I get by with a little help from my friends

I have been on a running and blogging hiatus for the last week. Since writing last Tuesday after the race, I needed to stop running, thinking about running, thinking my marathon. It was a good break. I spent a wonderful, totally atypical day this past Saturday in my pajamas. That’s right, all day. I slept […]

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Sometimes, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles

I started running after college to fill the void of no longer playing competitive teams sports. A volleyball player thought high school and college, I kind of thrive on a training schedule, competition and athletic goals. For the same reasons, I think I have come to love running – both the activity itself and the […]

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The home stretch

Next week at this time, I will be hopefully crawling into bed, anticipating a 4:00am wake up that will begin the day I have been working towards for the last several months. It seems crazy that once upon a time I was counting weeks, and even months until the marathon and now it is just […]

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Some rest and reflection

Following last week’s 23 miler, I packed a suitcase full of shorts, tank tops and swim suits and boarded a plane at 6:00am Sunday morning that would lead me to the Caribbean for a sunny, 6-day vacation. The trip was everything I hoped it would be – warm, sunny and relaxing. I woke up each […]

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Dress Rehearsal

Today’s long run was the closest to a dress rehearsal for Boston as I am going to get. I met the members of the Run for the Memory team at the top of Heartbreak Hill and drove out to Hopkinton. The plan was to run 23 miles today. An extra bonus was the surprise visit […]

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