Call me ISE, I’m NOT going to & FINISH LINES!

I did Indy this year!!! It was my first marathon ever and I can not wait to do another marathon!! I seriously finished, hugged my coach, smiled, and said “That was so much fun! When can I do another!”. Finish in 2:57, feeling like I had a lot more to give! Hoping to go for that OTQ one day!! Good luck at CIM!! Have loved watching you train and seeing you kill it in workouts!

I did Indy this year! It was magical. Saw my coach at mile 23 (Lindsey Hein!!). PR’ed by 8 minutes. Went to the live event that night with Deena Kastor and Sally McRae.
I’m scared no other marathon will be as great.
PS do Indy.

Aww the gummy bears. My son does that too, he sneaks little apple sauce packs for me when I travel. It’s so cute.
Oh man, I have mixed feelings on hills right now. I love hilly runs but where we live now is SO flat. The only hills are overpasses and those are just lame. So, I trained so hard this year for my marathon last weekend in my flat, flat, flat neighborhoods and by mile 5 of my SUPER HILLY marathon my legs were toast from all of the hills on the course (and headwinds, but that’s another story)! BUT, luckily I do a lot of strength training so I was able to pull it off for a HUGE PR (3:06!). (I couldn’t be happier with my time, hills or not). The hills are fun to run, but I firmly believe you have to train on them to really run them effectively in a race haha. I’ve never done a Disney race…they look fun though!

Love that your coach gave you that nickname–seems fitting!
I was in the same mindset for dinner last night & also made grilled cheese :) My plan was “packet” dinners (veggies, chicken, bacon & cheese in foil packets on the grill), but I couldn’t manage prepping the veggies or cooking the bacon…tonight instead, I hope.
My nickname growing up was my combined first and last name: CoreyBrown. Everyone called me by both, even my parents did it sometimes! I guess it just flows well. My last name now starts with “Mac,” so I sometimes get variations on that, and a college friend always calls me CJ (first and middle initials).
I seek out the flat courses for races. I’ve heard the changing elevations can be more advantageous, but I haven’t gone for that in the past several years. Maybe I’ll go for that 10th marathon someday and aim for some hills? Just not mountains ~haha~
I don’t know that I have a favorite restaurant, but Chipotle has sounded good to me, lately.

That’s hilarious, what an awesome nickname! In high school people used to call me “big red” (because I’m actually quite small) and have red hair. Also – THOSE MOUNTAINS! Making me miss Utah so much! I don’t know if I have a favorite restaurant, but definitely a favorite snack! (Is that cereal in your mug??) I’m am on the Chex train with you and have been mixing the cinnamon flavour with the peanut butter edition and it is magic! Hope you have a great day :)

You’re going to kill those 10 x 1 miles!!

Those who know me well call me Riss rather than Marissa

I much prefer rollers; I agree that I enjoy the change up!

I did a Disneyland race in 2015 or 16 and it was so fun!! I’m running the Dopey challenge with my husband for his 40th in January and my sister and her husband (she’s 18 years older than me!) are running their very first 1/2 marathon with us in FL. I am so excited!!!

Ooh! I did Indy as well! My very first marathon…and it was not what I trained for or hoped. 5 years ago I sought out the help of my sweet friend who’s a nutritionist and trainer to help me get healthy. I lost 130 pounds and fell in love with running in the process. We’ve lived on 3 different continents since getting healthy so now that we were finally Stateside and stable here in Indy I decided to train for Monumental as my first marathon! My friend wrote out my training plan and I completed 100% of all the trainings – it was basically flawless. Each week saw growth and I was on track for def a sub 5 – around a 11:15mm pace. Two days before Monumental a shooting pain went down the back of my leg and together with my trainer we did everything to help. (Basically things in my gluten are misaligned -still working on it.). It actually calmed down a bit and then the night before the race – my shoulder was in extreme pain. I ended up in the ER that night and didn’t get home till 1:30am. Completely drugged from pain meds, I got up at 4:45 and got ready to run my first 26.2. I’m not sure if this was exactly my best move – but I trained so long and so hard for this…and really it was years in the making – that I had to try. And, my leg was feeling okay . Within one minute of running – that pain shot down the back of my leg – but as my husband said “you gutted out that race”. I crossed the finish line at least 41 minutes over what I wanted – but I finished! I’ve found myself feeling a range of emotions from so happy to angry or why did my body decide to crumble two days before!? It’s def given me fuel the past almost 2 weeks to write out my goals for 2020 and that includes a repeat to Monumental with shaving an hour off my time. Motivation, baby! Just wanted to share my store from Indy. It’s an AMAZING course and one of the best I’ve run! You should totally come and do it!