
After breakfast, Mal and I headed out in search of iced coffee. We loved visiting the Public Market this morning, so we ended up back there and popped into the super-cute, hole-in-the-wall Royal Coffee Bar for coffee. I ordered an iced coffee with soy milk. With iced coffees in hand, we walked back to the [...]

Mal and I started our day by running a few errands. We needed supplies for tomorrow’s pre-marathon breakfast, so we found a little grocery store near by and incorporated it into a quickie run this morning. Before we left, I snacked on two mini Larabars from the Expo yesterday. Mal and I ran about 1.5 [...]

Here’s a little preview of what I will look like when I cross the finish line of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Arizona Marathon: I am such a dork. But, seriously, the countdown has begun!
[rewind to 6:30 this morning] Breakfast At the airport before our flight, I ate a pathetic-looking banana that I brought [...]

Mal and I had a really early flight to Phoenix today, so we decided to stay at a hotel in Boston last night and just grab a cab to the airport this morning. It made our morning so much easier. Now that we live outside of the city, we took the commuter rail into Boston [...]

This is it. Mal and I are currently on our way to Phoenix to run our first marathon. If you’ve been following since August, it’s been a long time coming. Weeks of training: 22 Track (speed) workouts: 16 Saturday morning team runs: 14 Half marathons run during training: 1 Saturday morning team runs that it [...]