I’ve done the Princess races for the past 4 years, and it wasn’t until this year that I really had trouble with training during the holidays. I’m extra impressed with myself for doing marathon training last December. Good job me! I think part of it is that I’ve never done a play before that had […]
Training tips for the Princess Half Marathon
February 2018 will be my 4th time running the Princess Half Marathon (and the challenge!), and I’ve done a number of other half marathons, 10ks, 5ks, and other various distances – including the full marathon. A lot of people do Princess as their first half marathon, and I think it’s a perfect choice for your […]
Fairy Tale Challenge training – week 7
This unfortunately ended up being a bit of a rough week for me. I blew my run streak that I was going for (to run every day between Thanksgiving and New Year’s). I was good until Thursday, when I did not run. Thursday I woke up with a lot of pain in my left side […]
Fairy tale challenge training – week 6
In terms of training, it was a pretty typical, straight forward week. So I figured I’d take this time to tell you a little bit about what else I’m planning for the Fairy Tale Challenge! Which, of course, means costumes. I already have my costume for the 10k pretty much put together. I’m running with […]
Fairy Tale Challenge training – week 5
It was a pretty good week of running! Two of my training runs this week were on Long Island since I’ve been home visiting family for Long Island. It’s always nice to be able to run in a different place and change up the scenery a little bit. Physical therapy continues, and the exercises I’m […]
Fairy tale challenge training – week 4
You know how they say sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better? I think that must be true for physical therapy, because in many ways I felt much more sore throughout this week than the previous couple of weeks. However, it was (mostly) the “good” kind of sore from stretching and […]
Fairy Tale Challenge training – week 3
After a hiatus from running, and the various pains and fears I’ve had about, I was really excited to get back into the swing of things this week. I’m no doubt slower than I was a year ago, and I am still feeling pain when I run – but we’re working on it and I’m […]
Fairy Tale Challenge training – week 2
“Hey, did I miss week 1?” That’s probably what you’re saying if you’re one of my rare followers who reads all of my posts and realizes I’m starting my training updates a week late. So you didn’t miss it, I did. And in fact I basically missed week 2 as well, but I’ve got a […]
WDW marathon training – week 27
This is it – the last week of marathon training. I did in fact skip week 26 last week. I think I got one short run in. But with the holidays and going back and forth to the vet all the time with Merlin, I just didn’t have the time. I still got some walking […]
Marathon training:
I doubt anyone has been following my marathon training all that closely, but if you did you would have noticed that I didn’t really post about it the last two weeks. The reason for that was that my ankle was hurting after the 23 mile run. I decided to rest it as much as possible. […]