First Posts are Killers

Haloooo! My name is Maria and I am utterly boring.

This is not my first blog. I have been blogging for a number of years about my personal 

life which is humdrum at best. We lead a life that is perfect for Facebook.  

We're really good at making our life look interesting.

I take a mean selfie.  

But alas, you blog readers need details. And pictures. Lots of perfectly styled and 

glowingly lit pictures and I hate to say it but my life doesn't photograph well. Our old

house is in a constant state of disrepair and hellllloooooooo! I have three kids 

under the age of three. There's not a whole lot of prettiness going on in my life right now.

 So as much as I would love to have a dedicated following that thinks I'm totally

 wonderful I just haven't found that niche that makes me special in the blogging world.

I do like to run though.

I had been running for a year or so when I stumbled upon Onward! The Absolute, No B.S., Ridiculous, Soul-Stirring Truth About Training for Your First Marathon. And I fell in 

love with this lady. She spoke to my soul you guys. She was funny and real and it was 

so nice to read a real person's take on marathon training (real as in not an athlete).

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I had just finished my first half marathon and was training for my first marathon 

when I read her book. It was a quick and great read for where I was at in my life. 

Fast forward almost a year. 

The lessons I have learned, you guys, I can't even tell you. There is so much more 

wrapped up in this running business. I have learned things about myself, I have come 

to terms with the incredible mistakes I have made in my "career", in my relationship, 

in life in general. Things that I didn't even know had been an issue have 

been accepted and resolved. 

It's crazy. 

So when I started rereading her book a couple days ago I started coming across 

passages in her introduction that completely applied to me. 

We were both stuck in a rut.

We had both just laid down in our relationships. 

We had both lost our sense of self and self-worth. 

We both felt weak and helpless and truly had no idea where to start

helping ourselves. 

I was shocked at how close this all hit. When I first read her book I felt pretty good 

about where we were considering we were drowning in all things baby. Three babies 

in two years ya'll. It's no joke. I felt like her initial problems just didn't apply to me. 

Looking back I can see how wrong I was. 

So, this blog go 'round I'm taking a bit of a different approach. Instead of writing a 

lifestyle blog with a little bit of running and cooking I'll be writing a running blog 

with a lot of cooking and a little bit of lifestyle. I've learned that running is really the 

only constant in my life. Five of the last six posts on my other blog were running 

posts so I'm just going to go ahead and commit to this.

 You'll hear about my running (I'm gonna bitch a lot. Get used to it), my battles with 

nutrition vs. my deep love of Hot Cheetos, and probably a little bit 

about my cross training. 

What you will NOT see in the blog are beautifully put together pictures of my lovely home, 

my well makeuped and hairsyled self, or my perfectly behaved children because honestly. 

I loved the approach Brook took with having a daily short post with the occasional 

long post. Contrary to the length of this post, ain't nobody got time fo' that! 

To wrap it up, I hope you guys will enjoy taking this journey with me. Currently I have 

multiple mud runs, a 5K, and two half marathons under my belt. I am halfway 

through training for my next half marathon at the end of October. I start training for my 

first marathon (February) the second week of November. That's where we're at and 

that's where we'll pick up.

-Ri