Day 26 – My favourite things to listen to when I run

There are a lot of running playlists floating around on the Internet so I wanted to share with you what I listen to when I run. The only thing is that it’s actually not music. When I am not running with the team I am usually plugged in to a good podcast.

Since I discovered podcasts earlier this year I have almost completely stopped listening to music. Weird, I know. If you aren’t familiar with podcasts, they are downloadable audio broadcasts, similar to a radio talk show, but without the awful ads and inane chit-chat. You can find a podcast on anything you could possibly be interested in like science, cooking, real crime, sports, comedy or news.

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Day 27 – Training-life balance

When setting goals and taking on new challenges in life, we all start out with the best intentions. But after you begin the training, or studying or planning required to reach your goal, it always seems that the process of getting there takes longer than we thought it would.

While I believe any goal worth having is one that requires a lot of time and effort, time can often be the biggest obstacle to success. As I touched on in my first post of my 30-day challenge – T-30 Days – a lack of time over the last seven months meant this blog suffered more than I wanted it to. Time forces us to prioritize and sometimes it forces us to change our expectations.

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Day 28 – The most hilarious thing I’ve ever read about running

It’s Sunday, and for my team that means it’s a rest day! Yayyy! So today I just wanted to share something a little lighter with you.

There are a lot of writers and artists out there who I admire for their ability to perfectly convey emotions through humour. So far that is what I have attempted to do through this blog but I know I have a long way to go to reach the wit I aspire to. One of those such artists I look up to is Matthew Inman.

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Day 29 – Long runs and rain storms

run_feetup_editAs one would expect, with marathon training comes long runs. And I mean loooong runs. Runs so long that even right before you start them you aren’t actually positive you will be able to finish. Runs so long that you have to eat actual food during the run so your body doesn’t totally shut down on you. Runs so long that my boyfriend could sleep in, make a full scrambled eggs and bacon breakfast, do a few loads of laundry and change the oil in his car all while I am STILL running. Theoretically, anyway…

But the funny thing about long runs is that as the training progresses, your concept of what a “long run” is changes over time. When I started the program, I would have probably told you an hour was a long run. Then that became two hours, then two and a half hours.

The other day when I was running with the team someone actually said, “Well our next long run is ONLY three hours.” To which we all happily nodded in agreement before the realization sunk in that we are all sick. Really, really sick.

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T-30 Days

Almost exactly seven months ago I set out to cross an item off my bucket list. I decided that I was going to attempt to run a marathon. At the time that goal seemed so far away, in more ways than one. It not only seemed like an almost impossible task given that I could hardly run for 30 minutes, but “eight months from now” just seemed like so many days, weeks and months away.

I began with very lofty goals for both my training and for this blog.

Originally I planned to blog twice a week, then it became once a week… then every two weeks. Eventually I was posting whenever I got something written. Oops.

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