To fully appreciate what I’m about to delve into, you need to know that the Walt Disney World Marathon started at 6 am. Runners had to be there by 4 am. I’m guessing that means that volunteers had to be there no later than 2 am. Having been a marathon volunteer before, I know that […]
Author: Laura
Marathon FINISHER – man, that sounds good.
The marathon is over – hooray!! While I had severe knee problems and came in much slower than anticipated, I finished the marathon. I didn’t really expect to have anywhere near the problems that I did, and would have been really disappointed in my time, but I now realize just how big of an accomplishment […]
Marathon is upon us…
The countdown has made it to just one day and a few hours… I can’t decide if I’m terrified or excited. I’m ready to run the race just to be done with it at this point – it will be good for it to be over. On the other hand, though, I can’t stop thinking […]
Falling apart at 25…
So, I’ve had a really tough time with turning a quarter of a century old this year. I keep noticing things that I never would have thought twice about before… like wrinkles under my eyes that never used to be there. Or what I used to think was a freckle is now freaking me out […]
Honesty is the best policy…
What’s the deal with liars? I don’t understand how so many people feel that it’s worth it to put that much effort into a fabricated story that’s going to come unraveled in the long run. I’ve got some new folks working with me now, and I guess I took my very honest and ethical team […]
Runs and work and holidays, oh my!
So I’ve taken another extended leave of absence from my own blog. Between our long runs on the weekends, lots and lots of late nights at work, and all of my online time going to Christmas shopping, I haven’t hit my blog in a while. The runs are varying week to week – last weekend’s […]
Fiesta Fridays!
At the office, we’ve started having “Fiesta Friday.” One of my ECs and I came up with the idea about a month ago…. rather than taking a lunch away from the office on Friday afternoons, we decided to have Mexican food and play board games upstairs in a classroom for that hour instead. It’s turned […]
Long runs…
The marathon training is finally getting up into the double digits. Our long run this weekend was 10.5, which was a lot rougher than I remembered it being when we trained for the 1/2 marathon. Nothing really started hurting until about 7.5 miles in, but at that point there were still three miles to go. […]
Calibrating the Nike+
So, I finally broke down and calibrated my Nike+ after a year of running with it. I knew that it was a little off, because it always told me my runs were a little farther than I actually thought. After calibratign it, I found out that it’s been telling me that I was going 1.2 […]
Nike + plugin
So I’m trying to get a Nike+ plugin uploaded to my page here. Since we’re training for the Disney Marathon, I thought it’d be cool to load all of my stats onto the blog as well. Maybe it will help keep me motivated when I’m running if I know the handful of people reading this […]