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Meet Elizabeth

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Welcome to Running for Robert! I’m Elizabeth, a 27 year-old certified running coach living in Boston, and running marathons in memory of my older brother, Robert. Running for Robert documents my journey to qualify for the Boston Marathon and beyond, while sharing the struggles and successes I’ve faced throughout my journey.

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Certified May 2018

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First tempo run of 2020 and my legs were like, “da fuq is this?!”🤣 Felt really good to get some faster miles in. Ready for a solid winter of training!❄️❄️❄️ 1 up, 3 tempo, 1 cool Lower body strengthening from @madeline_moves
Just over here making my weaknesses (ahem, strength training) into my strengths. Pushups are hard, commandos are really hard, basically it’s all hard! But that’s okay. Getting stronger isn’t easy, so I’m just gonna commit to it like I do with my running and see what happens this winter and spring, and hopefully come summer pushups won’t be nearly as deadly🤣 #StrongestSelf
I wanted to run long today because of the warm temps and settled on 10 easy paced miles. This run felt long! Really long! Like as long as a marathon!😂 #dramatic But really, when you’re in the middle of marathon training, 10 miles doesn’t seem like much. But when you haven’t trained for a full since last spring, it feels like F O R E V E R😅 I had fun but was happy to be done🤣 Followed up with lower body strengthening. Happy Saturday!💗
Oh how my Friday’s have changed...When I began my running & healthier lifestyle journey in 2015, I was dedicated to eating healthier food but was still silently battling binge eating disorder. I would use Friday’s as my “cheat day” and save all the “bad” food for that one day. I purposely made Friday my rest day so as soon as I got home from work I’d just lie on the couch and binge. Cereal, cookies, granola bars, chips...all the “bad” food I had saved and hidden away would now turn into a free for all. By the time dinner rolled around, I’d be so full I’d have shooting pains in my stomach, and sometimes would feel like I was about to get sick. This effected my emotions and mentality. I was irritable and not completely happy with myself because I couldn’t stop this behavior. And no one knew I was struggling because I didn’t tell anyone. Now, after a few years of working towards recovery, the best way to describe how I feel is “free”. I no longer use Friday’s as a cheat day. I look forward to my Friday workouts, and am happy with who I am. It’s been a long road to recovery, and not all days are perfect, but I’m so happy with the person I’ve become. I love this feeling of freedom💫
My workout buddy for the past few weeks for both running & strength training. Always nice to have someone tell me how my form is!😂👍🏼💪🏼
Back to Boston, back to a routine, and back to work tomorrow! I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to achieve in 2020, and while I know life throws curveballs and not everything can be planned, I’ve got a solid plan on how I’m going to achieve what I want and grow. Coming out of 2019, I did a lot of reflecting and while I’m proud of how I supported both my husband and me, I feel like I took a lot of steps backwards in other areas of my life. It’s hard when it’s an entire year that really is just “meh”, but Kyle has reminded me that I have come so far in the past 5 years. Like miles and miles and miles! I don’t even know how I functioned when I think about the person I used to be. 2015-2018 were steps forward, 2019 was a step back. 2020 is going to be a big step forward and I’m confident in myself that it’ll be one to remember. What’s one thing you want to accomplish this year?
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