New Jersey Marathon training update: week 10 and Shamrock Marathon weekend

Posted on March 18, 2014 | 6 min read time

Last week was supposed to be the week I got back to running six days a week and got myself fully on schedule again after my knee issues. Unfortunately, my knee still didn’t feel up to it on Monday so I ended up with just five days of running instead. On Tuesday, I threw 5x1’ fartleks into my eight mile run for my first bit of speed work in a while. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: week 9 (and other things)

Posted on March 10, 2014 | 8 min read time

WHAT A WEEK! Holy crap, last week was busy as hell! Monday I started off with a rest day on Monday. I had five miles on the schedule, but I wanted to give my knee an extra rest day after 29 miles across the previous three days. The plan was to get back to my training plan on Tuesday, but without the speed work, which I would start back up with again this week. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training update: Week 8

Posted on March 3, 2014 | 5 min read time

I took my seventh pair of New Balance 1600s out for their first run this week. Can you tell I like these shoes? I think I might be turning this thing around! I started the week off really down about training. I was still in pain and close to writing it all off and changing my plans. Still, I kept with what I had been doing to recover and brought my mileage up a little while still staying under what was scheduled. [Read More]

It's time for me to admit this: I am not a smart runner

Posted on February 26, 2014 | 8 min read time

Like, just look at my knees! I come from a family of calamities. There’s always some injury or illness or something going on with my mother, father, and brother. Shattered pelvis, MRSA, severed fingertip, heart attack, broken toe…the list goes on and on. It’s actually a big joke in our family, but it does make my heart start to pound every time I see one of my parents’ phone numbers pop up on my phone. [Read More]

I now proudly and forever display being a transgender marathoner on my wrist

Posted on February 25, 2014 | 3 min read time

By the time I got to the last two years of high school, most of people in my main circle of friends were all about tattoos. I guess that’s normal when you spend most of your time with the punk and indie underground kids. I had a few tattoos that I wanted too, but I never went through with anything. Throughout high school, college, and my post college years, I was stopped from getting tattoos by one single question, “if I was a woman, would I want this on my body? [Read More]

New Jersey Marthon training update: week 7

Posted on February 24, 2014 | 1 min read time

Tank top and shorts! Also, lots of crap on my knees. Week seven of training was a complete wash. It was planned to be a step-back week to 42 miles, but I stepped it all the way down to just 23 miles. My knee is still a mess and three straight rest days to start the week didn’t seem to make a difference. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training: week 6

Posted on February 18, 2014 | 3 min read time

Week six of training was kind of a disappointment. I started off the week with an unplanned rest day on Monday. I had five miles planned, but I felt like it was better to give my knee the day off. For the middle of the week I stuck to my schedule, even though there was yet more snow. We got another foot or so of the white stuff going into Thursday morning so my run was a bit of a mess. [Read More]