Welcome to week 5 of our Marathon Training Blog series! Click here to read week 1! Week 5: Monday: REST!-Check.Tuesday: 4 miles in 43m, 54s with an average of 10:59 min/mi. We're now up to 4 miles on our weekday runs. This means waking up at 4:45 to run instead of 5:00. It means running at… Continue reading Marathon Training Blog, Week 5
Welcome to week 4 of our Marathon Training Blog series! Click here to read week 1! Week 4: Monday: REST! Tuesday: 3 miles in 31m, 8s with an average of 10:23 min/mi. I'll be honest... I'm writing this over a week later and I can't remember anything about this run other than it was at the… Continue reading Marathon Training Blog, Week 4
July 4, 2015 I have never proud of a grocery list before, but this took a solid week of prayer, rest, and practice to be able to write legibly again. It's not pretty, but it's a VAST improvement from Monday. It’s so surreal to see this. I remember this literally took me 20 mins to… Continue reading Independence Day
I love summer. For so many reasons. The sun, the warm weather. Swimming. But most of all, I love the fresh produce at incredibly cheap prices! The best is when friends or neighbors share the bounty of their gardens, but we love visiting the farmers market or getting local fruits and veggies at our grocery… Continue reading Fruit Bowl
Welcome to week 3 of our Marathon Training Blog series! Click here to start with the first week. Week 3: Monday: REST! We're pros at resting. We can rest like nobody's business. Tuesday: 3 miles in 31m, 15s with an average of 10:25 min/mi. We ran at the gym because we're trying to save me from some… Continue reading Marathon Training Blog, Week 3
Does anyone else love scrolling through the "Memories" posts on Facebook? It's usually how I start every morning and love seeing what we did as a family years ago. 2 years ago yesterday on June 20, 2016, my husband and I decided to go hiking. For the first time. One kid was at camp and… Continue reading It’s all an adventure . . .
Last week, I began a new series where we will document our Marathon Training. Let me know if you enjoy reading these! Here's the blog for week 2! Week 2: Monday: REST! It's the most favorite day of the week! The past two weekends have been crazy at our house with birthdays and parties and… Continue reading Marathon Training Blog, Week 2
Our official Marathon Training Plan kicked off on Monday, June 4. This is a 20-week plan that I got from somewhere I can't remember and then tweaked to make it our own. I can tell you now, we won't be 100% successful at executing all of this. There will be bad days. There may be… Continue reading Marathon Training Blog, Week 1
Saturday was the most perfect day. It was just the core four. My people. My son who's about to turn 21 and my daughter who's about to turn 13 and my amazing husband and me. We ran around an amusement park like little kids. We rode our favorite roller coaster three times. Twice in the… Continue reading Party of four
Today is World MS Day And this year's theme is #bringinguscloser. A bad diagnosis can mean depression. If can mean loneliness. If can mean a change or loss of friendships as priorities change. Something I never anticipated when I was diagnosed almost three years ago was just how close I became with my best friends… Continue reading Bringing us closer…
Not Today, MS 