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Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Half Marathon Race Recap
After a jam packed Friday and Saturday in Pittsburgh, it was finally time for race day! I kept waking up thinking I was going to be late for the race, so my sleep wasn’t exactly sound. I finally decided to get up a few minutes before my 5:30am alarm. I stumbled around the hotel room getting ready. I made sure I had my watch, my Honey Stingers, my fuel belt, my Nuun, and of course, my pace tattoo! We headed down to the lobby around 6 and met up with the rest of the #runfor crew. I ate half a blueberry bagel with butter and drank some Cherry Limeade Nuun.…
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Whole30 April Week 1 Recap
I left my computer in the office for the whole weekend, and it felt great! I’m still recovering from yesterday’s Half marathon – It was a memorable experience. I’ll recap it in detail tomorrow. Today is time for my week 1 Whole30 Recap! So, here we are at the beginning of Week 2 of our April Whole 30. How are you doing? Days 1 & 2 weren’t that terrible for me. I found myself having a headache at the end of day 2 and 3, but still feeling pretty good. I was drinking water like it was going out of style. I down like 6 of these a day –…
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CrossFit Endurance Half Marathon Training Plan
I consider running my first fitness love. That’s really what got me into “healthy living” several years ago. I started running a little bit at a time and then jumped into training for a marathon. Not the best idea I’ve ever had, but I learned a lot. Right after I DNF’d the Disney Marathon, I jumped right into training for the GO! STL Half Marathon just 2 weeks after that ugly DNF experience. I didn’t really feel prepared and practically crawled across the finish line in 3:23:48. It was a few minute PR from the Half Marathon Split from Disney, but I know that I know I can do better.…
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It’s all mental. {and a Team Living Water Update}
Goodness, is it Thursday already? I feel like my days kinda melt together during the week. Especially this week (although I could probably say that about every week). With the traveling home from Texas, a trip to the ER, adjusting back to life at home (laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, meal planning) plus trying to get back on track with my training there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. I went for a run on Tuesday. I made several mistakes in the preparation and execution of this run…. I’m going to share those with you in hopes that you don’t make the same mistakes. First of all I’m certain…
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Team Living Water Tuesday
Have you ever been thirsty? You know that feeling of thirst that doesn’t go away? What if you couldn’t just go to the fridge or the faucet and get water? That is reality for more people that you would think. They have to walk for miles just to get a small amount of water and carry it back. It is usually not even enough for their whole family for the day. What if you could help? Team Living Water from Living Water International on Vimeo. You can. I am currently training to run the GO! STL Half-Marathon in April on behalf of Team Living Water. No, it doesn’t mean you…