Monthly Archives: February 2011

I Did It! : The Half Marathon

I still can’t believe it, but I did it! On Sunday morning, I woke up at 3:30 to start getting ready to take on one of the biggest personal challenges in recent memory. After waking the kids and having a very early morning birthday gift opening for my baby’s 4th birthday, we headed out the…

The Importance of Little Things

A couple of weeks ago, I went for a very long (to me) run and came home with about 18 blisters on my 10 toes. That’s not a very good ratio. I walked in the door, collapsed on the floor and begged my husband to take my shoes and socks off for me and look…

Facing Fear and Finding Joy

Last September, I decided it would be fun to run a 5K race. I had just come off a summer of being pretty active and so it felt right to try to regularly run again. I started slow, running a few days a week for 2 to 3 slow miles at a time. A month…

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