Tag: running
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2017 Retrospective: The Year I Pushed My Boundaries
2017 was a fun, interesting, wacky, bumpy year. By the numbers (even though the year isn’t over yet)… 28 races 3 marathons 16 half marathons 1 10Ks 8 5Ks Total distance ran: 786.9 miles Of that distance, race miles: 319.2 miles Average pace: 15:01 min/mile (yup! run/walk…) 148 runs 89,543 calories burned 42,739 ft elevation…
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Race Recap: Rock n Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon 2017
Rock n Roll Las Vegas has been one of my favorite races on the tour for awhile. It’s been a few years since I’ve been able to come back to run this city. Each time I’ve been back, it’s always found me at a particularly dramatic time in my life. This time, I’d say that…
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Race Recap: Rock n Roll Los Angeles 2017 Half Marathon
For my 13th race, I headed back to the city that started it all: Los Angeles. It was a bittersweet race that brought back a flood of memories, both good and bad. Being a Halloween race, I also decided to run in a race costume. This race wrapped up a pretty busy month: San Jose,…
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Race Recap: Rock n Roll Denver Remix Challenge 2017
This was the second time I’ve ran the Rock n Roll Denver. It was very much a different experience running this city, now that we’re going on our third year here, and now that we’ve been heavily training for races for at least two years here. Although still not familiar, they certainly didn’t seem as…
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Race Recap: Rock n Roll San Jose Half Marathon 2017
On the heels of Paris came our next race…San Jose! I had planned on doing the Remix Challenge, but that short work-week returning from Paris was pretty rough on me. I felt like I had been coming down from a cold, especially with all the exhaustion from the race and traveling. Somewhere in between flying…
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Race Recap: Disneyland Paris Half Marathon 2017
Every mile is magic, especially when you run them inside of a Disney park! This run took me all the way to Disneyland Paris. The week leading up to the race I’ve began noticing some changes – a lot of mood swings, overall anxiety, particularly high irritability about everything. I don’t think it had anything…
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Race Recap: Rock n Roll Philadelphia Remix Challenge 2017
When I first started running Rock n Roll races, I remember seeing the Hall of Fame status set at 10 races. I remember wondering to myself how someone could have the stamina and the means to accomplish 10 half marathons, let alone find the time to travel to different races around the country or the…
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Race Recap: Rock n Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon 2017
Soooo…Virginia Beach. That was an interesting trip! We cashed in all of our miles to book this birthday trip for Erik, which fell during Labor Day weekend and during the Great American Music Festival. To keep things affordable, we flew into Washington DC and decided to drive to Virginia Beach. A road trip would be…
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Race Recap: Run for Totality Half Marathon 2017
A month or so ago, I was researching some places to view the total solar eclipse that was passing through the country. One of my best friends mentioned a long time ago that he was interested in going to Jackson for a viewing party. When considering the map, I was pretty sure that everything west…
Amara in Training 