My friends and I signed up to run the Richmond marathon, which took place this past weekend. Ally and Emily joined a training team to prepare for running the 26.2 miles. I did nothing of the sort. I was too cheap to pay more than the race fee and also thought I wouldn’t be around enough on weekends to justify the purchase (which has turned out to be true), plus if I was around, who wants to commit to waking up at 6:30 AM on a weekend?

I also had the master plan of tracking my friends’ mileage on Strava (an app where you post your running routes) and mimicking their training schedule. I could do this for free.

I’ll be honest. Training did not go as expected. I thought I’d be running longer distances on the reg and get into the groove. In college I regularly ran half marathons on my own just because. That is not my life today