered to throw in a free vest (I think from last year) if I donated $1. Uh, yeah. Good thing was it didn't even have a year on it, which made it even more worth it! Made my way to the finish line for my picture and then found the shuttle and got to my car. All in all a very great race! When I got home though I opened my premium, and there is no logo on it! I wasn't the only one and CSE has already released a statement stating that they will resolve the problem, and I have full faith in that.
So. Here is the point of this post. My time today was 1:43:53. A pretty respectable time, but not even close to my PR in April of 1:39:44. Why? I know why. My diet. My lack of serious training. But mainly, my diet. In April I was a good 5-7lbs lighter. Which you don't think makes a big difference, but yes, it does. I cannot keep doing the same thing I am doing and expect just to magically be faster. I need to focus on eating healthy and fuleing my body with the right foods.
So Mary, I have a few questions for you......
How much do you want this? Are you willing to let yourself have the reward? Are you willing to commit fully??? You need to. You are going to. You have to.
Baltimore Marathon - October 13, 2012.
I WILL FINISH THIS MARATHON.
I WILL BE IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE.
I WILL BE A GOOD ROLE MODEL FOR MY CHILDREN.
I WILL.
So. Here is the point of this post. My time today was 1:43:53. A pretty respectable time, but not even close to my PR in April of 1:39:44. Why? I know why. My diet. My lack of serious training. But mainly, my diet. In April I was a good 5-7lbs lighter. Which you don't think makes a big difference, but yes, it does. I cannot keep doing the same thing I am doing and expect just to magically be faster. I need to focus on eating healthy and fuleing my body with the right foods.
So Mary, I have a few questions for you......
How much do you want this? Are you willing to let yourself have the reward? Are you willing to commit fully??? You need to. You are going to. You have to.
Baltimore Marathon - October 13, 2012.
I WILL FINISH THIS MARATHON.
I WILL BE IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE.
I WILL BE A GOOD ROLE MODEL FOR MY CHILDREN.
I WILL.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
2 Days post FRF/Titanium girl....
Sorry for the delay in posting, but life has been pretty hectic.
So as you know I completed the Iron Girl Half on 4/29/12 with a time of 2:10:10. I decided I was going to take it easy during the week and rested Mon & Tues. Did Yoga on Wed, ran less than 30 min on Thursday, rest Friday and Yoga on Saturday.
For the Frederick Running Festival, I had recruited my friend from work, Renee to run with me. Renee has been a runner for years, but never did much outside training. She did almost all her training on a treadmill with a few outside runs with me, but never past 5 miles. Renee was much more nervous than I was. We left for Frederick on Saturday around 3pm. I was not counting on getting any titanium girl merchandise since we were so late. We arrived and got our bibs, our jackets and checked out the pace group table. I wanted to run with a pace group again, and we signed up for the 2:10 group. Upon reaching the merchandise table I realized they actually still had some Titanium girl shirts, and was happy to score one. I also bought my second 13.1 car magnet! Yay! I bought a thing of glide, because I thought I forgot mine (found mine after the race on Sunday in my makeup bag) and checked out a few tables. Checked in with the iron girl table to obtain my bracelet so that picking up my medal would be easy. After leaving the expo we went to find our hotel. Settled in and began to look at the course map. I then realized that our hotel was smack dab at mile 1.5. Look out our window and sure enough see the porta potties that will be at the water station. I begin to get nervous because of road closures and tell Renee we are leaving at 6:00 on the dot. We venture out to Wal-Mart to get myself some gatorade and yarn to fix my iPhone holder (damn that scratchy velcro stuff) and Renee got everything in the store, including a door mat ;-). Across the street was a Ruby Tuesday's and we decide to eat there. Renee is a vegetarian, so she was happy to see the salad bar. I kept it light by having Tilapia, broccoli and mash potatoes. So yummy. We head back to the hotel at 8, and by 9 I am falling asleep.
