Hi all! It's been awhile. First, an update from March/April: the weather was all over the place, I ran a half marathon, I ran a 10k, and I started training for...it's a surprise! Read on. 🙂 First of all, the weather. It has been insane. Between tons of rain, many days that were very warm, followed …
Author: anacademicathlete
February Recap
Hello all! I've been out for awhile, because it has been an insane month. I know I keep trying to recommit to blogging regularly, but when I have to cut something, it seems to be the first to go. I have still been reading everyone's blogs and working out though, so I'm not a total …
Training Tuesday
Hello again! I am going to start posting training recaps on Tuesdays--mostly because alliteration makes me happy, but also because Mondays are typically fairly open, so I shouldn't have issues getting a post out by Tuesday morning. This first post will be kind of intense because I want to update you on the first six …
2017 Goals
Hello all! Ok, I know we're almost done with January, so a 2017 goals post isn't really appropriate, but I'm doing it anyway. I obviously haven't been making blogging a priority, so while I'm still reading blogs every morning, I haven't written anything down in months. 😮 That is going to change! I am in …
Turkey Trot
Hello! How did everyone's Thanksgiving go? We went to three Thanksgiving meals, plus two Friendsgivings over the past couple weeks, so we certainly got our fair share of the delicious Thanksgiving foods. My parents always host Thanksgiving, but this year they decided to hold it on Saturday instead of Thursday because more people were able …
Trail 15k
Hello everyone! Sorry I've been offline for a few weeks...I've been keeping up with everyone's blogs, but I haven't been running too much, so I haven't felt like I had much to say. I realized that I haven't updated everyone on my most recent race though! Two weeks after the marathon was a half marathon …
Chicago Marathon!
Goals A: 4:30 B: sub 5:00 C: Cross that finish line Training Most of you have probably been following along with my training, but basically I followed Hal Higdon's Intermediate 1 plan. I followed the plan very closely, only missing one run, and cutting a couple others a little short. I did two 20 mile runs …
Marathon Update: Less Than One Week to Go
I am so close to my first marathon ever! I started to write this post on Monday, but I'm not sure what happened. I should have plenty of time on my hands since I'm not running that much. 🙂 Onto a quick recap of last week--sorry for the lack of pictures, I don't know what …
Ragnar Trail Northwoods
Buckle in, kiddos, this is a long one. I started writing this trying to keep it short and sweet, but it got a little out of hand. I tried to put subtitles so you can feel free to jump around to sections you're interested in, or just look at the pictures. 🙂 For those of …
Marathon Monday: Week 16
Week 16 is over which means I am less than 2 weeks from my first marathon! It's it so interesting how time sometimes feels like it is moving in slow motion, but looking back, it always seems like it flew right by. I remember starting this training plan and not being able to imagine completing …
