I found out years ago that races kept me motivated but 2020 has shown me that races play a far bigger role than I previously thought. Especially during this part of the year. September and October are when I am typically in peak form. I rarely sign up up for spring races simply because I […]
Well this has been an interesting spring. How ironic is it that my last post was titled Social Running? Obviously, I had no idea what was just around the corner. After spending the past 10 weeks running entirely solo, my group just began running together again. I can not tell you how thrilled I was […]
I have always enjoyed running with other people. Even when I was new to running and had little or no confidence, I still wanted to run with others. Being a relatively shy person, I seem to come out of my shell while running. There is one group that I consider my primary group but I […]
After years of checking out the website for this race, I finally registered. It seemed like a great way to ‘try’ doing an ultra-marathon. I say ‘try’ because this race is time-based and does not have a set distance. You run for 480 minutes (8 hours) and see how many loops you can run. My […]
One aspect of running marathons that I had trouble with early on was nutrition. My first marathon was a total disaster. I thought that carb-loading was simply having a big dinner the night before the race. I ate a big burger with fries the night before the race and by mile 18 the next day […]
I have already gone into detail in past posts about why I signed up for the Twin Cities Marathon so I will skip that. I would like to mention however that this is not my first time running this race. Back in 2013, this was my second marathon. My experience in 2013 was both positive […]
This race has distance options from 5k to half-marathon. My friend Shashi had registered for the half and suggested that I give it a shot. I liked the idea of doing my first half-marathon on a trail so I signed up. When you register, they allow you to select which corral you want to start […]
Last spring my friend, Dmitry, asked me if I would pace him in the Superior 100 ultra-marathon. It was a no brainer and of course I said yes for multiple reasons. One, I be a part of a friend’s major accomplishment. Two, it would allow me to see the infamous Superior 100 race first hand. […]
This wasn’t my first trail run but it was my first real trail race. It is also a race that I never would have considered signing up for. However, one day a coworker came to my desk and threw out the idea of me doing this race with him and another coworker’s husband. In addition […]
In the spring of 2018, I came to the conclusion that marathons were occupying too much of my time and taking the fun out of running so I declared that, after 8 marathons, I would never run one again and stick to running only for fun. As a result, I only ran twice each week […]
