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forestbound saturday april 22 2017 on running i ve been taking a break from running for over 6 months now a big part of this break is due to a nagging pain in my back that i just can t seem to figure out but a larger part of this that i ve had a hard time coming to terms with is that running stopped making me happy and started to become emotionally destructive when my dad was really sick a few years ago running gave me a way to channel all my devastation and heartbreak into something that gave me hope running made me feel strong emotionally during a time in my life when it would have been really easy to just crumble right after my dad died marathon training was the thing that got me out of bed every day it gave me something to focus on that wasn t my own grief the marathon i ran 5 months after my dad died was my strongest and fastest ever it made me happy i felt proud and i felt good and i did it all for him but after that my relationship with running began to fumble i kept pushing myself the same way i always had but looking back on it now i realize that wasn t what i needed at all i continued grinding it out through another marathon training cycle because it s what i had come to know as normal except this time things weren t clicking i had this nagging pain in my back that wouldn t go away and i started doubting myself as a runner even though i was running faster than i ever had before and then it was time for boston 2016 the marathon i had been dreaming of for years and years in the days leading up to boston my gut was telling me something was off but i ignored it every training run over the past 16 weeks had been perfect so what could be wrong i remember putting greg my brother s phone numbers on the back of my bib just in case something happened to me during the race and i came up with a plan in my head of what i d do if i dnfed along the course dnf did not finish these were things i had never considered leading up to races in the past i think because previously i had been in the right mental state feeling confident and ready to race then race day happened and 10 miles in i crumbled i was perfectly hydrated perfectly fueled perfectly prepped but the heat got to me and honestly my own emotions got to me my mind just wasn t in the game and my body reacted to that i finished boston 2016 with the help of medical tents my friends family on the sidelines and my intense fear of failure but i wasn t proud of myself i was actually really ashamed my finish time was exactly 4 hours the slowest marathon i have ever run by a long shot i was trained to run a 3 10 marathon easily and 4 hours was straight up embarrassing that s not the kind of runner i am i don t run to just finish a marathon i run to excel running a 4 hour marathon was like putting my guard down and letting everyone around me see all my weaknesses all the cracks in my armor and that made me want to run away and hide everyone around me was telling me that just finishing a marathon while experiencing heat stroke is an incredible accomplishment and i should be so proud i smiled and agreed and told them all i was feeling proud but honestly i wasn t feeling that at all and that s when i started to understand that even though running has brought so much positivity into my life it had now morphed into something emotionally destructive the years of grinding it out nonstop with marathon training and with running a business all while trying to process the illness and eventual death of the most important person in my life had caught up to me running wasn t helping me deal with the loss of my dad anymore it was just masking it the thought of going out on a run just because it made me happy had become so foreign it wasn t even an option i gave myself every run had to be taken very seriously had to be structured and intentional and then i realized that i wasn t allowing any room to be easy on myself to give myself a break so i stopped running honestly it s been really really good i am going on walks instead of runs i am letting myself stay in bed a bit longer in the mornings and i m reading books instead of stretching for an hour every day with the help of some wonderful friends and a really great therapist i m starting to understand what life looks like without my dad i m trying to figure out what makes me truly happy and fulfilled and i can t quite say what that looks like just yet but i know that i ll only figure it out by giving my heart and mind the space to heal and become healthy again i know that running will forever be a part of my life and running a 3 10 marathon is still something i think about almost daily but i want to approach running again slowly and be sure that the most important part is feeing happy and fulfilled remembering the reasons why running changed my life for the better in the first place posted by forest bound at 8 39 am 9 comments wednesday february 22 2017 winter travels a few photos from our weekend away at a super cozy cabin in the berkshires i m working on a new travel blog where i can better document all these cabins and getaways so stay tuned posted by forest bound at 2 14 pm no comments friday december 16 2016 allied i was honored to create a collection of one of a kind bags for select cast crew of the new wwii movie allied using wwii era materials that were all very thoughtfully chosen to correlate to the movie s time period this was an incredibly fun project to work on and i feel very fortunate that i got to put all my old canvas nerdiness to use and be sure to go see the movie it s brilliant alice posted by forest bound at 11 50 am 1 comment sunday december 11 2016 shop local shop forestbound this holiday season you can find forestbound bags at two great local shops a selection of forestbound originals are at olives grace in the south end if you haven t been there yet go immediately trust me you ll want to need to buy everything and you can find escape bags at loyal supply co in union sq somerville right around the corner from the forestbound studio i ve decided to not do any in person events this year and instead just focus all my efforts on the online shop so if you need a few last minute forestbound gifts in boston check out these two great shops posted by forest bound at 7 28 am 1 comment friday november 25 2016 winter i holed up in this secluded cabin for two days earlier this week it was the perfect bit of calm after a month of taking zero days off and before another month of zero days off i love what i do but jeeze the months leading up to christmas are just so so busy a good book the nightingale have you read it i can t put it down a nice bottle of wine and long mornings in bed were just what i needed to power back up and get ready for the holiday madness that is now upon us speaking of holiday the 2016 black friday totes sold out in 2 5 hours i think that may be a new record thank you so much right now i m offering free shipping on all orders over 125 and stay tuned for lots of other fun sales over the next few days and weeks i feel so so so thankful to have all of you out there as customers followers friends and family hope you had the best thanksgiving posted by forest bound at 7 53 am no comments wednesday november 23 2016 2016 50 tote bag hard to believe it s already the holidays but that means our annual 50 black friday tote bag sale is only a few days away and here s the design i made for this year doing my best to put as much peace and kindness out there into the world and since making bags is what i do it seemed appropriate to put that message on our 2016 tote hope you love it the bags will be available starting at 7am est on friday morning on our website like always we only make a limited quantity of them so act quick they normally sell out in a few hours i ll be running a few other sales over the weekend as well so make sure to sign up for our mailing list to get all the details posted by forest bound at 7 59 am no comments sunday november 6 2016 navy blue happy to welcome a new color to the escape bag family hi navy blue also happy to constantly be collaborating with such inspiring people always keeping me on my toes many thanks to dana for the photos and dayna for modeling posted by forest bound at 5 36 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom say hello alice forestbound com search this blog find me here online shop instagram facebook twitter forestbound com forestbound mailing list email address close blogs to read 10engines an ambitious project collapsing an apple a day banditphotographer blog clever nettle danken danken danken danken eggs wool enhabiten fieldguided foxtail fern grit steel identical eye indian summer vintage lawrence montmartre s sketchbook odette new york popcorn plays rivet head saipua sanforized spartan journal teenangster whole larder love simple theme powered by blogger