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Balancing Running and Mothering without Losing Your Mind

Balancing Running and Mothering without Losing Your Mind

Yes, running and balancing motherhood is challenging, not every run goes as planned and sometimes I have to cut runs short. BUT, I really believe that the benefits and the memories far surpass the effort it takes to juggle both…

What Training for a Marathon with a Toddler Looks Like

What Training for a Marathon with a Toddler Looks Like

This marathon training cycle took me through a lot of phases in my sons life. I started training in April, when he was only five months old. I ran the marathon only sixteen days after he turned 1 year old. Running through so much of 

What Training and Running a Marathon Taught Me about Running and Myself

What Training and Running a Marathon Taught Me about Running and Myself

It’s already been just shy of a week and a half since my first, full marathon and I am still riding those endorphins. Maybe since it’s 26.2 miles, the endorphins last for 26.2 days? Just a guess… 😉 As I was thinking about my marathon 

MARATHON Weekend Recap (This will probably be a long one…)

MARATHON Weekend Recap (This will probably be a long one…)

Hey guys and happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend, filled with all your favorite things. I am just coming off one of my highest ranking weekends of my life, my first marathon weekend! It seems so surreal, that after months of 

It’s MARATHON weekend + A Few things to Discuss with You Guys

It’s MARATHON weekend + A Few things to Discuss with You Guys

Well, I didn’t intend to take a few days off of blogging, but life happens. Benaiah is trying to drop down to one nap, which has thrown our schedule completely out the window…unfortunately for me, that means it’s a lot harder to fit in blogging, 

Final Long Run + Weekend Happenings

Final Long Run + Weekend Happenings

Hey, hey there friends and happy Monday! I am popping in a little later than usual thanks to some crazy, blog related issues. Thank goodness for tech support, otherwise I would have spent the entire day playing detective trying to figure out what went wrong 

Benaiah’s First Birthday, Celebrations Galore, and 12 Mile Runs

Benaiah’s First Birthday, Celebrations Galore, and 12 Mile Runs

Hey there friends! I hope you all had a fabulous, three day weekend. Ours was filled with celebrations, left and right as we took time to celebrate Benaiah’s birthday and Landon’s grandparent’s sixty-sixth wedding anniversary! I hope you have a steamy cup of coffee ready, 

10 Things I Do to Push Through Hard Runs

10 Things I Do to Push Through Hard Runs

Training for a marathon inventively means there will be numerous runs, long, short, easy and hard. I think that is actually one of the things I love about running – many times, running is unpredictable. During this training cycle alone, I’ve had many really good 

20 Miles + Anniversary Celebration

20 Miles + Anniversary Celebration

You know those Mondays that roll around and all you can focus on is downing one cup of coffee after another? Yeah, today is one of those Mondays. I am fairly confident that my tiredness today stems from another wild weekend. And although the weekend 

My Biggest Week of Training So Far, Marathon Training Week 15 Recap

My Biggest Week of Training So Far, Marathon Training Week 15 Recap

And just like that it is TAPER TIME. I really can’t believe that these eighteen weeks of marathon training are almost over. Part of me is super excited because that means the marathon is only a short, THREE WEEKS away, while another part of me