The decision to DNS a marathon

Posted on June 4, 2015 | 6 min read time

How I feel while writing this I haven’t really posted about it here yet, but my training for Grandma’s Marathon has completely fallen apart. I don’t know exactly what caused it, but it’s gotten really bad. When I say bad, I mean I’ve been heavily considering DNSing (did not start) the race for the last couple of weeks. Yeah, that kind of bad. [Read More]

Grandma's Marathon training update: week 8

Posted on April 28, 2015 | 2 min read time

Love the view on my regular running route! Training for Grandma’s Marathon is half over already. It’s starting to feel like the race is like a freight train coming at me! Training is going well overall, but I don’t know if I’m ever going to feel ready for this race. Even when I have an amazing run and hit mile splits I didn’t think I could hit, I still feel afraid I won’t be able to keep the pace I want for the race. [Read More]

Asbury Park Half Marathon - 1:48:11

Posted on April 20, 2015 | 6 min read time

Ignore the nail polish situation here. It came off as soon as I got home. Oddly, before Saturday, I hadn’t _raced_ a half marathon in three years. Yes, THREE! I’ve run four half marathons (raced two of them) in that period of time, but the last half marathon I did outside of Disney World or Disneyland and wasn’t just for fun was three years ago, April 2012. [Read More]

Grandma's Marathon training: Weeks 1-4

Posted on March 30, 2015 | 3 min read time

I finally have a new profile pic on Twitter and Tumblr! Sheesh, I really don’t post here much anymore, do I? Work has been keeping me super busy, but I’m not actually complaining about that. I kind of like it. So it’s now one quarter of the way through training for Grandma’s Marathon. I feel like training is flying by so far! I’ve converted fully to a morning runner during the week and an afternoon runner on the weekends. [Read More]

I was followed

Posted on March 17, 2015 | 6 min read time

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece over at RunHaven about what it’s like to run as a woman vs as a man when it comes to being harassed and worrying about your safety. Being transgender, I feel like I’m in a pretty good place to be able to describe how different running can feel out there depending on your gender. As I do with most of the things I write and am proud of, I posted the piece on Reddit. [Read More]

Treadmill, what?

Posted on March 2, 2015 | 4 min read time

If you’ve talked about running with me for more than six seconds, you likely know how I feel about the treadmill. Basically, fuck that noise. It’s boring and annoying and harder than outside and you have to actually go somewhere (yet never actually go anywhere) and yeah. It just sucks. It’s no fun and it takes away almost everything I love about running. BUT! I’m not setting out to write another anti-dreadmill thing. [Read More]

2015 Walt Disney World Goofy Challenge

Posted on January 19, 2015 | 14 min read time

I can’t remember the last time I was this unprepared to run a race. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever been this unprepared, to be honest. Since early July, the longest I had run had been 13.1 miles. For months, I’d run anywhere from 10 to 25 miles a week and recently I started throwing in spin class once a week. That’s just enough to be prepared for a half marathon, but not enough to actually earn a solid time. [Read More]