Are you ever running and get caught up in day dream, a fantasy? Is it ever a reoccurring one? I do, and I always have the same fantasy when running, I have it even when I am not running. It is the Boston Marathon, always the Boston marathon. It may vary slightly from running the actual race, to qualify for the race to getting through the training. I heard about the Boston Marathon way before I really started running. Even then I respected it as ‘the race’ for those who ran marathons. This mostly came from my mother and her friends that were already running marathons. It was mostly just…

This past month has flown by. I cannot believe that is 7 weeks till race day; it’s coming up so fast!  I finally registered in Calgary Marathon after putting it off for no reason in particular. Registering in a race always gives me a certain amount of anxiety because it means you are committed no matter what and now there is an expectation to perform on race day. There is a lot of unknown that can happen on race day: weather, nutrition, how well you are going to sleep the night before etc, yet the training you put in now, that you have already put in is truly what is…