I made a very important observation. When going through a rough patch with training, but feeling relatively a little better, going and and putting in one of your hardest weeks of training is probably not smart. For all the relative awesomeness of last week, I think I just dug myself a deeper hole. I felt super tired on my Monday run and my track workout was a train wreck. It more » Read more

This is going to be short and sweet today. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, the placebo effect or I really needed it, but since I started iron supplements last week I am feeling a lot better. I ran about as well as I have in the last few months. My workouts were solid and I made sure to run easy – no watch easy runs all week long! more » Read more

Tired. I’m always a little tired. I mean, I have three kids under 6, so of course I’m a little tired. I’ve been meaning to get blood work done to see make sure my iron, thyroid, vitamin D, etc are all good since my 3 pregnancies and epic nursing spells, which I finally did on Thursday. No results yet. But this week, beyond the normal, I was epically tired.  I more » Read more

I had a really solid week! It helped that I had company on almost every run. That never happens to me. It was awesome and it really made a big difference in my mood and motivation. I think I need to hustle up some more early runners to try to make this more of a thing for me. I also had to do a little modification this week. First, our more » Read more

All three kids were sick this week and the baby is getting her incisors, so I was pretty much a zombie all week. I even had my first experience getting puked on. In public. That was remedied by a shower and a change of clothes, but what was much harder to deal with was that every night heralded several sleep disturbances, so my already too little nightly sleep was rendered more » Read more

This week was a solid training week, but I have to admit I found myself having some staring at the trees moments. Yeah, fitness takes time. Yeah consistency and patience. Yeah I’ve only been back for a few months after being off for 2 years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I struggled with feelings of frustration this week that things are not clicking yet. I still feel slow and weak at more » Read more

Nothing like having to put your new philosophies into practice. Just as I finished my most recent post, I found myself completely unable to meet my goals in a workout. Like no matter how hard I pushed, I was running through quicksand (slowly). In the past, I would have quit for sure. But I didn’t and for that I am immensely proud of myself. I wasn’t sure what was causing more » Read more

I knew this week might get rough with my grandfather’s death and the accompanying family commitments and it did. It was far from terrible and despite a rough patch on Friday and Saturday, the rest of the week went well despite being completely off my schedule, not sleeping or eating well and generally being pushed to my max physically and emotionally. In particular, I had a relatively good track workout more » Read more

It’s been a rough week. My grandfather continued his downward decent and I spent a lot of time visiting with him and just being there. He ended up passing away on Saturday morning. Even with Hospice’s care, he was very uncomfortable and it was a relief that his suffering ended relatively quickly. Thank goodness for running for providing a much needed outlet and some me-time. Trying to take care of more » Read more