When Lorraine at Run Wifey sent an invitation for the chance to meet Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea, the authors of Run Like a Mother and Train Like a Mother (Another Mother Runner), I was super thrilled ! I love their books and their articles on Runners World. Needless to say, it was a great event with a lot a giveaways (of course, I didn’t win any) and book reading from Train Like a Mother, the new book (which I’m kind of…
What’s better than running with friends? Hanging out with running friends, of course! Running Buddies Dawn and Shirley; who have moved on to faster pace-groups.(I need some wings on my shoes!) Dana, Dawn, Shirley, Me and Coach Karen – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!
February of last year, I had a sudden buildup of insanity and with only one year of faux-running “experience”, I signed up for the Chicago Marathon. After getting over my initial shock at my audacity, I joined Get Fit Atlanta to help me get to the start line. Over the course of the next 6 months, I logged more miles than I’d thought possible, laughed with some great friends, got advice from passionate coaches, and lived and breathed in the…
Love is Signing up for your first marathon in the same year. Training for your first marathons side by side (kind of – Saturday and Sunday). Swapping parenting days on the weekend so both can get their runs in. Not killing each other after exhaustingly long training runs. Buying bags of ice for each other to soak in cold chilly recovery baths. Putting up with one partner talk only about the Marathon, and the other partner talk nothing about the…
Meeting up with Becca (and her husband Jerry), Kelly and Michaela (for 20 seconds) was the next best part about Savannah weekend!
In the weeks leading up to the marathon, along with yoga, I turned to the Gita and other Hindu works to calm my nerves. I had downloaded the text apps onto my iPhone. Then comes this tough time I’m having at Miles 8-12 in the Marathon when I’m partially struggling with the heat. I was posting on Facebook and getting tons of encouragement. One of those times, I fumbled with launching the Facebook app and instead launched one of my…
Yesterday was Krishna Janmashtami. The birthday of Lord Krishna. One of my favorite festivals with lots of childhood memories. The day before was my sweet 16 (miles). My first. The 16 miles left with me a great runners high on Saturday. But I was also in the lows Saturday night and Sunday morning. Not much energy to get anything done, but also a calendar full of birthday parties for the kids! In the midst of all this, I skimmed over…