Tell a friend to tell a friend… she’s baaaack! After a 7-year pandemic-induced hiatus, lululemon made the exciting decision to bring SeaWheeze back in 2026. You KNOW I had to sign up. Might have taken some some nail biting on registration day, but I emerged from the early access gauntlet with a bib. That was January. Now it’s April. Race is in August. Time to start training, eh?

After running myself ragged for the last 4 years, I told myself to put the NYC Marathon down for a year and try focusing a goal that won’t consume my entire life for months on end. Instead of focusing on going the distance, time to see if *maybe* there’s a little speed in there still.

I’ve previously run SeaWheeze in 2016, 2017, and 2018, and have maintained that it’s one of the most gorgeous race courses I’ve ever run on (More comments on that later – I was peeking around the website this morning and found a course map. THEY CHANGED IT!).

My intention is to train for this year’s race at about 85-90%. NHL playoffs start the same week that my 16-week build is, so I am going to be all over the damn place (literally) on tight turnarounds and little to 0 advance notice of where I’m flying to in the next 0-48h.

Not ideal for, you know… structure. What does a flawless execution of a training plan require? Structure. But I live a life of nuance for the next couple of months, so… I’m aiming for a B+.

So, what’s the plan?

I am going to use Runna once more to keep my arse in line. Despite blowing up in NYC on marathon day (my own damn fault, I felt fast and chose to FAFO and honestly I’d probably do it again), I felt in shape and ready for a happy and strong race day because I used Runna as a base framework. So I’m going to do it again.

4 Runs, 2 Strength Sessions a week. Anything else is gravy. (Hot girl walks, stretching, mobility, etc)

What’s New?

It’s going to be interesting to approach SeaWheeze this go around, because I am in different life and content creator eras than I was in back in 2018.

Professionally, I still worked a somewhat predictable 9-5 in 2018. There was travel, but it wasn’t all the time. My job was pretty low stakes. Now, I’m all over the place, make decisions, and am in charge of both things and people.

I was a lululemon junkie who kept up with Tuesday evening uploads religiously, and dropped $1100 in the Showcase Store without batting an eyelash. That showcase store was my OLYMPICS. Reflective gear? The Holy Grail.

Fast forward… I spent less than $1000 at lululemon in the entirety of 2024. I no longer update this site on a weekly basis, fawning over new outfits. I have bazillions of perfect were-once-new-in-2018 outfits that still fit and perform perfectly well, and I wear them.

Running’s running the show.

We all already know I gassed myself out on athleisure content, struggling to keep up with the fast fashion rat race. (Read: What happened to my lululemon content?) My priorities shifted.

I have always enjoyed creating content, but I needed a new topic. What have I been deeply into since 2015? Running!

I started dabbling in TikTok back in 2021 as I trained for RnR San Diego Half Marathon, and ended up falling into RunTok quite happily. Since then, running has been the focus of my content across platforms. I’ve somehow yapped myself into oblivion over on Threads enough to be tagged a Running Community Champion on the platform. It’s my favorite corner of the internet. No photos or videos to spend time obsessively editing. Just words. Maybe a snap or two from the camera roll. Conversation. That, I can keep up with.

What’s my niche in the running space? Data. Silly stats. Technicolor graphs. Technicolor graphs about weekly mileage and technicolor outfits.

I’ve been invited by Meta to join them in NYC this weekend to geek out over the Oakley & Ray-Ban Metas together. TBH I’ve been curious since they were released (do I really need another piece of gak to capture content?), and am veritably stoked to tinker with a new gadget that can merge content and data all at once. I was messing with the community pair in Best Buy recently, but they’re not going to let you take them for a test run, and put them through their paces (pun intended).

Older, Wiser, and Falling Apart

As of this writing, I’ve run 6559.8 miles since last crossing the SeaWheeze finish line in Vancouver in 2018. No biggie, just the equivalent of running from Boston to Seattle and back. So, I’ve run a few miles and learned a few things.

I’m older. Injuries have happened. I’ve completed 3 marathons, earned my RRCA coaching certificate, and worked with a Sports Dietitian to learn about proper fueling for long distances. I’m physically and mentally more experienced.

While I have time goals, they aren’t my sole indicators of success, like they were before. If I couldn’t hold a 9min pace like Joanna prescribed for as long as I thought I should be able to, I’d be all up in my head about it for weeks.

Now? Did I hold on for as long as I could? Yes? Ok? Did I hit or exceed my paces? Fuck yeah, bonus points.

I still want to try and run fast, but if I blow up, my friends and family don’t give a fuck what the clock says when I cross the line.

So yeah.

My A goal for SeaWheeze? Get there. Get to that start line healthy, happy, and ready to have a strong day.

How am I going to do that?

One step at a time.