Category Running

Global Running Day

It’s 1.5 miles if you hook a left out of my driveway, take a left at the next street you come to, turn around at the cul de sac and come back down my road. There are exactly three hills…

Running Frantic

My friend and years-long running partner, Leigh, and I coined a phrase one cold Saturday morning as we ran intervals along the American Tobacco Trail here in North Carolina. We called it “frantic running.” A safe word of sorts, it…

Circus, Circus

Walking down the Las Vegas strip, Leigh points to the blue and red colored steeples of the Camelot Hotel & Casino. “That’s what I thought I was booking when I made our reservations,” she said. I guess somewhere along the…

Hawaii Half-Marathon

We picked Hawaii for our honeymoon destination because of a half-marathon. You may think I’m exaggerating, but I googled half-marathons in Hawaii as soon as the islands came out of my fiance’s mouth as an option. As luck would have…

Race Recap: Historic Hillsborough Half

Yesterday morning I completed my second Historic Hillsborough Half. The weather was chilly at the start and warmed up to a perfect 56 degrees by the finish. I smiled for all 13.1 miles and trained for only like 2 of…

Ultra.

The sun was directly above us, and there wasn’t a cloud in sight. We were on mile 16 of a 31-mile quest to complete our first 50K. Leigh was doing her best to perk me up, but I was on…

I may not make it to Boston & that’s okay

I ran two miles today, and they sucked. There are plenty of reasons why those two miles weren’t very much fun. I ran in the middle of the day when the sun blazed, and the asphalt temperature crept up with…

Because Normal Isn’t Good Enough

The moments leading up to the Not So Normal ¾ Marathon on Sunday morning were filled with panic and anxiety. You see, I registered for this race because I thought boredom was the reason I didn’t stick to a training…