While 2015 was filled with unexpectedness, this year gave me an opportunity to come into my own.
TH and I experienced our first year living together, alone, as a married couple. Despite our longstanding relationship, we’re still learning how to best help each other. I think a lot of our successes this year stemmed from better mutual support.
I finished a read-able draft of my 2015 NaNoWriMo novel (a zombie novel) and even (gasp) gave it to some alpha readers. I’m gradually fitting in time for research and prep work before my editing.
I learned so much about running and training this year! Incredible amounts. And while I’ve always had fun writing this blog, I almost cried with happiness when I used that knowledge and my engineering/problem-solving background to create a training plan for a fellow runner.
Am I where I want to be as a runner? as a writer? as a coach? as a wife? No. But, I am those things – and as much as this Type-A, ambitious person wants to drive furiously toward success – I step back and am thankful for where I am.
I’m happy to have found “my things” and to be moving within them. Miles are miles. Words on the page are words down. And progress is progress.
2016 Year Recap
January
Long Run Breakfast
I peaked in mileage for my marathon. And I bought a piece of adult-furniture, a dining table (not pictured).
February
From February’s marathon
I completed my 2015 goal by completing a marathon in 4.5 hours.
I also ran the Tybee 10K and won third place in the Flatlanders Canyon Crash 10K.
March
Sunset in Grenada
For our 1 year anniversary, we went on our honeymoon. TH picked out the place and did all the planning, while keeping it a surprise from me.
April
High-fiving the children
I began a 5K training cycle starting with this baseline 5K. And I launched the Facebook page, pivoting from personal blog to training resource.
May
Medal Presentation
Racing season! I won my age group at the small Miles for Meals 5K. I also got a 10K PR and my 2016 goal of a 5K PR on Memorial Day.
June
Hey Ma, open your mouth like this!
I wrote a Yoga Series on the blog and got my wisdom teeth removed. Oakley helped.
July
First run after surgery
A few days after dental surgery, in the heat of summer, I began training for my fall marathon.
August
In August I wrote about my 10 year goal to qualify for the Boston Marathon. I love this goal because it’s a shoot for stars, land on the moon kind of goal.
September
I got my RRCA coaching certification in September. I also put together one of my favorite posts, Runners Try Yoga with interviews from new running yogis.
October
Forsyth Park Clean Up
Hurricane Matthew had us evacuating Savannah at the start of October. My family and house were thankfully safe. We’re still cleaning up debris from the storm.
November
Shirt and Bib
I ran my second marathon of the year and wrote a 50K word novel about a robotics prodigy.
December
I spent the month readying myself to launch training plan design services in 2017. My loves of running, goal setting, charts, problem solving, helping others, and office supplies all merged at this happy intersection, leaving me excited for 2017 and all that it brings.
You had a great year! Definitely in running but also in other life stuff. So glad that we connected via blogs this year, Wishing you the best in 2017!
Thank you! You too!
Your awesome! and I didn’t know that you loved office supplies 😉
Thanks! Haha – post-it notes are my favorite.
Scientists have solved the mystery of a 650-foot mega-tsunami that made the Earth vibrate for 9 days
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It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious vibration that shook the planet for nine days.
Over the past year, dozens of scientists across the world have been trying to figure out what this signal was.
Now they have an answer, according to a new study in the journal Science, and it provides yet another warning that the Arctic is entering “uncharted waters” as humans push global temperatures ever upwards.
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Some seismologists thought their instruments were broken when they started picking up vibrations through the ground back in September, said Stephen Hicks, a study co-author and a seismologist at University College London.
It wasn’t the rich orchestra of high pitches and rumbles you might expect with an earthquake, but more of a monotonous hum, he told CNN. Earthquake signals tend to last for minutes; this one lasted for nine days.
He was baffled, it was “completely unprecedented,” he said.
Seismologists traced the signal to eastern Greenland, but couldn’t pin down a specific location. So they contacted colleagues in Denmark, who had received reports of a landslide-triggered tsunami in a remote part of the region called Dickson Fjord.
The result was a nearly year-long collaboration between 68 scientists across 15 countries, who combed through seismic, satellite and on-the-ground data, as well as simulations of tsunami waves to solve the puzzle.
Scientists have solved the mystery of a 650-foot mega-tsunami that made the Earth vibrate for 9 days
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It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious vibration that shook the planet for nine days.
Over the past year, dozens of scientists across the world have been trying to figure out what this signal was.
Now they have an answer, according to a new study in the journal Science, and it provides yet another warning that the Arctic is entering “uncharted waters” as humans push global temperatures ever upwards.
https://kraken2trfqodidvlh4aa337cpzfrhdlfldhve5nf7njhumwr7insta.cc
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Some seismologists thought their instruments were broken when they started picking up vibrations through the ground back in September, said Stephen Hicks, a study co-author and a seismologist at University College London.
It wasn’t the rich orchestra of high pitches and rumbles you might expect with an earthquake, but more of a monotonous hum, he told CNN. Earthquake signals tend to last for minutes; this one lasted for nine days.
He was baffled, it was “completely unprecedented,” he said.
Seismologists traced the signal to eastern Greenland, but couldn’t pin down a specific location. So they contacted colleagues in Denmark, who had received reports of a landslide-triggered tsunami in a remote part of the region called Dickson Fjord.
The result was a nearly year-long collaboration between 68 scientists across 15 countries, who combed through seismic, satellite and on-the-ground data, as well as simulations of tsunami waves to solve the puzzle.