Race Report: 5th Avenue Mile

I came back from recovery with the crazy goal of PRing in every distance from 1 mile to the marathon by the end of the year. After this weekend, I can proudly say I’m one step closer. Sunday dawned with clear skies, a welcome contrast from the forecast for the day at the start of … Continue reading Race Report: 5th Avenue Mile

Philly Training: Week 8

This week, I came back from vacation and crashing back to reality with a lingering cold and some nasty jetlag to boot. With my body feeling pretty run down, I made all sorts of modifications to my training plan, including replacing the workouts I had scheduled with the same number of “general aerobic” miles (a … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 8

Philly Training: Week 7 (Vacation edition!)

Well…this was an eventfully week and far from the typical training week thanks to some 200 miles of biking from Vienna to Budapest! I posted my last training recap the day I was scheduled to fly off to Vienna, where the boyfriend and I would begin a self-guided cycling adventure across three countries in six … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 7 (Vacation edition!)

Philly Training: Week 6

It’s double the fun with race-week recaps this week. With vacation looming (and my long run already done!), I figured I better get this post up before I get lazy and skip it. I’m not going to lie, last week took it out of me. Two workouts and a long run with 10 miles at … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 6

Philly Training: Week 5

Last week marked my hardest week of training yet. It definitely left me tired, but feeling a lot stronger. During the week, I squeezed in two tempo workouts and a long run with a significant portion at marathon pace. Mix in an overall lack of sleep over the weekend, and I’m definitely ready for this … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 5

Philly Training: Week 4

It’s the point in my training when I’ve been running enough miles, and more importantly, enough hard miles, to lead to niggles and fatigue here and that. The fatigue has subsided a bit since I became more consistent in taking my iron supplements, the niggles, though, are harder to deal with. One of the weirder … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 4

Philly Training: Week 3

I can’t believe I’m already one-sixth of the way through training! It simultaneously feels like this training cycle is going by so fast…and yet so slow. 15 weeks is still a very long time. And, to be honest, I’m already starting to feel it a little bit. I’ve been so tired for the past week. … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 3

Philly Training: Week 2

I’ve really slacked off this week! I should have had this post up on Monday…but I got lazy. I don’t even have a good excuse for it. To get down to it, the second week of training went well, despite the need to rearrange some things because of a bachelorette party and a failed alarm … Continue reading Philly Training: Week 2

The 21-Day Fix, Results

Well, the 21-Day Fix is over and my results are in, and they aren’t bad. Not fantastic, but I’ll take them given how many bad days I managed to pack in over 21 days. All in, I lost 2 lbs and 3.5 inches (0.75 in. at my waist and hips, 0.75 in. in my thighs, … Continue reading The 21-Day Fix, Results

21-Day Fix, Week 2

Well, week two of the 21-Day Fix was significantly better than the first week, but it still wasn't perfect. I had one cheat afternoon this week, a significant improvement over last week's 2.5 bad days. I stuck to my eating plan Monday through Friday last week, through lunch on Saturday, and all day on Sunday. All … Continue reading 21-Day Fix, Week 2