Richmond Training #2

Richmond Training - Week 2

Taking a page from Tracy's book, I'm not calling my training recaps "Sunday Sweats"...because they will probably never get updated on a Sunday.

Week 2 long run: ✔️ ! This weather today is everything 😍 Even after waking up later than I wanted, the awesome temps and almost non existent humidity let me push through to 6 miles. Richmond training is off to a pretty good start ! . . . #running #training #halfmarathon #13point1 #runrdu #runlikeagirl #fitsnap #raleigh #umstead

A photo posted by Lisa Marie 💀 (@lisamdee) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:39am PDT

Sunday Sweats (on Monday) #1

If I put my weekly training recap up on Monday, can they still be Sunday Sweats ? I say yes, since it's my blog and I do what I want !

Richmond Training - Week 1

This week was my first official week of Richmond Half Marathon training.  Because, um...oops.  I decided to do a half.  Blame Alyssa.

Twenty-Nine

I turned 29 years old on Saturday.  For the first time in 4 years, I was able to travel home and spend my actual day of birth with my family and friends in the house and town I grew up in.  My heart is just so full from this weekend.

Training for Tuesday - Spring 2016

With a finish time of 2:02:37, I've wrapped up my spring race season. 33.1 miles (23.1 of which were the hilliest I've ever run) between 4/2 and 4/23. I think I've earned a nice long break from racing (well, until the fall anyway) ! 👟🏁🏅#running #runrdu #runlikeagirl #tarheel10miler #runhappy #10miler @tarheel10miler

A photo posted by Lisa Marie 💀 (@lisamdee) on Apr 23, 2016 at 2:55pm PDT

Rock N Roll Raleigh - Race Recap

My DC Weekend - Cherry Blossom 10 Miler

This past weekend was the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Miler in Washington, DC where I got to see Alyssa & Tracy and run an awesome race in a pretty rad city.

What a great weekend with amazing people. 10/10 would do it all again ! After the race, @briandouglas138 and I got to hang around the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Air and Space Museum. Our step count ended up totaling 20 miles for the day !! 🇺🇸❤️🏁👟🌸 #cherryblossom10miler #cherryblossom #washingtonmonument #smithsonian #washingtonDC

A photo posted by Lisa Marie 💀 (@lisamdee) on Apr 3, 2016 at 4:46pm PDT

Weekending - Not Long Enough

Growing up is the bane of my existence and I think that's why I enjoy the weekend so much - no work responsibility.  I'm much happier and more myself when I'm NOT at my job.  It's sad but also let's me go "Okay, I'm not on the clock, I don't have to be that person anymore." I have this weird rule for myself that I won't write when I'm in a bad mood, not because I don't have anything constructive to say, I just don't want to rely on this space as a venting, angry, teen-angsty diary type thing. And since I feel myself slipping into that place as the work week kicks off, I figured it would be better to focus on all the awesome from the shorter than normal weekend.

You're a Slacker, McFly

I'm not a fan of seasonal depression.  Obviously no one is, but I feel like I'm a prisoner in my own head because I'm all "THERE ARE SO MANY AMAZING THINGS I WANT TO DO" but in reality, I only have enough energy to watch Netflix.  I've had zero motivation or desire to train for races and have just slacked off of life in general.

HOWEVER ! I know this is a problem for me so whenever I can, I've been really pushing myself.  Taking Barre classes has been the BIGGEST help.  Without realizing it, I've been working towards trying to be healthier (I'm super nervous writing about this because I'm afraid my brain will realize what I've been doing and sabotage my progress !) and just taking the good with the bad.

Spring Race Countown

I've been absent from the blogging world for some time but I wanted to make sure I came back for Training for Tuesday !

RIP David Bowie

I've missed you all ! Happy New Year and hello to my first post of 2016 !

I will not be recapping 2015.  Goodbye and good riddance.  While I'm thankful that 2015 showed me that I am a hell of a lot stronger than I ever thought possible, I'm ready to rock 2016.

[RIP David Bowie.]