Yoga Pants Life

As I’m getting myself back on the training track for the Chicago Marathon, I’ve realized that in order to maintain sanity and my running confidence, I need to rethink my original goals for the marathon. I’m not sure I ever had hard-core goals (guess I should go back and re-read…

So, yeah, pretty much skipped right over my 2nd and now 3rd month of marathon training. I started this blog to talk about my marathon training and life adventures and I can’t bring myself to talk about them right now. I’m struggling. Big time. At first, I thought the problem…

I know I keep saying how fast time is flying by, but seriously, it’s hard to believe that the first month of training is over. I have so many mixed emotions about the whole thing. One day I feel like I can take on the world and the training process…

Time is flying by so quickly! I feel like I hit ‘publish’ and the next week passes by before I can write another blog post. Luckily, my blog isn’t that riveting, so it’s not like anyone is missing much with my sporadic posting schedule. I believe I left off midway…

**I just posted and re-read my entry. This is probably one of the most choppy, shittastic things I’ve published on this blog. I’m tired, cranky and just need to have a record of my runs. Clearly, I won’t be winning any writing awards anytime in the near future. I’ll survive.…

Week 1 Oy vey! I felt like I was off to a strong start in week one. Despite coming back from injury and dealing with dental issues, I got through nearly all of my runs (three 2.5-3 mile runs and a 6 mile long run.) The only one I missed…

The official 18 week training plan for the Chicago Marathon started yesterday. That’s right! No more pre-training/base-training – I’m in full-on training mode right now. Part of me is terrified and wondering if I can actually pull this off, and part of me is beyond excited to dive in and…

You guys, it’s May 1st. MAY. How did we get to May???!!!! Wasn’t I just chugging champagne on New Years Day? I used to HATE it when my dad would tell me how fast life went as an adult. When you’re a kid everything just drags by so slowly. It…

As usual, I feel like I have a million ideas floating around in my head of things I want to write about – my pre-marathon training, strength training, my new-found frugality that’s a work in progress, my kitchen adventures, etc. But when I finally get around to booting up my…

This is the seventh post I’ve started in the last ten days. I’ve been feeling very ‘meh’ lately…not good, not bad, just kind of here. I can’t even bring myself to post my ‘weekly recap’ because nothing has really changed in the last few weeks. I came so, SO close…