Race Day! My alarm goes off at 5:30 and unlike most times I jump right up (something about race day makes me do this). Have my normal protein drink and get ready. We leave at 6:05 and luckily none of the roads have closed yet. We are able to score a spot on the fairgrounds and find a somewhat short line for the bathroom. By 6:40 we are at the start line and find the pace group guys. Immediatley something about one of them rubbed me the wrong way, but I figure what the hell, go with it. I quickly realized that I did not have as much energy as I did for Iron Girl, but attempted to stay with the group (and Renee). I began walking water stops, and up until about mile 7, Renee was with me. I fell behind and signaled for her to just keep going. We had talked before that we are there to run our race, and if one feels better than the other, to go ahead. No hard feelings! And we were going to meet at the beer table. Looking at my split times, mile 8-12 are my hardest. For FRF I was over 11:00 for all of them. This is something I need to focus on. I need to slow down in the beginning and let my body warm up. This is a new goal of mine. This time I actually saw the photographers and attempted to raise my arms and smile at a few. Hopefully they turn out better! In the end my time was 2:18:35, in my opinion, a very respectable time for having just done a half the weekend before. http://connect.garmin.com/splits/175396524
Two days later I am feeling pretty good. My hips are sore, but I am taking it easy. Marathon training will kick up soon and I need to make sure my body is ready!
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So as you know I completed the Iron Girl Half on 4/29/12 with a time of 2:10:10. I decided I was going to take it easy during the week and rested Mon & Tues. Did Yoga on Wed, ran less than 30 min on Thursday, rest Friday and Yoga on Saturday.
For the Frederick Running Festival, I had recruited my friend from work, Renee to run with me. Renee has been a runner for years, but never did much outside training. She did almost all her training on a treadmill with a few outside runs with me, but never past 5 miles. Renee was much more nervous than I was. We left for Frederick on Saturday around 3pm. I was not counting on getting any titanium girl merchandise since we were so late. We arrived and got our bibs, our jackets and checked out the pace group table. I wanted to run with a pace group again, and we signed up for the 2:10 group. Upon reaching the merchandise table I realized they actually still had some Titanium girl shirts, and was happy to score one. I also bought my second 13.1 car magnet! Yay! I bought a thing of glide, because I thought I forgot mine (found mine after the race on Sunday in my makeup bag) and checked out a few tables. Checked in with the iron girl table to obtain my bracelet so that picking up my medal would be easy. After leaving the expo we went to find our hotel. Settled in and began to look at the course map. I then realized that our hotel was smack dab at mile 1.5. Look out our window and sure enough see the porta potties that will be at the water station. I begin to get nervous because of road closures and tell Renee we are leaving at 6:00 on the dot. We venture out to Wal-Mart to get myself some gatorade and yarn to fix my iPhone holder (damn that scratchy velcro stuff) and Renee got everything in the store, including a door mat ;-). Across the street was a Ruby Tuesday's and we decide to eat there. Renee is a vegetarian, so she was happy to see the salad bar. I kept it light by having Tilapia, broccoli and mash potatoes. So yummy. We head back to the hotel at 8, and by 9 I am falling asleep.
Race Day! My alarm goes off at 5:30 and unlike most times I jump right up (something about race day makes me do this). Have my normal protein drink and get ready. We leave at 6:05 and luckily none of the roads have closed yet. We are able to score a spot on the fairgrounds and find a somewhat short line for the bathroom. By 6:40 we are at the start line and find the pace group guys. Immediatley something about one of them rubbed me the wrong way, but I figure what the hell, go with it. I quickly realized that I did not have as much energy as I did for Iron Girl, but attempted to stay with the group (and Renee). I began walking water stops, and up until about mile 7, Renee was with me. I fell behind and signaled for her to just keep going. We had talked before that we are there to run our race, and if one feels better than the other, to go ahead. No hard feelings! And we were going to meet at the beer table. Looking at my split times, mile 8-12 are my hardest. For FRF I was over 11:00 for all of them. This is something I need to focus on. I need to slow down in the beginning and let my body warm up. This is a new goal of mine. This time I actually saw the photographers and attempted to raise my arms and smile at a few. Hopefully they turn out better! In the end my time was 2:18:35, in my opinion, a very respectable time for having just done a half the weekend before. http://connect.garmin.com/splits/175396524
Two days later I am feeling pretty good. My hips are sore, but I am taking it easy. Marathon training will kick up soon and I need to make sure my body is ready!
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Iron girl!
Although I didn't smile in many of the pictures that were taken, I am very happy with this one!!!!
Sunday, April 29, 2012
I am an Iron Girl!
I officially have 13.1 in the books! Let me start by saying it was a great race, and I am very proud of my time (2:10:10)! I was able to convince my husband and mom to come to the race and the girls were there for the first time! That was a great feeling. When I came around the corner I could see them and they all started waving! Madalynn Grabbed my hand and ran with me a little bit, and then I sprinted to to finish line! It truly was an awesome experience. There was a KILLER hill in mile 6 that I had to walk a little, but I made it. Now for my critiques (better word than complaint, right?)
