Livin' the Dream in Lima

Also known as my first marathon where I DID NOT WALK! Woo hoo! (That was my one & only goal going into this race.) Biggest medal ever. I signed up for the race just 6 weeks before, so I didn't have much time to put in a lot of quality training. I decided to take a laid-back approach to this marathon and remember why I love running - because it's fun.  My Business Man and I headed down to Columbus Saturday afternoon, and strangely I was not nervous at all. We hit up the expo for some goodies. (Thank you, King's Hawaiian, for the 7 free product coupons!) Love that the tech shirts are long-sleeved this year... seems like I always need more cold weather running gear than hot weather running gear. Somehow we scored an awesome deal on a hotel room  corner suite. I swear, it was bigger than our first apartment. Bedroom, complete with lounge chair and hot tub. Bathroom with a double shower (with 3 shower heads on each side!) And then a full living room with a pull-...

Yea, that happened this week. It's actually now only 5.5 weeks away. Yikes! Sure, why not? I haven't been in a running routine since I was training for Boston last spring. Through May & June, I kind of lost my running mojo and it was really hard to get motivated. I told myself I was 'recovering' from Boston. (Which is totally legit.) Somehow I squeaked out a 5k PR on July 4, without doing much speed work at all. I've been running most of the summer, but no real training plan or focus. At the end of August, I found myself telling someone that I was still 'recovering' from Boston... 4 months later. Lol, don't think I can use that as an excuse any more. :-P So, one of my running buds here in the Bean Town runs the Columbus Marathon every year, and I have run the half-marathon the past couple years. I've done a few of her long runs with her, and last weekend we did 14. I felt pretty good, so I decided to go ahead and sign up for t...

Hey guys! First of all, thanks for all the well wishes and good luck's toward my half this morning! It definitely boosted me up big time. Let's rewind back to yesterday... My Business Man and I headed down to Columbus in the late afternoon, and picked up my race packet at the expo. Nothing too exciting to report there. We checked into our hotel and headed off to find dinner. Fortunately for us, our hotel was literally minutes away from one of my most favorite places in the state of Ohio - Easton Town Center . Yes.  We ended up dining at California Pizza Kitchen for some delicious carbs. I ordered the BBQ Chicken Pizza (the same thing my Business Man wanted), but I made him order something else. Because who orders the same exact dish as their dining companion? So he ordered the Hawaiian  Barbecue Chicken Pizza. (Same exact thing plus pineapple.) Haha. We are two of a kind. Yummy pizza. We skipped over the shops (for the time being, no worries, we came back ...