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Category: 2011 National 1/2 Marathon

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One month since the @eugenemarathon. Already feel

One month since the @eugenemarathon.
Already feels like a lifetime ago.
Already feels like I wanna do it again.
🤪
(Not anytime soon. Not this year. But kinda sorta totally want to give 26.2 another go… Someday. At some point. When the time is right. IDK. Maybe. Probably. Totally.)

Another picture-perfect work-meets-play Memorial D

Another picture-perfect work-meets-play Memorial Day Weekend in Traverse City, MI.
I hosted a live show with @emmajanelbates, met tons of friends at the post-show meet-and-greet, and got to be the start and finish line announcer at the @tctcbayshore Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K, and kids race.
And when I wasn’t on the mic, we went all-in on family time. We shopped on Front Street (@lululemon for me, @toyharbortc for Annie, @cherryrepublictraversecity for Brian), went to half a dozen parks and playgrounds, swam in the hotel pool (hot tub for me), climbed the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes again (thought we’d make it the whole way, now that Annie is a year older than last time, but LOL, nope, made it to the exact same spot as last year before Annie started to roll down the opposite way), and went to @marivineyards.
Happy to be back in New Hampshire (just wish my bag made it, too — I totally jinxed this after giving an impassioned “I love gate-checking my bag!” speech at the live show), and ready for a low-key, travel-free summer at home.
😎

I know @emmajanelbates has a lot of fans. Super fa

I know @emmajanelbates has a lot of fans. Super fans, even.
I got to see it firsthand yesterday. More than 170 people spent their Thursday afternoon with us, at a live show at the most beautiful, coolest venue in downtown Traverse City.
One woman drove 11 hours (each way!) to be there. Another shared her story of losing her baby earlier this year, and finding the strength to train for and run the Bayshore Marathon this weekend. Some made girls’ weekends and trips out of the event. Others showed up as strangers and left as friends. One made us friendship bracelets, and more than one likened the show to “a runner’s Taylor Swift concert,” which… 😭 Many, many were there before needing to pick up their kids from various youth sports practices and games.
This was my fifth live show of the year, and my last one for a bit, as I’m planning a chill, low-key summer at home.
And dare I say, we went out (just for now, not forever!) with a bang, some beauty secrets, a whole lotta hot takes, and a very important conversation about the merits of the High School Musical franchise.
As for the Emma Bates fandom: Annie is president of the club. (She was devastated Emma slept in her own hotel room last night and not in ours, and she asked for Emma as soon as she woke up.) I’m second in command.
Thank you @tctcbayshore for having the Feller-Cristianos back at Bayshore. We sure do love it here.

Had the best time running 13.1 miles from Prospect

Had the best time running 13.1 miles from Prospect Park to Coney Island with my girls.
Three weeks post Eugene, and the only goal was to enjoy this run. Which I did. I totally did.
For the second year in a row, I got to run the entire race with @marywruns — my idol turned advocate turned “Rebecca to my Keely.” Mary has become so much more than a friend and a mentor to me, and if I think about that too much, and about how lucky I am, I’ll get all weepy.
At mile 7, we saw @jessmovold off to the side, cheering with @conor_nickel and @zachacole. I panicked, thinking something had happened and she dropped out.
But she was all smiles. “I just wanted to run with you two for a while!”
And then I got to run the next 3.1 miles flanked by two of the best, kindest, strongest women I know.
Grateful for the miles, the friends (new and old — thanks to everyone who cheered, everyone who said hi along the way, and the shocking number of people who said, “You look just like Ali on the Run!” 😂), and the bacon egg and cheese bagel in bed afterward.
Saturday races FTW.
Next stop: HOME.
📸: @jzsnapz & @bhgross

Motherhood. It’s being up all night with a poop

Motherhood.
It’s being up all night with a pooping, puking, still somehow adorable 4-year-old. It’s carrying her to the bathroom as fast as you can while she vomits down your back.
It’s cleaning her, cleaning you, cleaning the sheets, putting buckets and towels everywhere, and watching her sleep while wishing you could take her pain and discomfort away.
It’s finally getting 2.5 snuggly hours of sleep, holding each other tightly.
It’s being woken up by that child, proclaiming excitedly, “I’m not throwing up anymore!”
It’s relief. It’s a constant worry.
And then, a few hours later, it’s being asked, unprompted, “Mommy, do you feel happy?”
“I do,” I reply. “I feel happy every day. Do you know why?”
“Why?”
“Because of you. You make me feel happy every day. Even on the days when I might be sad or I’m having a hard day. You make me feel happy.”
“And you make me feel loved every day, Mommy. And I love you!”
🥹
It’s hard. It’s messy. It’s beautiful.
It’s my greatest joy.
Every day.
Here’s to a meaningful Mother’s Day, however that looks for you today. ♥️

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