This is the story of how I never stopped running @bravesole - Tumblr Blog

I'm at a crossroads rn where I know that if I treat myself well (mentally and physically) and throw myself into my training I have the potential to run a huuuuge marathon PR in October. Unfortunately I am basically an Olympian when it comes to treating myself like shit.

#me @ me eat your fucking lunch #and maybe start sleeping more than 3 hours a night

7 miles before 7am. Marathon training is going!

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Trying to romanticize waking up at 5:30am for slow runs in the miserable heat. I can't lie, I am actually loving it. So grateful to be back out here doing my thing (and training for another marathon?!?!) I for sure thought I'd closed the running chapter of my life but the bitch is back and faster than ever!

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We are back at it!!

Accidentally ran a PR this Saturday at the Brooklyn half and I'm pretty excited about. I've put in some hard work over the last year and a half but I'm just getting warmed up. Marathon training starts next month and I'm ready to fucking kill it. Here's to my most epic comeback.

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Ok so I have definitely lost my fucking mind but I’m trying to find things to work towards bc having a future is very unappealing to me rn and I’ve decided that said goal is going to be a 50 mile endurance run in 2022.

I haven’t really run in like two years bc hospitalizations and trauma and life but running is so important to me and it’s been kind of soul crushing that it’s not a part of my life right now. It’s a very complicated thing because it’s directly tied to trauma but in some ways I think that makes it all the more important.

Anyway, this just feels like the right goal for some reason. Maybe because it’s disheartening to me that I’ve lost any speed I worked for during this time off. Maybe because I’ve already done the marathon thing a few times. Maybe because it seems entirely impossible and I have no fucking idea how I could ever accomplish it and I need to prove to myself I can. I don’t know. But if I make it to 2022 I’m going to do it.

So the road starts here. I don’t think I can run right now bc I haven’t been taking care of myself physically and I need to be a little more stable before adding exercise into the mix but all the more reason to work harder. We start with that. And then we run.

#wtf am i getting myself into #also if anyone is still following this blog....idk what to tell you to expect #mostly documenting for me #so things might get weird

Goal #1- resume running by or at the start of December

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long run was done before the rest were awake & this is what makes the good in to the great

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it’s okay to take it slow and it’s okay if your best right now isn’t what your best once was because you keep going and your best tomorrow will be better than your best today.

what other people are doing, what other people are running, what other people are eating have nothing to do with you. and as long as you’re doing what you need to do every day, it doesn’t matter what they’re doing, eating, running.

your life happens at the speed it’s meant to, and you’ll get there in due time.

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I decorated a mug!

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“you must allow yourself to outgrow and depart from certain eras of your life with a gentle sort of ruthlessness.”

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“I run because long after my footprints fade away,maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path,hit the trails,put one foot in front of the other,and come to the same conclusion I did:I run because it always takes me where I want to go.”