Tales and Tips from a Running Mom
As a stay at home mom/running mom, there are 2 very important pieces of equipment that I need to keep running: my jogging stroller and my treadmill. If you’re better than me, then all you need is an alarm clock to wake up and get moving before your kids and spouse wake up. For me, [Read On]
The absolute biggest obstacle I face when it comes to my training: sleep. I never get a full night of sleep. Zain will be 2 in just a couple weeks and he still does not regularly sleep through the night. I accepted this fact for a long time because we chose not to do sleep [Read On]
When it’s cold outside, it takes me a mile, sometimes a mile and half to feel comfortable with the chill in the air. I spend that first mile wondering if I dressed appropriately or if maybe I’d be better off going home and getting on the treadmill. I know that the treadmill is not a [Read On]
When my first marathon was over 5 years ago, I felt like I had no reason left to run. Not only was I still nursing injuries sustained during training, I just didn’t feel like running. I remember feeling the post-marathon blues in the weeks following the Marine Corps Marathon. My first attempt at running 3 [Read On]
A lot of people have asked me what training plan I used while training for the Baltimore Marathon so I’m going to share it with you. I’m also including my half marathon training plan that I followed for the MD Half Marathon and ZOOMA Half Marathon in the Spring. The marathon training plan I came [Read On]
When I ran my first marathon I was 22. I had just graduated from college, started my first real job and began my first semester of graduate school. I was a different person than I am today. In a lot of ways, I think I’m a not only a stronger runner today, but also a [Read On]
On Saturday morning, Zain kindly woke me up just before 5am so I didn’t need to wait for my alarm to go off. After getting him back to sleep so he could have another hour of rest, I excitedly woke hubby up and asked him if he was ready to go run a marathon. He [Read On]
This morning, I went for my last run before the Baltimore Marathon on Saturday. It was a solo run because it was raining and I didn’t want to take Zain out in this weather. I couldn’t decide between running 3 or 4 miles so I sort of split the difference and ran 3.6. At the [Read On]
Earlier this year, soon after starting this blog, I started training for my second marathon. I knew my marathon training was going to take me up to a 20 mile run. I had a goal in mind that I had really hoped to accomplish. My goal was to run 20 miles pushing Zain in [Read On]
You may be wondering, “what’s it like to run 20 miles?” I’m here to tell you. Running 20 miles can be a lot of things. It can be painful. It can be fun. It can be boring. It can be agonizing. It can be exciting. It can be torture. It can be epic. My 20 [Read On]
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