What made me start blogging about my running life? Well, I’ve been running forever--at least that’s what it seems! I started with cross country in 4th grade, which was like one mile races or something. After a few years of that, my life revolved around cheerleading until high school when I was a sprinter for a couple of years. During high school I also grew to love fitness and was at the gym almost every day. I hated the cardio machines, though, so I mostly ran a couple of miles in place of the elliptical and stair master. A close friend who ran our local half marathon race persuaded me to try it out. I was like, “Yeah right, 13 miles? No way!” I finally gave it shot during college and soon, running 10 miles felt the same as what 3 miles felt like a few months earlier. I was hooked! And here I am, 10 years later, with 20 races under my belt. I am beyond excited to keep it up!
It was just about two and a half years ago that I decided to get more serious about my training and progress with my races. I have been working on increasing mileage and getting my pace faster all on my own until this past summer when I decided to start working with a coach. I will go more into my reasons for making this decision in another blog post, but basically I felt like my training was getting a bit monotonous and it was time to step it up and get advice from someone with more experience.
My training has pretty much become an addiction in a way because it takes up so much of my time and I can’t get enough! Since I log every run, every workout, and every feeling about my training, I decided I should just create a blog about it and share my progress. Maybe I can help motivate other runners out there trying to achieve similar goals!