100 Times Over
Hello...it's me... *sung to Adele*
A month or so later, my mom and I completed our first race together at the Red Dress Run in West Hartford.
After that race, I went back down to school and decided I wanted to run 100 races in my lifetime. I honestly thought hitting 100 races would take 37 lifetimes but I knew it would keep me motivated to keep running.
Each year that passed I was doing more races than the year before. I went from running around 8 races a year to running over 15 races a year with the last 2 years running over 20 races a year.
When my mom completed her first half-marathon in 2011, I remember telling her I would never be able to do a half...and I've now done six since 2013, three during this year alone.
During this running journey, the bond I have with my mother has only grown stronger. Eventually our running obsessed lives only got more obsessed when we were picked to be apart of the Hartford Marathon Foundation running team. Team HMF has changed our lives and after our first year participating in 2015, we are brought back for again for this year!
Here is my post about being picked in 2015... Team HMF 2015
Here is some info about Team HMF 2016...Team HMF 2016
This past Saturday, between eating some amazing Mexican food and enjoying the new teal football field, I completed my 100th race. Back where the whole crazy goal was started...how fitting right?!
If this year hadn't thrown a couple curve balls, I would have hit race #100 a few races ago, but that wasn't the case.
The worst curve ball of all you ask? In April I fell running during a 5K in West Hartford and ended up with 20 stitches in my head, a non-displaced fracture of my brow bone and a crazy looking black eye.
Seven days later, I was running again, it may not have been my fastest 5K ever, but I wasn't going to let anything stop me.
As you can tell, nothing can stop me. Each time I told myself, "I could never do that!" I ended up doing it. Last year I walked the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon course for the Jimmy Fund Walk. A FULL MARATHON!
Without getting emotional, I must mention how none of these accomplishments would have ever happened if it weren't for my beautiful mother. My mom has consistently motivated me and shown me through her amazing lifestyle and spirit how important it is to take care of yourself. My mom has always supported me, even when I showed up to races hungover (or possibly still drunk), ran with me when I decided I needed to run a half marathon despite having pneumonia and motivating me to get to the finish line of every race no matter what. Thank you mom for always being there for me.
I know the next question is "What will my next goal be..?" I am not sure what my next goal will be, but I am going to keep running, race #101 and #102 are this weekend so I won't be retiring the sneakers anytime soon!
It's been a while, actually well over a year, but I am going to try and get better about blogging again and I think I have something pretty damn cool to blog about this week.
Over the weekend I made the pilgrimage to homecoming weekend at my Alma Mater, Coastal Carolina University... C-I...N-O!!! COASTAL IS NUMBER ONE!
Aside from eating my way through all the great food Myrtle has to offer, I completed a goal I set for myself in the summer of 2009.
I am not sure how many people know, but in the summer of 2009, I was heading into my junior year of college and just really feeling unfit. I had no real idea how to get in shape, but a summer of activities with my friend Rachel lead me down a path of life I never expected.
One random afternoon Rachel and I headed out for a run. Up until that point, I don't think I had run a full mile in my life. I ended up running 2 miles, I only know that because after the run was over I made Rachel get into the car and we drove where we ran so I could clock on the odometer how far we went. Two whole miles, I couldn't believe it! It was around that time I decided I should give a 5K a try.
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| Summer of activities 2009 |
A month or so later, my mom and I completed our first race together at the Red Dress Run in West Hartford.
After that race, I went back down to school and decided I wanted to run 100 races in my lifetime. I honestly thought hitting 100 races would take 37 lifetimes but I knew it would keep me motivated to keep running.
Each year that passed I was doing more races than the year before. I went from running around 8 races a year to running over 15 races a year with the last 2 years running over 20 races a year.
When my mom completed her first half-marathon in 2011, I remember telling her I would never be able to do a half...and I've now done six since 2013, three during this year alone.
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| Moms 1st Half Marathon June 2011 |
Here is my post about being picked in 2015... Team HMF 2015
Here is some info about Team HMF 2016...Team HMF 2016
This past Saturday, between eating some amazing Mexican food and enjoying the new teal football field, I completed my 100th race. Back where the whole crazy goal was started...how fitting right?!
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| Race #100 10/22/2016 |
The worst curve ball of all you ask? In April I fell running during a 5K in West Hartford and ended up with 20 stitches in my head, a non-displaced fracture of my brow bone and a crazy looking black eye.
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| April 30th, 2016 |
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| May 1st, 2016 |
Seven days later, I was running again, it may not have been my fastest 5K ever, but I wasn't going to let anything stop me.
As you can tell, nothing can stop me. Each time I told myself, "I could never do that!" I ended up doing it. Last year I walked the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon course for the Jimmy Fund Walk. A FULL MARATHON!
Without getting emotional, I must mention how none of these accomplishments would have ever happened if it weren't for my beautiful mother. My mom has consistently motivated me and shown me through her amazing lifestyle and spirit how important it is to take care of yourself. My mom has always supported me, even when I showed up to races hungover (or possibly still drunk), ran with me when I decided I needed to run a half marathon despite having pneumonia and motivating me to get to the finish line of every race no matter what. Thank you mom for always being there for me.
I know the next question is "What will my next goal be..?" I am not sure what my next goal will be, but I am going to keep running, race #101 and #102 are this weekend so I won't be retiring the sneakers anytime soon!
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