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Honor The Journey – A Running Journal

Honor The Journey: Dealing With My Body Image

Posted on June 27, 2019

Having a positive body image? In today’s society? Climbing Mount Everest seems like a more plausible achievement. Name more than five people you know with positive body image confidence. If you do, then bravo! That is wonderful, but I think most of us fall into the category of struggling with our own body image regularly. But that’s not our fault. We have had standards that we were never intended to live up to. In fact, society rolls a lot stronger…

Honor The Journey - A Running Journal

Honor The Journey: Having A Supportive Partner

Having a supportive partner can change everything when choosing to live a healthy lifestyle. Particularly with kids in the mix. To become a runner you do change your entire life. If you don’t change your eating habits, your mindset…

June 20, 2019

Honor The Journey - A Running Journal

Honor The Journey: “Relentless”

Last year the word that themed my running was “relentless”. I didn’t even realize it until I had one of those amazing “Aha!” moments on a run last summer. I had recently read a book called “Strong” written by…

June 13, 2019

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Honor The Journey: This Is Why I Do It

Do you ever ask why I do it? I had 17 miles scheduled to run this past Sunday morning and it was one of those tough runs that tested you physically, mentally, but also gave you one of the…

June 6, 2019

Honor The Journey - A Running Journal

Honor The Journey: Running As A Single Mom

When I began my real running journey it was as my first year as a single mom. I was re-learning my life, my identity, and struggling with just about everything. As I’ve explained many times before, a friend of…

May 30, 2019

Honor The Journey - A Running Journal

Honor The Journey: No Excuses

No excuses with hashtags galore. We see it all over social media, in self help books, and talk about it all the time, but there is one thing we don’t talk about. Crossing the threshold of wanting to make…

May 23, 2019

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Honor The Journey: 15 Mile Run

My first 15 mile run in 2019 and my first big official marathon training run up the big ladder. I had some anxiety over these miles the night before. But then I reminded myself that not only had I…

May 16, 2019