HerbNRun

Wednesday morning, less than excited I woke from my slumber. Inundated with worry and concern from the state I had left my country in the night prior, I opened my eyes as I saw Facebook and ABC News share the news. You all know what it was so need to stress that, Election 2016 will always stand out in history, to me. Needless to say I wasn't in the mood to deal with office chit chat and debates as to what went terribly wrong or right or however you think. So I made the decision to be HAPPY! To me happy includes running.  So I took the joys I felt on Monday. Took those feels of others living out their dreams and honed in on my own peace of running joy to come... The American Family Fitness Half Marathon, my shot at running Richmond.I picked up my phone called out for the day, turned to my husband and asked him if he was up for a run around Richmond. Of course he was down! The plan has always been the same since the thought hit me almost 6 weeks ago. Get out to Richmond, figure out...

I go into everything I take on with passion and a goal of being my best. So no matter the challenge put before me I am looking for a way to do it better than I've ever done it before; in other words I strive to be the best! Competitive: Yes; Passionate: Yup; Driven: That's a give in. Life Has taught me "The 12P's";  "Piss poor planning promotes piss poor performance, piss poor performance promotes pain." in other words If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, oh my... I think that's also a saying but between the two you should catch my drift. I've planned and put my body through the rigors of training, cross training, yoga, long runs and speed runs all behind me minus one more speed run and a shake out run before I attend  the expo on Friday. So naturally like the athlete I have been for oh so long I'm plotting on the miles I have to conqueror on Saturday.  My madness is quite logical here is a look. Research was the first step. Af...

It's Tuesday and I have never looked forward to a long weekend like I am today. Some people are thinking about the elections; Who will be the next leader of the "free" world?!? Don't get me wrong, it's a concern of mine but as of now I'm using the joy of watching the New York City Marathon to project me into an amazing run this weekend as I take on 13.1 and #RunRichmond! Did I say I was excited?!?!?! I voted but I didnt see " This guy" on the ballot  Let's talk about the TCS NYC Marathon .. Omg, so much awesomeness in one race. I mean LOCATION, location, location! You get to literally run NYC! The whole city, all 5 boroughs are yours for the taking and that alone sounds amazing. I heard one of the announcers say that it is one of the hardest, if not the hardest marathon course and that intrigued me; I love a challenge!  It had me so excited on Sunday that I ended that day knowing that a marathon was closer then I thought it was just a week ...