Follow @VanessaJunkin Given the choice between a beautiful trail on a 60-degree day and the treadmill, I’d still choose to run on the trail. I love running outdoors. But after running on a treadmill twice in the past week — on Saturday and on Thursday — it’s starting to grow on me a little bit. … More Why I don’t hate the treadmill as much as I used to
Follow @VanessaJunkin Eighteen miles. Three pairs of socks. Two phone charging breaks. After what ended up being pretty much an all-day affair, I had finished running 18 miles in the snow. I generally plan my long runs for Sundays, but I knew the weekend was going to be colder than normal, and I saw the high … More How social media made my solo 18-miler in the snow better
Follow @VanessaJunkin I noted in my January wrap-up that I wanted to bring speed work back into my routine. So, last week, I got in two speed workouts, one much faster than the other. Normally, I’d only do one speed workout in a week, but my friend Taylor and I spontaneously decided to do a … More A return to speed work
I was skeptical when I looked at my phone this morning and saw there was a 100 percent chance of snow for later in the day. It didn’t feel that cold out. I arrived at the Guerrieri University Center parking lot at Salisbury University on Sunday morning for the Tim Kennard group training run, planning … More The first snow run of the season
This isn’t necessarily a running post, but healthy eating and exercise go hand-in-hand, so I figured I would share the challenge I created for myself during January. While on Twitter one day, I realized I had packed my lunch on workdays for four out of the four days in 2016. I decided to challenge myself … More My January healthy eating/money saving challenge
With temperatures that reached at least 61 degrees on Saturday, it was a beautiful day for a run, and I spent the morning on a long run with my friend Veronica. I ran 12 miles, my first beyond-10-mile run of marathon training for the Shamrock Marathon on March 20. Next weekend, I have a 15-miler … More Marathon training ramps up with a trek through Tyaskin, Bivalve
There are plenty of things I want to do, running-wise, in 2016, but I’m picking four main goals, two of which are holdovers from previous years. Run that less-than-50-minute 10K. Despite getting times of 50:15 and 50:20 in 2014, I never made it under 50 minutes, and then my 10K times during 2015 were much slower. … More 2016 goals: A marathon PR, strength training and more
Follow @VanessaJunkin 2015 had to be my slowest running year to date, but there were plenty of good things about my year of running. I ended up logging my slowest times in nearly every race distance. I’m not sure what my slowest 5K race time is, but it was probably this year. I also logged my … More Running Year in Review: 2015
Before I get to wrapping up the entire year of running for 2015 — that’ll be the next post — I’ll take a look back at just December. Here are eight facts about my December running. I ran 89.62 miles. Despite a bit of a push at the end to try to reach my 1,200-mile goal for the … More Eight facts about my December running
I had heard there was a trail at Herring Creek Nature Park in West Ocean City, but I hadn’t ventured out there until Christmas Eve. After doing some last-minute shopping at the outlets in West Ocean City, I turned onto Keyser Point Road from Route 50, as I knew that’s where the trail was, then … More A run at Herring Creek Nature Park
