Mile Posts by Dorothy Beal

Don’t Think. Just Go.

Don’t think. Just go. I say repeatedly to myself.

It’s raining…don’t think, just go.

It’s cold…don’t think, just go.

I’ve only had one day off in the past two weeks…don’t think, just go.

I have work to do. How do you expect to get ahead in life? …don’t think, just go.

The excuses in my head can be endless some days. I could sit here and analyze the why of the excuses/valid reasons…

5 Tips For Helping Your Speedwork Feel Less Like Work

Every runner can attest to the fact that speedwork isn’t easy. It is after all speedWORK. While you may be the type of runner who enjoys that type of work make no mistake about it, it’s going to be hard.

Below are five tips, tricks, call them what you will to help make the work part of speed work easier.

Set Your Self Up For Success: It’s important to head in to a speed work prepared for what is…

NYC Marathon Training: RIP Toenails

I’m at the point in training where my feet are a hot mess. So from here on out I’ll be wearing one of these two nail polish colors {smokin’ hot & model clicks} in an attempt to hide the purple toenails as well as the lack thereof. I thought about going to the nail salon to have someone help me make them look pretty again, but I don’t feel like dealing with the ladies there asking me what I did to…

Week #13 NYC Marathon Training

This week is likely to be my last monster week before NYC Marathon. I don’t usually like to taper or cut back this far out when I’m trying to be serious about things but I’m being realistic with myself.

I started this training cycle back in July when I got back from our family vacation because I knew if I didn’t jump right in to training and being committed then I’d wait and wait and wait till…

New York City Marathon: Well Here We Are

It’s week #13 of marathon training and this is my first time writing here. I’ve written a hundred blog posts in my head but then didn’t have the time or shall I say MAKE the time to actually write here. At first it was a who cares anyways type of thing, but then I realized I really wanted to write here for me. I’ve come to that realization many times, so I’m not sure why I keep having to come to…

As a 36-time marathoner and busy mom of three, I’m always on the hunt for quick and easy ways to feed my family healthy, minimally processed food.

There are two items on my daily menu: coffee (can I get an amen?!) and potatoes. Growing up, I was always obsessed with french fries—who wasn’t—but it wasn’t until I learned I had a wheat allergy that I fully embraced potatoes as an…

I’m Back. Timing Isn’t Everything.

Hi friends!

It’s been awhile since I popped in to say hello. Thank you to those of you who have stuck around over here for the past five months while I didn’t write. If you are new and are randomly finding this post, welcome – I’m happy you are here!

I’ve been debating what to do with this space for some time now. Which then led to a debate about when to share that I was feeling conflicted about…

Good morning! It felt good to write here yesterday. I’ve missed this place.

Thoughts for today:

Running sometimes sucks. That was the point of my video yesterday I posted to instagram. Does that mean I’ve ever regretted a run? Nope, never. Does that mean I want to run less than I’m running now? Nope, I really do love it. Do I love it every day? Not so much. Does that mean I wouldn’t want to run…

I had every intention of writing here every day in January and then yeah….that didn’t happen.

So I’ve already not met some of my goals for the month, but others are still going strong. I’m choosing to focus on those and not let myself worry too much about the ones that have already fallen by the wayside, namely, blogging every day. And yes…I did start blog posts, lots of them, they are just…

At the beginning of 2017 amidst the whirlwind that was the election, I got into a somewhat heated discussion on my personal Facebook page. I was so frustrated with the entire discussion that I ended up deactivating my Facebook account for a while just to escape what felt like an increasingly negative place.

I loved the break.

I enjoyed the break so much so that I didn’t want to get back on…

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Spring marathon training started last week with my first local race {a holiday themed 5K} in what feels like forever! My mileage for the week was right around 25, which is lower than where I usually start at the beginning of a marathon cycle, but right where I intended to be for the week.

My coach keeps track of my weekly mileage in a master plan. Because I sometimes…

Sponsored by Zappos My kids are home on winter break and I’m pretty excited about it! Yes, it makes fitting in a run a little trickier than normal, but I treasure these days where the morning snuggles have no reason to end and we aren’t tied to a time on a clock. I love when we are free to do whatever we want, whenever we want. The older they get the easier exploring outside has become. When they…

I ran today. It didn’t go as planned. I hate plans for this reason, because often {or more than often} things don’t go as planned.

Thankfully my coachis also my best friend and she helps keep me on a non-plan plan. It’s one of the many reasons I decided to hire her as my coach. She gets me as a runner and as a person. I don’t think there has been a week, that she has been my coach, that something…

Hi friends! It’s been awhile since I wrote here. A long while….

It wasn’t on purpose and then it was on purpose.

For the sake of my sanity and simply because there really isn’t enough time to do everything I want to do, something had to give, and blogging was it. What I learned during my little break was that I really enjoy writing here. Though I have become more careful over the years in what I…

Mile Posts: Rock ‘n’ Roll Virginia Beach Half Training #rnrVB

It may sound crazy to run three races in one weekend, but to someone who likes relay races, three times seems completely normal.

I’d venture to say that running a 5K, a mile on the sand, and then a half marathon is probably going to be easier than any relay I’ve ever run anyways. I’m still however taking it seriously and have come up with a things-don’t-usually-go-as-planned-game-plan.

Depending…

New York City Marathon Training: 18.18 Miles

Last week I wrapped up my first week of 45 miles since before Boston. To be honest, it could be my first 45 week this year, I didn’t track my mileage during my Boston training, so I’m just assuming I ran that one week. I seem to remember being happy about that number this year, so I’m 99 percent sure that happened but am too lazy to go back and search through old instagram photos to see if I…

The New I Run This Body Group Page

A friendly reminder that if you wanted to enter the giveaway for a FREE entry to one of the Rock N Roll Virginia Beach races enter now before it’s too late — the giveaway ends tonight at midnight EST. You can enter over on my instagram page.

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