It’s cold.  I don’t know if anyone has mentioned that to you lately. Or pretty much everyone you meet.  I mean, it’s kind of nice because it’s an instant way to bond. “Can you believe how cold it is?” “OMG so cold!” “Let’s all move to Florida!” At least, that’s how my conversations typically go.  […]

We are almost at 2018, and I’m hoping for a better year of running!  I mean, 2017 started out pretty strongly.  I ran a full marathon, even though I wasn’t feeling 100%, but it went downhill for awhile after that.  I ended up at the hospital rather than the finish line at the Hershey 10k […]

Merry Christmas!  Just because the holidays are here doesn’t mean that run training stops!  I worked hard this week to make sure I got all of my runs in, and I’m going to do the same next week.  It’s also fun because I often get new running gear for Christmas to try out.  I’ve already […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]