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 ...

General Reminder: The American Family Half Marathon taking place in Richmond Virginia on November 12,2016 is not only the main reason we have all come here today, it is also the reason the blog was started and the original focus of it. So let us recall this, while appreciating all the the Petersburg Halloween Half Marathon has taught us, We have less 2 weeks left until I am running Richmond!!                              💚💛 Leadership  I got my bib number and was quickly smacked back to reality. My body is finally starting to feel normal again as all the soreness is FINALLY subsiding. Note to self: Never you go horseback riding and canoeing the week of a half marathon. The soreness is real!!! Now that I feel like moving its time to stop thinking about Bryan Park and finally go see what these hills are like. I'm so excited. I'm even thinking of moving my wave up. Right now I'm at 2:30 however, I...

A friend asked me to write her an email about my half experience and this is what I wrote:  So let’s start with all the nerves that bubbled up in my stomach lol! You know I’ve run a half marathon before, 13.1 miles of torture and mental strength, but I did it with my best friend and this time around I was alone! IT WAS COLD! And I am not a fan of the cold so at 530 am I had to readjust my entire outfit for the race, which of course brought more nerves and uncertainty. Either way I got it together and headed out. The race stated at 7am. Cold, dark and alone I head to the start which had 100s of eager and less nervous runner. This started to release some of the fears I had. When they called for runners to line up, the excitement kicked in. I had a goal to beat the old me and that was what I was going to do! I found comfort next to an older man, he reminded me of Carl. He had on the same bright green shirt like me but had these words written on his back,” I can do all things th...