Happy Blogiversary to me!

It's crazy to think that five years ago yesterday, I was sitting in my sophomore year dorm room debating whether or not I should sign up for my first marathon.

I can so clearly picture sitting at my standard dorm-issue desk in my not so comfortable desk chair starring at the Baltimore Marathon website on my monitor.

My roommate was sitting a few feet away encouraging me to hit the submit button.


"Just let me check Notre Dame's football schedule," I said. "If they have a bye that Saturday, I'll take it as a sign I'm meant to run this race."

So I hopped over to Notre Dame's website, checked the football schedule and was stunned to see the team did in fact have a bye.

I clicked back over to the marathon website, took a deep breath and hit submit.

And then my roommate and I squealed a lot in high pitches voices. Would you expect anything else? We were sophomores in college.

After the "Omgs" and the "I can't believe you're going to run a marathon"s died down, I remember logging in to Blogger and starting this blog.

I wanted a place where I could track all my runs and measure my progress, and that's how this little blog was born.

A lot has changed in five years:






And I've blogged through the entire process. Thanks to everyone who has followed along this crazy process with me. It's been a blast so far, and it definitely wouldn't be the same without you.