She Runs By Faith

"Are you done having kids so you can focus on running now?"   That was an interesting question I received this year though the long distance running thing has been happening for 15 years - before, during all the pregnancies, babies/post-babies seasons, and continues now. :) The iceberg picture below is one of my favorites to illustrate any "thing" that a person is working towards and then recently I read this quote that brings it all together: "When you finally break through the Plateau of Latent Potential, people will call it an overnight success. The outside world sees the most dramatic event rather than all that preceded it. But you know that it's the work you did long ago - when it seemed that you weren't making any progress - that makes the jump today possible." - James Clear, "Atomic Habits" There isn't really anything fancy about this running journey. Just lots and lots of consistency, a pretty substantial injury years ago, m...

Let this be the long-lost race report that never happened at the end of 2024 and also a photo dump of our trip to Georgia! There is so much that I haven't wrote about since Fargo 2024 and prior to that even. I had mentioned my mom's brain cancer diagnosis in May of 2023 and she did pass away in July 2024, now having rest and complete healing as she is with our Lord Jesus Christ.  Since then, I have been doing a lot of life "pruning". What is priority? What isn't? My main priorities are God, my husband & family, and homeschooling - then everything else comes after that. Last February was a rough one with mom's cancer battle, my running pup Ruby dying unexpectedly, and assortment of other things just adding up. I was about ready to cut the "unessentials" of marathoning, Instagram/this blog (my running community basically), and to just do what I absolutely had to do. I was very sad and wanted to give up on whatever I had the option to. That even c...

(Repost from IG with some deets at the end) On Saturday, I ran the Fargo Marathon for Marathon #19! There is a lesson to learn from every marathon and yesterday’s was: Even when things don’t go according to plan, NEVER GIVE UP‼️ Back when the miles felt smooth :)  I went in with an aggressive “A” goal, overshot my pacing (oye 🙄) and hit a pretty hard wall wayyy too early in the race. After mile 10, I started to fade and knew that my current pacing wasn’t sustainable for the next 16.2 miles. I was passed by many runners at that point and really battled it out in my mind for the rest of the race. Somewhere around the 25th mile of the race, a half marathon runner yelled, “the lead is only 4 minutes ahead, GO GET HER!” I said, “thank you!”, and gave her a thumbs up but was very doubtful that I could catch anyone with how miserable I felt. How not to pace a marathon... I kept trucking at whatever pace I could keep, feeling pretty tense and disappointed in how I executed this ...