I am ready for the summer temps to fade. I won’t lie. Running in this heat is no joke. Luckily I learned from my mistakes last summer when I trained for the Baltimore Run Festival Half Marathon, and I in spite of increasing my running efforts this summer, I have been healthier and happier with…
With another week under my belt, and only eight (8!) weeks to go until Marine Corps Marathon, I’m trying to stay true to a fairly challenging running regime. Sadly, I think the heat of the summer has finally gotten to me, and I find myself with very little energy in general, let alone enough to…
On a day when I had a very frustrating, uninspired run, one that I normally breeze through and feel confident with myself, a friend posted something on Facebook that I swear was written just for me (it wasn’t really, but somehow, she knew just what I needed to hear at that moment): It gets better.…
For whomever thinks that running is a cheap or inexpensive sport: think again. I mean, I guess it can be, but the way I seem to be doing it, well, let’s just say my credit card company loves my new hobby. My husband, not as much a fan. Checklist of running items that are…
I have a lot of questions about what my training actually looks like (not just the projected training plan that I posted last week), along with the questions of ‘how can you run that much?’ ‘What can you think about while running so many miles?’ and the inevitable ‘How do you feel after all this…
In just 11 weeks, I will be running the longest race of my life. It is something that I have been registered for since February, and yes, I have also been training for it since then. I’ve lost toe nails, suffered blisters, enjoyed fantastic runs, been discouraged, spent quality time with my husband on long…
Training for a marathon is a really big commitment. It takes about 4-6 months of time to properly train for the one day, the 4-5 hours of the actual race. I am kind of not wanting to know how many miles I will have run in preparation, nor do I want to add up how…
I seriously think that running is a sickness. The more I participate in the activity, the more I want to participate in the activity. Me! One who HATED running. And here I am, five half marathons in, two marathons and one half on the books for the fall (with another one possibly in January) and…
One of the most wonderful things about training for a marathon is that every mile I run can be used for a better purpose than simply helping me get ready for my 26.2 mi goal. Somehow (and I honestly don’t remember at this point), I came up on a free app for my phone: Charity…
I know we’ve had summer temps for well more than the past eight weeks, with the ‘real feel’ above 90-degrees, but summer REALLY is here. Yesterday was my first long run in 100+ real feel temps. It was 86 on the thermometer with 84% humidity. All that equates to a feel of 102 degrees. Yes,…
Robyn Runs the World 