marathon recap

This is it!  Marathon day!  I cannot believe that this day is finally here, and that i woke up 3am and was wide awake.  The race started at 7am, so our plan was to be to the start area by 6:15 in order to have time to stretch, use the bathrooms, and get in our [...]

the day before

We left bright and early saturday morning (nov. 21st) to make the trek down to Philadelphia for marathon weekend!  We woke up, packed up the car (who knew I would have 4 bags for a 1 week vacation?!), and hit the road!  The drive down was a breeze.  No traffic, and bright and sunny our [...]

time to carbo load

It is getting so close to marathon day!!  I am so excited, but so nervous as well.  I know that I can do this…I can finish.  I have trained so hard for this, I have given it everything that I have, so I feel more than prepared for this big day!  I have a goal [...]

2 weeks to go!

I cannot believe that I have less than 2 weeks until I am running the Philadelphia Marathon!!  I am kind of in shock, but am so excited (and nervous, of course, too!)  I have been training since July 20th, so it is crazy to think that we are only 2 weeks away.  The training is [...]

20 miles…check!

I woke up this morning and was psyched to get an early start on my last long training run due to daylight savings!  I jumped out of bed and quickly ate my breakfast of cinnamon toast and peanut butter to give it time to digest.  Once I was all geared up with my GU and [...]

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