Security bracelet - It was put on my arm on Friday at the expo, and no one even checked it on race day. Perhaps had I not been wearing one I would have been stopped at some point, but I seriously doubt it. In my opinion, it was an unnecessary step.
Course short - Now this might be my Garmin's fault, but I noticed around mile 8, the marker was much sooner than when mine and other watches were beeping. And I am not talking about .01 miles, I am talking about .2 miles! According to my Garmin I only ran 12.89 miles. Strange.
Pace groups - it was previously advertised that they would have 7,9,11 and 13 min pace groups. As a 10 min/mile runner I was disappointed that there was no 10. At the last minute they added a 10 min mile pace group, complete with a homemade sign, but he was clearly unprepared to pace us for 10 min miles. I managed to stay with him for 6 miles, but his splits were 9:43, 9:39, 9:26, 9:45, 9:33, 9:22. Of course its nice to picture yourself going fast, but in my case when I lose energy on the first half of the course, I drag on the second half of the course. After I left him my splits were 10:30, 10:08, 10:51, 11:07, 11:07, 10:20. I understand that he was there last minute, but still.
Porta Potties - normally I don't complain about them because I expect long lines, but they seriously should have had more. They had maybe 20 total, for 2k + runners? And not to mention the hand washing stations both ran out of water, and I didn't realize this until after I put soap on my hands! Woops! And there were only a few on the course, at mile 6.5. Not that I would have stopped, but I heard other people complaining!
Kids stuff - Considering this is an all women's event, you should have prepared for alot of moms to be running, with kids that would like to have stuff to do. I've seen some races have a section for kiddies, which always helps when trying to entertain them.
Now some of the good stuff!
The medal & bracelet were AWESOME! So unique!!!!
After course food provided by wegmans was great & plentiful!!!
Free Muscle Milk - Awesomeness!
Free goodies for kids @ the Mix 106.5 tent - two thumbs up!
Parking & location were super easy. I got there no problem, and my husband as mother came later to see me finish and had no issues - super bonus!
Positive and uplifting atmosphere - awesome!
I am writing this blog as both the girls are sleeping. I would be sleeping too but I am still so pumped up from this morning, it's impossible! I'm sure tonight I will be out like a light!
Stay tuned - next weekend I run my second half marathon in Frederick, completing the Titanium Girl Challenge!!!
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Security bracelet - It was put on my arm on Friday at the expo, and no one even checked it on race day. Perhaps had I not been wearing one I would have been stopped at some point, but I seriously doubt it. In my opinion, it was an unnecessary step.
Course short - Now this might be my Garmin's fault, but I noticed around mile 8, the marker was much sooner than when mine and other watches were beeping. And I am not talking about .01 miles, I am talking about .2 miles! According to my Garmin I only ran 12.89 miles. Strange.
Pace groups - it was previously advertised that they would have 7,9,11 and 13 min pace groups. As a 10 min/mile runner I was disappointed that there was no 10. At the last minute they added a 10 min mile pace group, complete with a homemade sign, but he was clearly unprepared to pace us for 10 min miles. I managed to stay with him for 6 miles, but his splits were 9:43, 9:39, 9:26, 9:45, 9:33, 9:22. Of course its nice to picture yourself going fast, but in my case when I lose energy on the first half of the course, I drag on the second half of the course. After I left him my splits were 10:30, 10:08, 10:51, 11:07, 11:07, 10:20. I understand that he was there last minute, but still.
Porta Potties - normally I don't complain about them because I expect long lines, but they seriously should have had more. They had maybe 20 total, for 2k + runners? And not to mention the hand washing stations both ran out of water, and I didn't realize this until after I put soap on my hands! Woops! And there were only a few on the course, at mile 6.5. Not that I would have stopped, but I heard other people complaining!
Kids stuff - Considering this is an all women's event, you should have prepared for alot of moms to be running, with kids that would like to have stuff to do. I've seen some races have a section for kiddies, which always helps when trying to entertain them.
Now some of the good stuff!
The medal & bracelet were AWESOME! So unique!!!!
After course food provided by wegmans was great & plentiful!!!
Free Muscle Milk - Awesomeness!
Free goodies for kids @ the Mix 106.5 tent - two thumbs up!
Parking & location were super easy. I got there no problem, and my husband as mother came later to see me finish and had no issues - super bonus!
Positive and uplifting atmosphere - awesome!
I am writing this blog as both the girls are sleeping. I would be sleeping too but I am still so pumped up from this morning, it's impossible! I'm sure tonight I will be out like a light!
Stay tuned - next weekend I run my second half marathon in Frederick, completing the Titanium Girl Challenge!!!
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