Sheri - Back from the Brink

Well, my third half marathon is in the books. I can't say that all went as well as I had hoped, but it went well enough. Didn't make my hoped-for finish time (boo!) but a new PR was set (yay!) 

Tradition is to make a weekend of these things, so Hubby and I drove down to Monterey Friday night. Since we wanted to miss most of the traffic, we stayed in town to eat dinner out, then at home to pack before heading south aroun...

I have just under four weeks until the Big Sur Half Marathon race(http://www.bigsurhalfmarathon.org), and I?m less than half way toward my fundraising goal of $1500.  I hope that you can support me in some small way to help fund clinical research to search for treatments for Multiple Myeloma.  You can go to my fundraising website here(http://www.active.com/donate/200...

Quick plug, I’m running the November 15 Big Sur HalfMarathon as a charity run for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.  Please consider supporting me by giving to this very worthy cause.

On to the race report…

I listen to a number of running podcasts during my runs.  I find that the miles pass by morequickly, and it’s almost like having a human runni...

Back in early 2007,after adopting an energetic shelter dog who needed exercise, I decided to make a change in my life and joined Weight Watchers to get healthy and back to amore attractive weight.  I started running as just a part of my overall weight loss plan, but I found out that I?m a runner!  I've been running ever since I completed the Couc...

I ran the 10K portion of the Santa Cruz Half Marathon and 10K last year, and since hubby has taken up running now, I encouraged him to sign up for the 10K this year instead of being my designated photographer.  So I didn?t even bring our camera. You will have to content yourself with my hideous official race photos.

Hubby and I left town right after work Friday afternoon to try to beat some of the traffic over the hill, so we arrived at our motel by about 5:30.  ...

With my half marathon coming up this Sunday, I’m taking some time to review my training and finalize my race goals.  After tonight’s easy 3 mile run, I will have completed 54 training runs for a total of 365 miles over the course of 18 weeks on the FIRST half marathon plan.  I’ve managed to remain injury free, but I did have to deal wit...

I signed up for a fun ‘tune-up’ race in preparation of my April half-marathon, the Emerald Across the Bay 12K in San Francisco on March 15.  The main attraction of this race for me was the run across the Golden Gate Bridge.  After a lifetime in the Bay Area, I’ve never walked across the bridge.

Saturday was my scheduled longest run in my half marathon training plan—15 miles.  Two weeks ago I ran 14 miles, which was also my longest to date.  That went well, so I was feeling fairly confident going just one more mile.  Hubby was also planning a run, so I thought we might try running together for a bit, then he could take Maggie home when they were both tired.

Just so happens that JC Penney was offering one of their Saturday morning sales, and since I was i...

Saturday's hike couldn't have been better-perfect weather, no mud (amazing for January), and great company (hubby).

We left town with scouts and parents by about 7:20 am, making it to the park by about 8:45.  The parking lot was still in shade at that hour, so it was quite chilly and left me wondering if I should have worn a heavier jacket.  But we set off on the trail to the caves near a small reservoir.

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Today was mostly a rest day, and mostly timewasting on my laptop waiting for my new virus software to do a full scan and then installing Windows XP Service Pack 3.  I did take a long walk after dinner with hubby and Maggie.

For lunch I had my awesome salmon burger--I pan fry a s...