Welcome to my Blog!!!!

Good evening everyone!!! I just wanted to try this out to begin with before I start officially blogging in the coming days. I am super excited to be able to share my journey with others. I hope to inspire others while they inspire me. Let's share with each other openly about out fitness, running, and weight loss ups and downs. I promise I am not perfect, nor do I even try to be. I am hear to share what I have learned since starting my own fitness journey in July of 2011 and my journey to becoming a marathon runner. I began running on March 17, 2012 and have truly found my passion. But I am by no means Boston ready. Running the Boston Marathon is on the top of my bucket list and I am going to work hard to reach that goal. So that's just a little bit about me for tonight. I will be back soon to post more about myself, the FB page I have created, and the training programs I am working on. There will be stuff about being a wife and mommy thrown in there as well. Hope you all will enjoy!!

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I may have a Serious Addiction!!!!

In the past 3 weeks I have ran 41, 45, and 46 miles!! Those are some crazy totals considering I would have been lucky to have a total of 20 miles a week back in October/November of last year! I definitely have my mojo back!! I keep wanting to push myself more and more with my running! My legs are feeling strong and powerful and I love it!! I am super proud of how far I have come with my running. Back when I started running almost 3 years ago, I had a hard time running a full mile on the treadmill and it took me between 13-15 minutes to do it! I would get so down on myself, thinking that I would never be able to run a 10 minute mile! Now I can run that consistently for long distances, but I get down on myself when I can't maintain 9 minute miles for a 5K! I need to just be proud of myself for how far I have come with my running! I will get there! I'm just always in such a competiton with myself! I know I can I can do so much better with my nutrition so I am going to read this b...

Project: Garage 2016 Part 4: Trusses, roof work, framing, and a new back door

I am so stinking excited about the work that has been done on my garage this week! I am so incredibly thankful for our builders (Hometown Remodeling, LLC)! They have put in a lot of work and it has been incredibly hot this week. I love the sun and I love to lay out in the sun, but even I didn’t want to go out this week!! Here’s what went down this week: Monday, July 18, 2016 : The trusses were delivered while the kids and I were at swim lessons. That was all that we thought was going to happen today. Luckily the builders finished their other job up early and headed to our house to get started on setting the trusses. They got about half of them set up before quitting for the day. Tuesday, July 19, 2016 : The builders arrived at 8:30 am to start on finishing the trusses, putting the wood down for the roof, and tar paper to get ready for the shingles. These 3 guys worked super hard all day. They di...

Madison Marathon 2016

You guys!!! I ran my second full marathon!!! And I beat my time by 7 minutes!!! I am still in shock several weeks later that I actually did it! (And that it’s taken me this long to write about it!) I didn’t quite make my ultimate goal of under 5 hours, but I was super close with a time of 5:04:03!!! Can you believe it??? Here’s how it all went down: The family and I drove up to Madison on Friday night to get my packet at the Expo. We hung around the Expo looking at the different booths, hanging out with fellow runners, and making signs. My kids made the greatest signs for me for race day! Such a pretty sight! There signs are so cute! I love how supportive they are! We went to Pizza Ranch for dinner afterwards which is always a nice carb-loading trip. I tell ya their pizza and chicken are the best. We recently went to Mac’s Pizza Shack which is a local restaurant and their pizza is good but just not qui...

Mom on the Run--Woman of Steele

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