Adventures of a marathon girl

Hi Y'all, As most of y'all know I am currently learning how to be running coach and so far it has been an inspiring, motivational and insightful journey. Not only do you work on your own running techniques but you get to work on how to learn others how to run. In order to do so you need so much more than just a basic understanding of running. We get to work on heart rate tests, anatomy (of a running body in action even), injuries and injury prevention, how to design specific training modules and how to teach running in real life by designing lessons and teaching your fellow running coach program buddies. We get together on Saturdays for this course and we sit down for about an hour and a half to discuss homework assignments like physiology, anatomy, training principles, heart rate tests and so on. Half of the time my head starts spinning after an hour because the science of training athletes is a fast one and there are so many scientific researches out and...

Hi y'all, This story is not a fairy tale. It is a true story on how someone embarked on a journey with me, stuck to it even when the waters were rising, the wind picked up and his ship started to rock violently. It is the story of my brother of whom I am tremendously proud. He deserves his moment in the spotlight. He deserves to feel good about what he has accomplished. He deserves to feel his moment. Own it brother because this one is for you and only you have made this happen. I was but a mere spark. You did the work and boy did it make you FLY! About 4 or so months ago I kinda sneaked my brother into running the only way a sister knows how to. I just handed him a giftcard and a total beginners schedule. Scared to death that he would dismiss it all together and finding myself dumbstruck when he actually said yes to a couch2k running program. He quit smoking about two months prior to that moment and told me he wanted to be a fit and healthy daddy to his little girl Gwen. Now...

Hi y'all, It is my BIRTHDAY and today I celebrate life. This morning my super amazing husband man woke me up with a stack of amazing birthday presents. He got me an anatomy poster, a book on the anatomy of stretches, the amazing meals on the run cookbook by runner's world and tickets to tonight's performance of Ciske the Rat the musical. I am soooooo happy. After breakfast and gifts I went over to Running Holland because as of today I am an intern on two groups of beginning runners. Can you believe it? The day I turned fortyfour I started out as an intern. That just made smile. In time I will take on some of the parts in training and I will teach them too. Today I learned a lot about coaching beginners and I have had tremendous fun watching another coach in action. The fact that it is my birthday remained a secret and that felt really good. It felt like celebrating something nobody knew about and somehow that made this morning a little sunnyier than it actually was. ...