What advice would you give to someone looking into running?
“Just keep at it!”, would be my #1 piece of advice. Running can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. Yesterday was an easy victory, today may be a battle to even finish a short run, but just keep at it! It is one of the things that makes it so rewarding.
I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via shrimpboating)
So, Paul has recently been put in charge of my sweet tooth. We don’t generally keep “sweets” in the house, but anything even remotely close, I will eat.
Upon buying a bag of my favorite treat outside of chocolate (pull and peel twizzlers), I asked him lovingly to hide them from me, and only allow me one per day.
Now, I realize how unfair it is to make him the “bad guy”. I’m a grown woman, I should have the sense of control to not binge on sweets… but this just isn’t the case.
So today while cleaning, what should I stumble upon, but the stash of sweets.
I immediately text Paul to let him know that security has been breached and the stash has been compromised, BUT, I am no where near a sweet tooth attack.
A few minutes later I decide that I will have just one twizzler… just one.
2 delicious bites in the high-fructose corn syrup beauty, I start to choke. Raw throat, eyes watering, spit up a half-chewed piece of gross, choke.
I have learned my lesson about unsupervised snacking.
Have you ever followed any sort of training plan? Which ones and how did you like them?
Yes! I would be completely lost without a training plan. For my first marathon I was training for (then got sick for 😦 goodbye $140) I used the Runner’s World training plan from their book “Marathoning For Mortals”, but for the last marathon and for my next one I am using Hal Higdons Intermediate training plan. I like it because it doesn’t include a required amount of hill or or fartleks. Though I think these are very necessary, I find this training plan to be effective and not intimidating.
This picture has nothing to do with running, but I love it.
Love this picture so much!
Thanks to an awesome fellow blogger, http://runningdetermined.tumblr.com/, I have discovered this amazing website called the Daily Mile where you can log all of your runs and build a network. I love the thought of the accountability. It is great motivation to get my last run in before my half marathon this weekend.
Check it out! http://www.dailymile.com/people/stephaniee18#ref=tophd
I need this!
Which I am taking as a clean slate, a starting off point for an even healthier, more active, lifestyle.
I have my best friend’s wedding in 2 months, and I want to be able to look at the pictures and not hate what I see (which has been the case for pretty much the last 2 years).
Not to mention the fact that marathon training is kicking into high gear, so I really need to get focused.
New month, new focus!
Show us a picture of your best “I’m a beast runner” runner face!
Well, here is my big ol’ head.
Me, all grossy-gross, but this is my best bad ass face. Nothing is better than a slight smile, especially while running.
Other times it is a full on grin 🙂
Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookies!
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This is one of those incredibly easy recipe where all you have to do is mix a handful of ingredients you can always have on hand and 15 minutes later you have a healthy tasty snack! You can try adding white chocolate chips, mini chocolate chips, chopped nuts or any combination to make it a more interesting cookie but I liked the simple brown sugar oatmeal taste.
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Just made these! So GOOD! Substituted coconut oil for the butter, and I have no doubt you can mix some protein powder in there, along with nuts or dried fruit 🙂
Adventures of S 