March Madness.....

I would really like to say that I have been running, but I can't. We are in week 2 and I ran twice last week. I pulled out a 3 and a 4 miler. BUT I have increased my gym time to four times last week. WHOOP WHOOP!

A few things have happened over the last couple of weeks. I was contacted by Melissa Rogers of KHTS radio show of Santa Clarita. She said they are hosting the Home and Garden show and would love for me to have a booth. WHAT? ME? I looked into it and decided this might be a way to get my name and super small, microscopic business out there in the big world. For those of you who don't know, I make race medal displays so that you can hang your hard earned medals from. I've been asked if I'm making a profit yet. NOPE. I can 100% say that I am not. I keep buying little things to improve each medal display and I just love making them. I have sold quite a few but I'm not quite at the profit making stage yet. I'm hoping that with this Home and Garden show and the SoCal Women's Wine Country half marathon that I will then be making a profit.  The only problem is that I don't really have race medal displays to actually have at the booth, so I will again, have to spend money to make some. I mean, I do have the original boards that I made when I set up my Etsy account but those have hand painted letters and I've stepped my game up by switching to vinyl lettering. It looks so much better than the hand painted ones. SO I will have the hand painted ones on display, but I also need the new ones. This worries me because I usually make them to order. Having a bunch on hand could lead to just that....having a bunch on hand that I won't sell.  The Home and Garden show is March 30th so I do have time to prepare.

The second thing that happened was that the other day, I decided to start a website. I was asked by the race director of the SoCal Wine Country Women's half marathon for my website so that he could list it on his webpage. I was a little embarrassed to say that I didn't have a webpage and I had to give him a link to my Etsy account. So now I am a webpage owner and my site is: www.ordinaryrunnershop.com. I really wanted ordinaryrunner but that was already taken so I had to add in the shop. We shall see how it goes. Maybe one day it will take off but right now, it's slow going. I sell around 3 race medal displays a month.

Well, my next big race is the Rock n Roll Dallas half marathon. I am running it with my sister who lives in Indiana. It will be our second half marathon together (the first being the Indianapolis Monumental half marathon). It should be a really fun weekend. We are staying at the host hotel so all we have to do is wake up on race day and walk out the door. That will be so nice. Plus the vibe around the hotel will be exciting.

I do plan on running four times this week. I cut the tip of my thumb off yesterday morning so I took yesterday off from running and the gym. On Sunday I am doing a 3k walk with my pigs and then the same night I am doing the One Run for Boston, stage 5 run at 10pm. That will be an 8 mile run. I'm really excited about that run.

So, until this weekend, get out there and run...send me the good running vibes that I need. :)