January - Check. Under 100 days - Check. Injury free still - Check.    Reflecting on this day last year I was 50 days away from my first marathon.  Today I am 82 days out from my second marathon.  I can tell you that both today, and this day last year, I am SO FREAKING NERVOUS.… Continue reading New Marathon, New Me.

You will never be completely at home again.  Because part of your heart will always be elsewhere.  That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. I have moved more than thirteen times in my life. I have lived in three different states.  And, I have family… Continue reading Running Home

"Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement."    All the people I look up to in this world are successful.  Whether that be successful with money or simply having a life full of love.  Successful with the people they surround themselves with or with the amount of happiness that exuberates from their personality… Continue reading Goal Digger!

"The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you." April 30th, 2016. 17 weeks. 115 days.  Spring marathon training has officially begun! Happy New Year! Happy everyone starts planning their fun and parties around my sleep schedule and long runs! Okay the last one, just joking. A girl can dream though right? Back up. 2016? Just… Continue reading Spring marathon training: do. not. freak. out.

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of "wow I'm not really sure I can do this" and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough. "     Something about the "new year, new me" saying always has… Continue reading “I Believe In Redefining My Impossible”

Long gone are the days of being eighteen years old but today, all statistics taken into account, my "body age" proved to be just that!! Insert singing, "I want to be forever young"!     I participated in a 45 minute evaluation which tested all aspects of strength and my vitals, then was processed through a system using polar technology. Disregarding any… Continue reading What’s Your Fitness Age?

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations.  Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams" -Meb Keflezighi    Hello 2nd marathon registration! Finally! They always say you need to "forget your last marathon before you try another because your mind can't know what's coming." … Continue reading Chasing the Unicorn!