LosAngelesRunner
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2022
Hi everyone! I have been so enjoying reading the other training journals, so I feel like it's time for me to start posting here too.
My name's Grant and I'm a 27 year old based in Los Angeles. I work in the entertainment industry out here and have a lot of travel planned this fall, so I figure a training journal with you all with help hold me a little more accountable to get the runs in and give me something to look back on as I progress. Big Disney fan here (obviously!) - grew up as a Disneyland passholder, been on too many Disney Cruises, and in 2019 I checked off my bucket list item of visiting every Disney park in the world when I visited Hong Kong (see below)!
Over the past few years, I've been loving getting more and more into running. I ran the 2020 Los Angeles Marathon in March of that year... which probably should have been cancelled because of the pandemic. The race went... fine... in the sense that I finished but with a super bruised foot that felt broken and my nutrition strategy was definitely inadequate. My clock was 4:50:27 that year. Fast forward, and I ran the 2022 WDW Marathon and felt GREAT during the race (new nutrition strategy and better shoes ftw!) - eventually finishing with a time of 4:38:41 which I was super happy with, though the very bottlenecked start that we're all familiar with crushed my hopes early on of the elusive sub-4:30 marathon that I'm still aiming for one day...
Enjoy the below two faces that really sum up my love/hate of running, too.
I'm currently training for the Santa Rosa Half Marathon (somehow my first half despite having two fulls under my belt!) at the end of August with a great plan that @DopeyBadger put together for me. It's been going well, and I'm very hopeful the train slow, race fast strategy will pay off with a sub-2:00 half in August (or at the very least a time that will put me in a front corral for MW 2023 where I'm running Dopey plus the Castaway Cay 5K!). I may end up doing a few 5K or 10Ks in the fall before Dopey, but will figure it out as we get closer.
I'll recap this past week's training in the next post, but I'm excited to be here with you!
My name's Grant and I'm a 27 year old based in Los Angeles. I work in the entertainment industry out here and have a lot of travel planned this fall, so I figure a training journal with you all with help hold me a little more accountable to get the runs in and give me something to look back on as I progress. Big Disney fan here (obviously!) - grew up as a Disneyland passholder, been on too many Disney Cruises, and in 2019 I checked off my bucket list item of visiting every Disney park in the world when I visited Hong Kong (see below)!
Over the past few years, I've been loving getting more and more into running. I ran the 2020 Los Angeles Marathon in March of that year... which probably should have been cancelled because of the pandemic. The race went... fine... in the sense that I finished but with a super bruised foot that felt broken and my nutrition strategy was definitely inadequate. My clock was 4:50:27 that year. Fast forward, and I ran the 2022 WDW Marathon and felt GREAT during the race (new nutrition strategy and better shoes ftw!) - eventually finishing with a time of 4:38:41 which I was super happy with, though the very bottlenecked start that we're all familiar with crushed my hopes early on of the elusive sub-4:30 marathon that I'm still aiming for one day...
Enjoy the below two faces that really sum up my love/hate of running, too.
I'm currently training for the Santa Rosa Half Marathon (somehow my first half despite having two fulls under my belt!) at the end of August with a great plan that @DopeyBadger put together for me. It's been going well, and I'm very hopeful the train slow, race fast strategy will pay off with a sub-2:00 half in August (or at the very least a time that will put me in a front corral for MW 2023 where I'm running Dopey plus the Castaway Cay 5K!). I may end up doing a few 5K or 10Ks in the fall before Dopey, but will figure it out as we get closer.
I'll recap this past week's training in the next post, but I'm excited to be here with you!