That being said...it's been a minute!! I remember wanting to blog weekly and well....yeah.
Here are the high and low lights since my last blog entry:
Highlight: Running a Personal best on Superbowl Sunday!
Oh, hello there front page of New York Roadrunners...in my HOUSTON TEXANS jersey!! Highlight!!
Lowlight: It snowed during most of the race (though, that fact made running a personal best feel a little more bad A)
Highlight: The next day I flew to Cancun and started my first day of training for the Nike Women's Half !!! Oww!
Highlight: I celebrated another year of life!
Low light: That darn ankle injury came back to haunt me. Ugh. I rested for 2 weeks to avoid further injury. (There aren't many stock photos for "black person ankle injury," btw. I feel your pain, Serena!)
Highlight: When I was finally ready to get back out there, some of my uptown peeps hit the early AM pavement with me. Love!
Highlight: I got to workout at Barclays Center and shoot hoops on Kris Kardashian & co's court. Fun fun!
Highlight: Yooooooo!!!!! I ran 10 miles!!! Lil ol' me?! yup. I did.
Lowlight: I upped my mileage, but my form was all wrong and my shoes needed more support. Shin splints!!! Ugh. Sidelined again. (Hello there ethnically ambiguous girl in non-descript athletic wear. Gotta love stock photos.)
Then, out of nowhere - Nike to the rescue! The good folks on the Fuel Band team gifted me with sweet new Flyknits (which I'll be using to run the Nike Women's Half) and introduced me to baohaus. go there and get the coffin bao. trust me. Highlight!!!
Highlight: I was back at running the streets of NYC. Flying over bridges and dodging cranky cyclists. Ahhhh...I missed it so much.
Lowlight: Running my slowest pace ever in the Scotland 10K. Clearly I didn't know it before I took this silly photo. :(
Highlight: Quickly getting over my big 10k let down and putting in serious work on the track with the IronRunners. Sweat equity.
Highlight: Cooking this BOMB meal. This has absolutely nothing to do with running, but good food is just a highlight of life.
I'm 5 days away from my first-ever Half-marathon and I feel great. I'm extremely grateful for the people who have been part of this journey so far and proud of everyone's progress. To everyone running in DC this weekend - let's get it! We've put in the work; now it's time to put the work to work.
Stay tuned folks.
#RunRoRun
