Welcome back!

Well it's been a few years or so since I started this blog business, and as you may have noticed I've been on somewhat of a hiatus. As you can imagine, lots and lots has happened since the last post and in short, I'm now an old married lady with a mortgage and a dog.

I remembered recently that my last real blog post was about the half marathon I ran a few years back, and when I wrote it, I told you that I wanted to run a FULL marathon after I completed the half. I lost motivation after that post, but am happy to report that it's happening now. My husband and I are at the tail end of our training program and we run our race on November 10th. My husband, Scott, got the bug after talking to my cousin and experienced marathon runner at the end of June, and sure enough we started training the first week of July.

Since then, we've logged about 400 miles of training runs and I've learned that I am quite picky when it comes to what I'm bringing with me on the longer ones. We've alternated our long (10-20 mile) runs on a trail route (with no water accessibility) and a local park that has water, bathrooms, and pavement. I decided to start this again to share some of my experience and ideas in particular for other runners out there that may be particular, like me.