YOS: LA Marathon is BACK!

LA Marathon training is fast approaching. If at any point you thought: “I’d like to do a marathon some day” this is your chance!
Let me answer some of your pressing questions:

But Dre-Dog, I can’t even run a mile, how can I run 26?

26.2 Silly unicorn! 26.2! That’s ok, because guess what no one is asking you to run 26.2 miles right now. I mean you will eventually have to, but not like, right now.

Bitchez be trippin

Ah, but Ms Saavedra (if your nasty), I can’t run because (insert reason here), how can you expect me to run 26. 2?

-nuff said.

he makes us all look bad

P.S. There are run walk training programs for marathons.

I see you’ve shamed me into maybe slightly considering running a marathon, what is this training program you speak of?

 I will swear by LA Roadrunners program. It is very thorough and you get a chance to run/walk with people whom you can keep up with. It can be intimidating at first when you think “there is no way I can keep up with them” until you realize that they are just as slow or fast as you are. And you’re all working towards the same goal.

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I don't think you'll come across a lot of people who wills they regret running a marathon. They'll regret singing up for it, training for it, and right at mile 20, but when they're done they wont say "hey I wish I had never done that."

It is an amazing sense of accomplishment that I will be participating again soon.

ALSO if you say you still can't run the full, I think they have the relay option again this year. This option allows you to run a portion of the full (1/2 of it to be exact) and still earn the medal. 

Year of the Sneaker: Respect the Run

The new season of running is coming upon me (us- if your reading this blog). It starts with my 1st 1/2 marathon this Labor Day weekend. It's the Disney 1/2 and I'm hoping I can break my P.R. Considering my current long run time, this may be possible, but you can't cocky.

I want on an 11 mile run yesterday, my goal was to finish it in an 1:50, but 1:51 isn't so bad! average 10:06 min pace, which means I could beat my time. It was a very difficult run, with 1/2 of it being up hill (the green is the elevation)

As I was running and kicking some butt I kept thinking," I can beat my PR, totally." But you have to respect the race. I remember going into a run once, having done multiple 1/2 at that point, and thinking "I've got this." well needless to say, I didn't. I got my ass handed to me, it was hot, I was sore, my knee hurt, it just was NOT pleasant.

I'm pretty excited to see what new goals Disney 1/2 will bring me