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Continue reading →: 13.1 in 2019? Check!***Written October 7, 2019… the day after the race.**** I did it. I completed my first half marathon. It was one of the most challenging things I have ever done in my life, but I did it. And I’m very sore today. I’m sure my race day experience isn’t the…
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Continue reading →: Training Updates and Weekly Goals
Hello everyone! So, I’m just going to get right down to it today. I have midterms starting at the end of the week and really need to study. I also forgot to plan time to write a blog post this week, because also I kind of forgot that I did…
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Continue reading →: I’m Back!
Hello, again! I apologize for my unscheduled break in my weekly posts. Honestly, the reason that I hadn’t posted in the past couple of weeks is because I didn’t workout and I was embarrassed. I have terrific excuses for why I didn’t work out, but they don’t really matter. I…
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Continue reading →: Four Miles Short
I really appreciate everyone who takes time out of their day to read my blog. I hope you appreciate me too, because I’m actually writing this post on Sunday since I know I will not have time to write a post tomorrow and I didn’t want you to miss out.…
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Continue reading →: Whoops! I Forgot to Run
Hello everyone, and happy Monday! Remember how last week I said I had planned an easy week? Well, I took it much easier than I intended to and accidently didn’t run at all. I’m not sure how this happened. The week just flew by and suddenly it was Friday and…
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Continue reading →: Treadmill Week
So, I started writing this post at 8 a.m. this morning, because I thought I was going to be really on top of things today. However, I only wrote like five sentences and then I got distracted for a few hours, so I deleted everything that I originally wrote and…
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Continue reading →: 100 Miles of Running: Sprints, Talking to Myself, AND Bonus Motivation
Hello everyone! I really wasn’t feeling like writing or posting a blog today, but I know that for some of you my weekly blog posts are your favorite emails to get, so here I am. (Kathrine, I’m talking about you). This week wasn’t the most monumental week for me, but…
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Continue reading →: Just Checking In
I know last week I said I might not have a blog post this week because I’m on ~vacation~, but here we are. I’m going to keep this really short this week, but I really wanted you all to know that I ran four miles on Saturday. I did take…
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Continue reading →: I Skipped a Long Run
Happy Monday! I can’t believe it is already July. This summer is really flying by. I’m kind of okay with this, because I’m really excited to start optometry school here in a little over a month. Also, I’m running my first half marathon (as you know) the first weekend in…
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Continue reading →: I Officially Registered for My First Half Marathon
Reasons this blog is being posted a little late this evening: I debated all day whether or not I should register for the half marathon today, and I didn’t want to write my blog until I had made my decision Once I started registering, I was faced with a bunch…
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Continue reading →: I Ran for 30 Minutes Straight
You guys should feel very special right now, because when I turned on my laptop Netflix was still open to episode of The Office that I fell asleep to yesterday afternoon. Instead of just resuming the episode, as I was tempted to do, I opened up a word document so…
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Continue reading →: Another Rough Week
Welcome back everyone! I’m happy to report that I did do some running this past week. However, I was also sick for most of the week, so I only got about 2.2 miles in. My neck started to hurt on Monday, and then on Wednesday I woke up with a…
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Continue reading →: A Week Off of Running
Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone! I hope you are having a little bit of fun with family or friends today. This week’s blog post will probably be on the shorter side, so it shouldn’t take too much time out of your holiday weekend plans. I did not plan to make…
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Continue reading →: I Ran Two Miles and Thought I Accidentally Time Travelled
Welcome back! So… I need to be honest with you guys. I only ran two miles this past week. I also ran them on the treadmill, so I didn’t do anything super exciting. I am really starting to love running on the treadmill though. Which is actually a lie, because…
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Continue reading →: Fifty Miles in Twelve Weeks
I’m not sure if you noticed last week or not, but I was ridiculously close to hitting the 50 mile mark on my total running mileage. Well, I definitely picked up on that. Prior to this week, I had been trying to run about seven miles total a week. However,…
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Continue reading →: My First Post as a College Graduate
Happy Monday everyone! I hope you are looking forward to catching up with me here on Mondays from now on. I didn’t do a ton of running last week. I ran about two and half miles on both Tuesday and Thursday. I was hoping to run seven miles total for…
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Continue reading →: Scheduling Change Ahead
I didn’t get my blog out this past Friday, so I guess that means I need to pick a new time to be posting. I know I am definitely not going to get an article posted this Friday, because I am graduating on Saturday, and I still have quite a…
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Continue reading →: I Ran a 5K, so I’m a Runner Now
Woah! A Monday blog! I know… I said I would be posting these blogs on Friday, and here we are with a Monday blog. If I don’t post this upcoming Friday, then I think I’m going to re-evaluate when I’m posting. I would really like to be posting on a…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes the Walk Is More Important Than the RunThis might have been the most impressive week of running for me so far. My roommate and I did two three mile runs this week. On Sunday we did a three mile run, and the weather was absolutely perfect for it. We only took four short walking breaks during the…
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Continue reading →: Don’t Worry, I Didn’t Forget About This
Sorry for the late blog post this week. I had a pretty busy weekend and I didn’t get around to publishing this on Friday like I originally planned. My week wasn’t too crazy. Now that it’s over, I have about four weeks until I graduate, which that is pretty crazy.…
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Continue reading →: Running Start 26.2 Edition
This is not a picture I’d typically want to share on the internet, but in the process of trying to get this blog up and running again, I kept getting hung up on trying to make things perfect. Then, I remembered one of my favorite all-time quotes, “If we wait…
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Continue reading →: Seven Months Later…
Welcome back to my blog! I think this might be the third time I’ve re-written this post. Why? Well I’m afraid that I’m going to get burned out on blogging again, and I don’t have a super clear focus on what I want to write about. I created this blog…
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Continue reading →: Quick Update
Heyyo! I’m back! Although, I don’t feel as bad about not posting last week, because two weeks ago I did say that I might not post due to my Labor Day weekend plans. Anyway, I’m back this week. So, as I mentioned in my last post, I am now just…
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