Who is the Sportyfish? Why, it’s Shellyfish!

I’ve been athletic all my life: I participated in a multitude of sports as a kid, but more specifically dance, and it was dance that won out when I was an adolescent. I was a dancer & official professional bun-head for a many years, but stopped dancing in 2001.

I swapped my point shoes for weights and became a gym rat, lifting several times a week and practicing yoga and pilates. Running for me was a necessary evil to be tolerated to warm up for weight lifting.

After a long and complicated pregnancy where I was home-bound for 6 months, and mostly off my feet entirely, I began dreaming of running. My forced inactivity gave birth to a new fantasy : becomming a runner. I began running in September 2005 and became a running-addicted fish, and that is my primary poison.

So far I’ve run a 10-K (December 2005), a 20-K (September 2006), and a half-marathon (March 2007). My intention was to run another half-marathon Spring 2008, but I fell victim to my own enthusiasm and wasn’t able to run due to over-training. Trying to learn from my mistakes, I am now planning on running my first marathon in April, 2009.

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