Hi everyone. I’m Marissa, and I’m a (close to) running newbie hoping to make her way to Marathon Weekend in 2021. Welcome to my journal; I’ve been reading here, though I’ve been shy to jump in, and I hope to make some running buddies who understand what motivation that Disney finish line is.
For a little about me, I’m 29 and a mom of, at least for a few more days, two under two - a little boy who’s turning two this weekend and a six month old little girl. I’m a stay at home mom with a background in teaching and nothing in the world makes me happier than my family. We’ll actually be taking our first trip as a family to WDW the week preceding marathon weekend for my daughter’s first birthday, and I’ve caught this bug that for her second birthday, I want to show her I can run it.
As for my fitness background, I’ve always been active but I’ve never particularly worked out. Before kids, my husband and I would spend most of our weekend time walking around the city we then lived in or doing little hikes. I completed couch to 5k at that point in my life as well and really enjoyed it. Then I made the incredible but whew buddy sometimes questionable decision to have two babies in the span of seventeen months (at a casual 8lbs and 10lbs each.) I’m still active - I have the kids out running around at parks or on hikes daily and wear my daughter for about three hours a day as we do it - but I definitely have some post partum challenges, mainly from diastasis recti. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s when your abs separate after the process of pregnancy and birth and don’t knit back together well quickly. The gap between my abs is fairly large, and it’s knocked out a lot of my strength. I can get pretty down sometimes that my body looks and functions so much differently now than it has in the past; that formerly 10lb baby is my whole life, but she did not come cheap!
Like I said, really exercising on a schedule is pretty new to me, save for my prior C25k completion, but I want to gain some control back over my physical form and start working with the body I have now to make it the strong body I know it can be. Since I did really enjoy C25K in the past, I thought it would be a fine place to start, and I can build from there towards my ultimate marathon goal. I walk the St Jude Walk/run in our area every September, so I’m currently completing C25k to train for that run then I’ll begin half training between end of September and December.
I’m still acclimating to the boards and learning the culture here, but it seems like a really great place to stay motivated. Thank you all for having me!
For a little about me, I’m 29 and a mom of, at least for a few more days, two under two - a little boy who’s turning two this weekend and a six month old little girl. I’m a stay at home mom with a background in teaching and nothing in the world makes me happier than my family. We’ll actually be taking our first trip as a family to WDW the week preceding marathon weekend for my daughter’s first birthday, and I’ve caught this bug that for her second birthday, I want to show her I can run it.
As for my fitness background, I’ve always been active but I’ve never particularly worked out. Before kids, my husband and I would spend most of our weekend time walking around the city we then lived in or doing little hikes. I completed couch to 5k at that point in my life as well and really enjoyed it. Then I made the incredible but whew buddy sometimes questionable decision to have two babies in the span of seventeen months (at a casual 8lbs and 10lbs each.) I’m still active - I have the kids out running around at parks or on hikes daily and wear my daughter for about three hours a day as we do it - but I definitely have some post partum challenges, mainly from diastasis recti. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s when your abs separate after the process of pregnancy and birth and don’t knit back together well quickly. The gap between my abs is fairly large, and it’s knocked out a lot of my strength. I can get pretty down sometimes that my body looks and functions so much differently now than it has in the past; that formerly 10lb baby is my whole life, but she did not come cheap!
Like I said, really exercising on a schedule is pretty new to me, save for my prior C25k completion, but I want to gain some control back over my physical form and start working with the body I have now to make it the strong body I know it can be. Since I did really enjoy C25K in the past, I thought it would be a fine place to start, and I can build from there towards my ultimate marathon goal. I walk the St Jude Walk/run in our area every September, so I’m currently completing C25k to train for that run then I’ll begin half training between end of September and December.
I’m still acclimating to the boards and learning the culture here, but it seems like a really great place to stay motivated. Thank you all for having me!