Thirteen years ago, almost to the date, I stepped foot on a 200 meter track to run my very first race. I chose to forgo my third year as a pitcher on the high school softball team to pursue indoor track all because I liked how it was starting to feel to run. After those 400 meters, I didn’t like the feeling. I wanted to puke. I was dizzy. And more » Read more
Lessons From My Surprise 10k PR
In college I ran a 5,000 meter PR in the first meet of my sophomore indoor track season and allowed it to be completely overshadowed by a disappointing second place finish. I thought I had won the race due to confusing lap traffic on a 200 meter track and didn’t learn until a few hours later that I’d finished in second place. I could easily fill a post with stories more » Read more
Breaking 22: The Night I Quit Quitting
Breaking 22 minutes in the 5k has become a crutch. And I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that. I’ve run 22:24, 22:40, 22:17, 22:16, 22:11, 22:12, 22:04…the list goes on and on. So do the reasons for not breaking that barrier. That 22:04 was a hilly course. I went out too hard. The humidity was high. I don’t know how to race. After upping the ante this past year in more » Read more
Stuck
In the blogosphere it’s easy to portray the image that everything is like so great all the time. I am soooo happy and everything is perfect. All. The. Time. While there is so much to be grateful for in all the Salty Bloggers’ lives, we’re all still human. Including me. To prove it (because I know you’ve all been secretly wondering) I want to share a (probably irrational) fear I more » Read more
How Far Was That Marathon?
Oh that Grandma and her nagging about drooping uteri and silly questions about race length. I always laughed her off, but what if she was actually on to something. Recently there was a big race in town and many runners wondered if the course was short. It got me wondering, when you finally hit the finish line how do you know how far you really went? Unless the race was more » Read more