What now? Upcoming races

I'm allliiiivvveeeeeee!

I had a feeling I would fall hard off the blogging wagon with work being crazy and the marathon being over. If this were Oregon Trail, I would definitely have drowned in the river or died of dysentary at this point. I did most of my prime blogging and blog-reading at work (shut it, you do it too) and with new responsibilities and lots of other stuff going on like LIFE, I've let it slide. But I've missed it and have some new ideas on how to keep up with writing/reading so I'm hopefully back.

Not that you guys have cared. :-/ I only got one comment wondering where I was and, unless I missed it, I didn't see an amber alert out looking for a short Latina girl who fancies herself a 'runner.' Bastards.


There's been all sorts of stuff that I want to catch up on and I figured I'd start with the easiest one, which is the 'what now?' post and then spread the other stuff across a couple of updates so I don't bombard you with one, monster recap. But I'm planning on posting about my FABULOUS trip to Portland to visit Jen (& even Zach was there for part of it!) A post on my fun, relaxing week in LA visiting the fam, and also my Pacific Palisades/Will Rogers State Park 10K race report are coming up. Some awesome companies have contacted me to review their products, so there will also be some schwag reviews soon. Lots of good stuff!


On to the race calendar!! So, here are my upcoming races for the rest of the year:

July 19th - Napa-to-Sonoma Half Marathon with the ROHOs

July 26th - San Francisco (half) Marathon with lots of bloggy friends, in honor of Tara's Bday

October 4th - Cowtown Half Marathon (goal = half PR)

November 15th - Malibu Inaugural Marathon (training run for CIM)

December 6th - California International Marathon (goal = new marathon PR!)


I'm pretty sure this is all that I'm doing (although I wouldn't put it past the girls to talk me into something ELSE) for the remainder of the year.


Initially, I wanted to PR at NtoS but it's looking like it'll be a scorcher and also, let's face it, I've been run-slacking as much as I've been blog-slacking. I've still been working out and have become a huge fan of kickboxing classes at my gym, but I've lost the mojo for running and I need to get it back. I think I just got tired after putting so much time, energy and focus on SD. I needed a physical and mental break. But I am readdddyyyyyyy to get it all back.


I have some ideas for what races I'd like to run next year, but let's take it one year at a time, yeah? Hope everyone is well and I'll be catching up on reading blogs ASAP!