As I head into my last long distance run this weekend before I start tapering, I can’t help but think of five things I am excited about for the Iron Girl event. First and foremost I am super excited to being running this event with two special people, Sam, one third of my best friends … More What I am looking forward to at Iron Girl
Week 2 is in the books! I don’t know about all of you, but the time change seriously had me thrown off last week. What was a typically 5am alarm to get my run in before work, was a 4am alarm internally, and my body has made sure to let me know around 3pm. Lol. … More Iron Girl Training Recap: Week 2
Well, last weekend I took the plunge and registered for Iron Girl Clearwater! This was my first ever half marathon and here I am returning to the event as my fourth half in a year! Those bridges are a beast so I am hoping to include more inclining training this time around. I would love … More Iron Girl Training Recap: Week 1
On New Years day my friend Sam and I went over to Fit2Run to look into some new shoes. Since I am doing the Glass Slipper Challenge, I’ve read many blog posts from past runners who advise to have two pairs of shoes for race weekend. One reason being to give your feet a break … More New Year, New Shoes.
Well folks, The Runner Within has been live for a whole year now! It’s crazy how much my blog has grown this last year. I originally created this blog to document my journey in training and accumulating several milestones in running various distances leading up to my first half marathon. This blog also served as … More Happy Birthday The Runner Within!
Ok, first off, let me start by saying I am a few days late posting this due to the holiday, but I don’t think any of you were sitting around waiting on this post 😉 Any who back on to topic…. Welcome to the last edition of “Let’s Talk Training Thursday” for 2014! This week … More Let’s Talk Training Thursday: Evaluating Your Race Performance
2014 has been a memorable year for me in just running alone! I completed my first 10K, first 15K, first half, PR’d my 5K time and completed my second half with a PR! Today, I am teaming up with several wonderful ladies from the Girls Gone Sporty crew for an end of the year link … More 2014: My Year in Running
The organizers of the Best Damn Race series held the inaugural Best Damn Race Cape Coral on Sunday. This was my first out-of-town race experience. I was joined on this venture by my friend Sam, who was running the half as well and it was her first half at that! Sam, our friend Danny and … More Race Recap: Best Damn Race Cape Coral
This past Thursday I was informed that the Women’s Running Series had to postpone all future scheduled race until further notice, including the St. Petersburg Half Marathon and 5K. I first received the notice on the Best Damn Race’s Facebook page, believing there may have been a mistake and there was another Women’s race scheduled … More Women’s Running Series Race Postponed
For the past couple of years, I stood on along the sidelines cheering my sister on as she continuously participated in half-marathon after half-marathon. Every time, I could not wrap my head around running 13.1 miles till one day I got bored with running the simple 5k distance and craved more mileage. Next thing I … More Race Recap: Iron Girl Half Marathon