October 7, 2007
Andy finished the marathon!
Despite leg cramps that started around mile 10 and persisted and the hottest Twin Cities Marathon on record, he finished! I’m so proud of him!
I saw a woman collapse at the end and try to crawl through the medical officials trying to help so she could reach the end. Despite that, we’re luckier than the Chicago Marathon. Yikes.
He wants to do it again sometime. After his legs recover 
October 1, 2007
I received my official packet of marathon information in the mail last week. I’m genuinely sad at not running this Sunday.
I’m excited for Andy though! I’m going ahead with my plans to run the 5K.
September 17, 2007
So I might be running the Twin Cities 5K Run/Walk, which is the day before the marathon. A friend is planning to run, and it wouldn’t be that hard to train for since the distance was a staple in the training program I was doing. And this way, I can still cheer Andy on!
September 14, 2007
I’m not doing the marathon.
I actually decided a bit ago, but was holding out for some reason. There were too many transitions this month and hours that I thought I would be working to do the intense training.
Andy is still doing it! Cheer him on!
August 20, 2007
This week begins a proverbial “crunch time” for me. Classes start up, a new job start(ed) that will take up lots of time, plus training and everything else. I will try to keep readers updated, but as you can already tell, my devotion to updating has gone down as free time has gone down.
That being said, the marathon is just over a month away!
August 5, 2007
Well it’s been an emotional and busy week. Wednesday I was taking a shuttle from Pequot back to the Cities, planning to update when I got back home. However, close to home I found out about the 35W bridge collapse, and cue to countless cell phone calls (when people could get through) from frantic friends wanting to know if I and loved ones were safe. Well, thank goodness we were (and are). But, nevertheless, the rest of the evening was spent watching the news and fielding phone calls instead of anything else.
After that, the future sister-in-law came into town for the weekend, so I’ve been running around and entertaining all weekend. A marathon-related update will happen soon.
July 31, 2007
My former boss is running a half marathon with her husband this week, the Urban Wildland Half Marathon. This is a shout out to her, wishing her good luck and remember to use the bathroom early on!
July 26, 2007
I haven’t blogged much this week because there hasn’t been much to blog about. We suspended our runs until the air quality improves and the temperature goes down. With it being 90+ degrees every day this week and pollution/air quality warnings running a muck, Andy and I decided it would be unwise to try and run. Even at 9p.m. at night, it’s too hot to run and running later than that is just silly.
I have been trying to do more cross training this week so that I’m not sitting completely on my butt, and I can do that indoors (in our air conditioned house -wee!).
I will update more, and let you know when we start running again.
*On Your Porch, by The Format
July 24, 2007
The Twin Cities have continued to be riddled with pollution warnings this summer. It makes me anxious, but Andy and I have been trying our best to run later in the days or early for the longer runs.
It’s also supposed to be ridiculously hot all week long.
July 18, 2007
I’m really good at composing my posts while on the run. Lately, it’s been hard to put them into actuality.
Andy and I both hit a wall in running where we were a bit sick of running every day, which translated into I didn’t feel like posting either. But, I promised to post the good and the bad, so here I am, kicking my butt.
We got over that feeling, by the way.
Despite being sick of running for awhile, we’ve managed to reach our time goals for almost all of our runs, which is encouraging.
So my question, to runners and non-runners alike, how do you overcome the mental blocks you have?
