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Today's Running Life Lesson

      Running teaches a lot of life lessons. Today I am thinking about one lesson in particular that I am slowly trying to learn. You can't go at 110% all the time or you will burn out, even get injured. When I trained for my first half marathon, I didn't understand the concept of an "easy run." I thought every workout should be hard, that I should be completely spent at the end of it. I kept adding miles to my weekly training but I didn't give myself days to recover really and I didn't take any runs at an easy pace. I was running at my goal pace all the time. Guess what? I injured myself. I strained my glute and hip flexor and I had to take 3 weeks off of training to do physical therapy and dry needling. I was able to finish up training and complete the race, but it was definitely not pretty.      In most areas of my life, I am a perfectionist, people pleaser and high achiever. That is until I push myself to a burn out level and then I freeze or shut down. I
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An introduction

     Hi. I'm Carly. I am a mom of three, a wife, a quasi-retired lawyer, and more recently, a runner. I am registered for the Chicago Marathon this October 8 and it will be my first marathon ever. I wanted to chronicle this journey of training especially because it seems to be more of a mental journey than a physical one in a lot of ways. I struggle with anxiety and writing things down always helps me manage my anxious thoughts more successfully. Let me tell you, deciding to run a marathon has introduced MANY anxious thoughts. Let me start from what I think of as the beginning of this decision.  When I was pregnant with my second child, my son, D, who is now 6, I was really, really sick. Lots of throwing up and stomach pain. It was basically chalked up to a difficult pregnancy. However, after D was born, my issues didn't go away. I had terrible stomach pains and many days when I couldn't hold much down. I lost a lot of weight pretty quickly. I was tired all the time. Howeve
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Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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