Seriously the Dublin Marathon has been on my radar since my early days of running. I can’t believe it’s FINALLY happening! Can’t wait to cross it off my bucket list!

Student to appear in ‘Good Morning America’ segment Sept. 15 | Quinnipiac University Connecticut

Someone from my alma mater will be a featured story about her 70 lb weight loss on GMA at 8:44am Saw it on social media and thought I would pass it along.

Made Fred a lookout perch so he can see out the windows!

Look at that!

I’m less nervous about my “peak” training week coming up of 40 miles (20 miler week) since I moved my long run from last weekend to this past Monday (Labor day), got in all my weekday runs, and did this past week’s long run yesterday.

Some people DRIVE less than 45 miles in a week!

Running weather

Today was perfect! I didn’t have to wake up early for the weather. 9:30am start. T’s new place is less than a mile from my beloved Mt Vernon Trail. I ran towards Mt Vernon and the closer I got to Mt Vernon the more beautiful it was. I shaved 14 min off my last “half marathon” with a time of 2:45:47! Finished the 16 in 3:25:15 aka a 12:50min/mile pace! 49/71

The tipping point

This morning as I was putting body glide on before my 8 miler I thought to myself: “My body is starting to look pretty good” as opposed to “I don’t look as fat.” As someone who has lost and gained the same 15lbs a few times over in the last 4 years it’s an important tipping point when I can validate my body. It’s been hard work, but I’m glad to be here!

Great art piece at the 9/11 Memorial Museum I visited in December. Artists painted squares of paper for each victim a perfect shade of blue just as the sky was on that day. #neverforget (at 9/11 Memorial WTC NYC)

Good Influence

T went on a 4 mile run with me yesterday. Generally he sticks to 3mi although his first race was the 5K we did in May.

As we wrapped up our run I asked him when the last time he ran more than 3 miles was and he said probably in the Marine Corps 10 years ago!

So today I get an email from Pacers (local running store) about the US National 12K in November right in Alexandria. I send T an email forwarding it and asking if he thinks he would be up for training for it. He replies 15 minutes later by forwarding me his registration confirmation.

I hate that he’s faster than me, but I love that he’s getting into running!

ASICS (アシックス, Ashikkusu)

is a Japanese athletic equipment company which produces footwear and sports equipment. The name is an acronym for the Latin phrase anima sana in corpore sano which translates as “a sound mind in a sound body”.

My coworker who like wins races (he’s 65+ but still, very known in the NoVa running community) told me today when I showed him a pic of my new shoes that ASICS was an acronym with a cool meaning which is also one of my mantras!

I must admit, sometimes when I’m running without music and hear some say that I have to keep myself from moving left, but when other people do it, it drives me nuts! That and the people who don’t understand the rules of trails/paths and they are walking like 3 across.