On the rebound! — THAT PRETTY RUNNER

Dear Runner Lovers,

I love being in the sport of marathon running, because there are so many events that everyone can have their day of achieving something special. 💞 We have the best looking sport, because we have the biggest support system as a community. There is not bias in a way someone can have more 'playing time' or 'better position' because you either run a time or you don't; running is black and white. Sometimes, I retroactively feel like I 'had my day' of achieving my running goal, and realize 'ya know I think I did do what I wanted, and this is what I want to do next...' 🙈

Sometimes, I place high in races and run slower than I wanted. Sometimes, I run fast, but so do a lot of people; run for a time and if you place high with other girls running that time too it's a bonus. Sometimes, I drop out of races and find happiness with a nice race pic from before everything fell apart. 😜 Nothing is a waste of time. Do not feel like, because a race does not go your way that you did a sick amount of training or mileage or years of hard work for nothing… I always like to powerfully say, 'Onto the next! It's impossible to give more than 100%’ instead of ‘ How silly of me to run like 20 miles everyday for years? Hahah.’ You just never know what life has coming around the corner, and there is nothing wrong with those building character moments.😉 Prodigious and abysmal love, that's what the marathon is.😄😭💝

All in all, I feel good about my marathon experiences the past ten years; it's silly but sometimes I think higher of running fast in 5k's during high school than some of my full marathons. After last summer, unexpectedly injuring both my knees my foot and my wrist in an accident, it's been a long time coming back to running 'well'. Running the Mount Desert Island Marathon in the fall may have been jumping in too soon after those injuries, but I don't regret it (MDI is my favorite thing). Nevertheless, I am grateful that I am starting to feel like I can run the way I actually want to again, and I think there will be some fun and challenging races coming up this spring and summer. I'm doing a half marathon, 15k and 10k, and I think I'll be happy racing on the rebound!😄

Run Happy,

That Pretty Runner