For roughly 5 years between 2015-2020, I ran half marathons. Prior to that, I had run cross-country and track in high school but subsequently took a twenty-year running hiatus. When I took running back up, I remember realizing two important things: 1) I was not my younger self in many ways, and I personally would […]
Tag: Running
Sometimes Getting Better Isn’t Getting Faster
Today, I ran the Surf City Half Marathon and completed my fourth Beach Cities challenge. My time was a 2:07:52 with a 9:46/ mi pace. This was about 45 seconds slower than last year, and a little over 2 minutes slower than my best time on this course. I am notoriously bad at appreciating my […]
Blessings on My Day 1 (of Teaching)
Yesterday was my first day of teaching for the fall semester, my second day of Chinese class, and my third day of running (of my 11th week of training for the Long Beach Half Marathon). I had trouble sleeping, woke up early and read some discussion board posts before taking off on my run. After […]
Side-lined
I miss running. I haven’t been able to run in 19 days. I really shouldn’t have run for a few weeks before that, but I was training for the Surf City Half Marathon, and despite some nagging hip pain, I figured I could just push through it and finish the race, then rest a couple […]
Rest(oration)
I have historically been very poor at resting and allowing myself time to recover when I am ill, injured, or just not at my best. Yesterday, I ran the Surf City Half Marathon. I started the race injured. I had some nagging quad soreness that would not go away, and had trained through it (instead […]
Mile 11
Most people who know me (in real life) know that I am a runner. Three years ago, about 8 months after my daughter was born, I began training for my first half marathon. In October, I finished my 9th half marathon and my first under 2 hours. While I haven’t been running for the past […]
New Semester Resolutions
Yes, it’s the end of January, but my life seems to be driven more by the academic calendar than the calendar year, so it seems like this resolutions post comes just in time. In writing this post (and making sure that I hadn’t already written a New Year’s Resolution post because it’s 3 weeks into […]
Running the Race…
I am a runner. 2 years ago if someone had told me that I would ever utter the statement, “I am a runner,” I would have laughed at them. I would have said, “Well, I used to run, in a past laugh, in high school, but I haven’t really run in years.” Through a friend, I […]