JENN: HAPPY NEW YEAR! MOON: Happy New Year to you also! JENN: How was your holiday? MOON: The holidays were relaxing. New Year’s was great (I got to hang out with my BFF Jenn!). How was your holiday? JENN: Pretty good! I got new sneakers and everything. Plus a free hat for my birthday! MOON: Oooh! Yay, new gear. 🙂 JENN: Did you run at all...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Crashes Back Into Reality
So, what’s a good follow up in five glorious days at Walt Disney World and a rainy but ultimately successful half marathon? Why, coming home and promptly falling off the stairs, of course! I don’t know what I did to my foot but I know it NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED if I’d just stayed at Disney. Did I mention...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Is Obnoxiously Cheerful About the Future
Strap in, everybody – to counter yesterday’s whine-fest, I’m now going to be overwhelmingly positive! In this particular case, I am both Ted AND Veronica. See this sticky note that lives on my work computer? This sticky note houses all the joy of the foreseeable future. The first two – the Tessy convention (5K recap here) and Outer Banks...
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Runs A Sucking Simulation
I am a treadmill girl. We know this. But I know this, too: I need to get more experience running outside with terrain and inclines and all that jazz (thanks for the heads up on that fact, MCM 17.75K). And since it was a nice day on Monday, I decided I’d give the whole running outdoors thing another go....
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Is Dopey
I have done something. I have done something unwise. (source) Thanks to the magic of early registration for Annual Passholders, I just registered for WDW Marathon Weekend’s Dopey Challenge. I have willingly signed up to do a 5K… and then get up the next morning and do a 10K… repeat, run a half marathon… repeat, RUN A FULL MARATHON....
Continue readingIn Which Jenn Has Her Race Year Completely Planned Out
Well. Perhaps not COMPLETELY planned out. I could maybe toss a couple 5Ks in there if something interesting pops up. But here’s the major race plan skeleton. Item 1: I signed up for the Marine Corps 17.75K at Nicole‘s urging ’cause she was all THE MARINE CORPS MARATHON IS A LOTTERY THIS YEAR WE NEED THIS. See, if you...
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