My friend Jen was on my cross country team in college. She lives in St. Louis and works for the St. Louis Marathon. She recently began a blog that essentially serves as her training log with a few other tidbits thrown in. Since several of us are currently in a "down cycle" of our running, I thought you might enjoy checking in on someone in more of an "up cycle." Or, you can just use it as perspective of what another runner out there is doing.
Enjoy.
http://teamrosario.blogspot.com/
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I like her blog. Her approach to blogging is much like the approach I envisioned when co-creating Endorphin. Some may say that they don't have the time to post daily, but if you think about it...it doesn't take all that much time to type a few paragraphs about your day and workout. (That is, if you so desire.) Maybe I should repost the "Welcome to Endorphin!" post.
She seems to have a lot of running support. I'd love to be able to rely on that daily--to be able to call up a few friends and say, hey, let's go for a run or a bike ride, or to have friends on the same training schedule. That's invaluable and seemingly hard to come by.
Thanks for sharing, Em.
In the words of Deena Kastor: "We make choices. I hate to say 'sacrifices.' When I speak to younger groups, to colleges and other younger athletes, I say 'we don't make sacrifices. If we truly love this sport and we have these goals and dreams in the sport, the classroom, or in life, they're not sacrifices. They're choices that we make to fulfill these goals and dreams.' Sacrifices makes it sound like 'oh, poor me, I have to do this in order to get to this,' and I don't really like that word. It was just really the choice to take care of myself and live a proper lifestyle. In doing that, I feel like a healthier person, I feel focused in everything, not just in my running. In following this one dream, I feel like I became an even more well-rounded person."
I just went back to the "Welcome to Endorphin" post to remind myself what the inital goals of this blog really were. Indeed, quite similar to the approach Jen has taken with her blog. I think that this will be helpful to me after baby gets here and I'm trying to get back into racing shape. 6 weeks and counting.
You and I will be resuming running at about the same time. I plan to rely heavily on this blog...
Good luck with the final stages of your pregnancy. I hope all goes well.
I didn't realize that Jen's fiance qualified for and ran in the Olympic time trials in Central Park. I think he ran a 2:36 or something. Qualifying time was 2:20 at Twin Cities Marathon in 2005? He's gone faster in previous years. Impressive.
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