I know you know I was going to do this highlights posts.
And I know you know your Bloglovin or reader service of choice is going to be flooded with them.
I also know you know you don’t got the time for that.
So, I’ll keep this short and sweet.
The Best Running and Eating of 2013
Top 3 Runs of the year:
1. OC Marathon because that’s where I got a surprise PR (3:36:25) and it’s also where I live so I gotta represent for the OC. what what.
2. Born to Run 50k. I have never run a trail race before BTR. I had never run more than 26.2 miles. Then, I ran 30 miles on a trail in May. Who.Am.I??
I am a girl who is very proud of that ish.
3. This one is hard to choose! My first reaction is Marine Corps because I on some level I felt really alone and yet full of love from all the support on that course. But, I think some of my favorite runs this year were the ones with friends. I was never a social runner, but a lot of that changed this year when I ran Central Park with Tina and around the OC with SR and a relay race too!
(What I learned from my goal to run 13 half marathons this year is coming next!!)
Top 3 Eats:
1. Max Brenner’s Chocolate Fondue in New York during the Sabra trip.
3. Anytime I had ice cream. (RunEatRepeat on Instagram)
Honorable Mention: My favorite day of the year, Thanksgiving is always the best eating day but that’s a given.
Top 3 Posts I Want to REPEAT:
1. How to Lose 10 Pounds <- My April Fool’s Joke that got a crap ton of traffic because even though most of us don’t want to admit it, we want to know how others are losing weight.
This is the vlog where I actually talked about losing weight.
2. Best Half Marathon Training Plans post
3. How to Look Good in a Bikini without Working Out. (Clif’s Notes: Get a tan. Stand up straight.)
Running specific post coming next – stay tuned! Spoiler: I kinda failed.
Question: What are your top 3 favorite runs or eats this year?
My favorite run pretty much each and every year is the Broad Street 10 miler in Philadelphia! I PRd this last year! This last year was also special b/c about 40,000 people ran in red socks as a tribute to Boston. It was quite a sight!
That is awesome about the socks! Congrats on the PR
LOVE THIS and now wanna do my own.
for me.
to inspire my 2014.
Do it Miz 🙂
My favorite run is a race at the site of our proposal (St George Island), vacation run with a large group through the mountains of North Carolina, and any run I did with my fiance 🙂
1)My first Marathon/October
2)Broad street 10 miler/ a week after Boston where runners were asked to wear red socks and about 90% did
3) my first Half/ April Nashville it poured rain the whole 2 hours but it was great to run 13.1 with my daughter who got me into running in my 40’s
My favorite running thing this year was that I actually did races (way more of them then I planned but not 10,000 like you 🙂 )
I also learned to be a lot less picky about food this year and found out that thai food and indian food are amazing and delicious.
We just had beignets in New Orleans this morning : ) The best!!
My top run for 2013 was my half marathon in December – it was my first half and I was so proud crossing that finish line!
My top eat for 2013 was probably discovering the recipe for “Crunchers” on Pinterest. I now make that for every family gathering and eat them up!
My best run: 57 min Bonn night run (Bonner nachtlauf). I PRed with 10 mins less than last year!
Best food: the year I discovered that I acutually love sushi and wanted to eat it all the time
My favorite runs were the 5ks I did this year! I only did three but they were my first 5ks ever so they were awesome and will always be special. 🙂
Congrats on the 5ks! That is awesome – own it!!
I’m still debating it: probably Mull of Kintyre, RnR Dublin and the Perth Kilt Run 🙂 I’ll probably have changed my mind just as I hit ‘submit’!
Roll on 2014!
I had a lot of favorite runs this year! I have to say my very first marathon tops the list – Twin Cities Marathon. I’m also a fan of the San Diego Safari Park Half marathon because it was my husband’s first half marathon! I also enjoyed the Minneapolis Monster Dash Half back in October because I ran the whole thing with a friend I hadn’t seen in awhile and we wore costumes. 2013 was a fun running year!
I have so many favorite runs but I’ll name Beach to Beacon in Maine. Fun fact: My pace for a 10k had been a 10-minute mile. At B2B, I happened to spy YOUR Monican braids ahead of me! I thought “ha! I’ll see how long I can keep pace with RER!”. The result was an 8:30 first mile for me (and then I had to slow back down to 9-10 minute miles, I gotta be me). But I PRd the race AND I was greeted by Joan Benoit at the finish! That was a really fun race! Subsequent 10Ks were PR after PR! It was you who inspired me to run just a little faster and that proved to be transformative! Thank you!
Yeah! That is awesome!! Congrats 🙂
And meanwhile I’m so inspired by your huge PR at the OC Marathon! I think that’s a whole minute per mile faster than when I first started following your blog. You should be so proud.
Your How to Lose 10 pounds post was awesome. I remember being so confused (I was super new to blogging) but now know, it was brilliant.
Favorite run: went for an 8 mile after work run the day of the Boston marathon bombings. It was so cleansing to just get out and run after watching that horror.
Favorite race: Women’s Running Series Scottsdale. Unexpected PR, and gorgeous race.
Favorite Eats: Korean food from Giwa in Philly. It was one of my first “cool” restaurants when I moved to Philly. Its good that its a mile walk and they don’t deliver.
I started reading your blog maybe a month ago.. Anddd I’m hooked and I’m not easy to hook! Anyway while I was grocery shopping I was looking for my weekly bottle of franks red hot sauce when I noticed the sriracha bottles. Long story short I bought the sriracha bottle and I can’t get enough! So thanks for passing your obsession for delicious chili sauce to me!
Thanks for getting hooked!
I think it’s fun to look back at other bloggers’ years and see what they find most memorable or are most proud of! No shame in writing a post like that! 🙂
That’s hilarious about the April Fools joke! You know Google search is just loving that one 😉
I was just in Vegas and had my first Frozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipity and the best gnocchi ever at Bouchon- I’d say that while late in the year, they’re still both really high on my list.
I’m sure I had the frozen hot chocolate, but don’t remember it. That’s sad.
Fave runs: Austin 10/20, Space Coast Marathon, and probably my 2 20 mile training runs with my husband. Fave eat: this is hard, but probably all the amazing seafood I had in Key Largo. Love the end of the year recaps, working on mine too. 🙂
Favorite run: Ironman Louisville. Well, I walked the marathon but still did not have my worst Ironman time. Favorite eats: anything Mexican. I heart burritos.
Congrats on the IM!!!
Just one run – the Hong Kong Vibram 100k where I was a volunteer. Best “running” day ever.
Awesome!
My favorite runs this year were: my 10k PR, my first run back after a femoral stress fracture, and my run with my husband the day I lost my job. That sounds like it would be awful, but that day all I needed was running and my husband – it was perfect!
My favorite runs were the New Jersey marathon where I pr’d with a 4:48
The Trenton half where I pr’d with a 2:07 (after running the NYC marathon 6 days prior)
And my 4th day of the center of the nation series half marathons (5 half marathons in 5 days in 5 states) It was in Montana.
Beautifully scenic. And I was having an emotional moment realizing I was so close to completing my goal. (65.5 miles in 5 days)
Oh gosh. Favorite eats? Halibut fish tacos at a restaurant in pismo beach California when I was on vacation in July and my friends “slutty brownies”.
Congrats on the PR! And I need to get some fish tacos when I get back home 🙂
I am still wondering if your joke was a joke.. 😉
Me too, I do eat a crap ton of Sriracha every day…
Mmmm, Sriracha.
Your April Fools joke cracked me up & still shows the people want the quick fix or want to know the secret to losing weight no matter how many times they try & it does not work.. 🙂 NO quick fix or secret! 🙂