A journey through motherhood, running, and life.
Tuesday’s swim workout was tough. It was 2,800 LONG yards. It wasn’t a terribly hard workout on paper, but my arms were still {really} tired from Sunday evening’s 2 mile swim. I felt fatigued during the warm-up on Tuesday morning. The WARM-UP!! Not what you want to feel when you have 8x100yd repeats and then [...]
First, thank you SO much for all of your encouraging and supportive words on my last post – I’ve reread them over the last few days numerous times and they’ve helped put me back on the right track. Physically, I feel great. My legs were a little sore on Monday (not even 1/2 as sore [...]
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had some exciting news to share with you all…On Monday, my husband, both boys, and I will be heading down to Atlanta, GA, to spend the week working with Mizuno!!! A short time ago, I was contacted by Mizuno’s PR agency to see if I was [...]
I loved reading all your comments on yesterday’s post – glad to know that my husband and I are not the only ones who struggle with both fitting in working out daily. Ever have a day where everything seems to go your way? Yesterday was one of those days for me. Started with an amazing [...]
Don’t forget to enter the Garmin Forerunner 10 Giveaway! I saw a tweet last week from a new dad saying he was happy to be getting back on track with running post-baby. My first thought was along the lines of Post-Baby? You didn’t just have a baby!! But after letting his words sink in for a [...]
Hello friends! One of my good friends pointed out to me that my race calendar was severely outdated…so I took a few minutes and updated it. (The calendar can be found here.) The big/long races are definites. The smaller/shorter ones are still up in the air (5 miler on 4th of July, RW races, etc). I made the [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Google Reader is going away…if you’d like to continue to subscribe to NYC Running Mama you can do so by email (link on the right hand side of the page) or you can Follow my blog with Bloglovin. —————————- Last weekend’s NYC Half Marathon was the best executed race [...]
Don’t forget to enter the Ava and Liam Giveaway! ————————————– I like my marathon training cycles to be on the longer side – at least 16-18 weeks with my long runs beginning at 12-14 miles. One of the reasons is because it gives me a few extra buffer weeks in case I have to miss [...]
My youngest son will be 5 months old next week. He’s been scooting around in on his belly his crib for a few weeks now, but just last week really started moving (law-crawling) ALL over the place. It seems like the idea of getting from point a to point b has clicked in his head. He [...]
Please keep my beautiful friend, Sarah, and her family in your prayers. Her adorable 4 month old son, Jack, is undergoing surgery today. You can read about her son and what he’s going through here. ——————————————————- If you look at my marathon training plan, it’s a mix between being extremely detailed and very vague. The [...]
I thought it would be fun to share some pictures of our house now that it’s freshly painted and most of the moulding and other upgrades are finished. Technically our home is considered a rebuild, however, it’s really a new home. The previous owners left only one wall standing and rebuilt the entire house (and didn’t [...]
I’m excited for this post for many reasons. The first is that it should be a welcome change for all (5?) of my male readers! The second is that the runner is crazy fast and dropped 30+ min off his marathon PR time from his spring marathon to his fall marathon – he went from [...]
Yesterday’s workout – last hard run before Saturday’s 10k: 1 mile warmup: 8:41 pace 5k tempo: 6:40 pace (20:43) 1/2 mile cooldown: 8:17 pace I wanted to do a 5k today to practice running on tired legs to replicate what the second half of the 10k on Saturday will feel like. My legs were definitely [...]
This Saturday is my first race (where I’ll actually be racing for time) since I found out I was pregnant a year ago. I’m getting anxious, nervous, excited to race again. I’m running the Hot Chocolate 10k in Prospect Park. If I run a sub-42, I can apply for the Saucony Hurricane Team. I haven’t raced [...]
Mondays Workout: Rest Day – Giving my legs an extra rest day this week since I have a BIG 10k this weekend (more details later this week)! Fact: I am a competitive person with just about everything in life (sometimes over the silliest things). Like last weekend: My husband and I were putting together Thomas puzzles [...]
Erin O had a question from the previous post (Cold Weather Running). Does anyone have an answer for her? =) —————————————————- I have a goal pace (GP) that I try to stick to for all of my long runs. These GPs change week to week based on how I felt the week prior as well [...]
This past weekend was a cut-back long week. I follow the “build, build, build, easy” concept when it comes to my long runs. The last three weekends had been 10, 12, and 14…Saturday was supposed to be 8, but I decided to make it a speedy 6 and leave some extra miles for Sunday since [...]
If you are like me, then you know that hills suck when you are doing them. But they pay dividends on race day. My target race this spring is the NJ Marathon. Even though it’s a pancake flat course, I am incorporating some hill-specific workouts as well as general hill training into my training plan. [...]
I received a lot of positive feedback about the new PR Spotlight feature. I am SO excited at the wide range of runners that will be featured in the coming weeks!!! This week the spotlight is on Katie from MsFitRunner. I didn’t start reading her blog until a few months ago but am already [...]
I am signed up for the NJ Marathon on May 5. I was registered last year, but deferred (for free!) when I became pregnant. This IS my target race for the spring. It’s a flat, fast course and I have big dreams of running sub-3:10. This is ultimately what all of my training will [...]
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