Running by day, saving lives by night, and planning anytime between. I'm 28 and enjoy running, fitness, food, medicine, crafting, and organizing. I have two Bachelors degrees in Biochemistry and Nursing. I currently and working as a Registered Nurse in the Neonatal ICU in NYC. I'm a small town girl at heart living in the big city to grow my dreams as a neonatal nurse. I love to be productive and organized in my planner and I want to share that all with you! I also enjoy running and racing. I ran the NYC Marathon in 2018 and have done quite a bit of half marathons, some day possibly will do a triathlon!
All about my note taking for classes! I have adapted my ways over the past few semesters while in this nursing program. I think I wrote about my study habits during my first year in the program, so here’s an update of what I’ve been doing. I can’t exactly say that this way has worked for … More My Nursing Notes
I wanted to make a list of races that I want to do in the future. If anyone knows of any good 5K races in California or the Northeast area, let me know! 10Ks: Queens 10k New Balance Bronx 10mile **signed up for 9/17 Women’s Mini 10k **signed up for 6/17 Half … More Race Bucket List
I have had such a hard time completing this entry, clearly since its literally been a year now since the race. I had written most of this last year Sept 2016. I’ll start off by quick just saying that this race I was determined to PR, I had trained and was so ready for it. … More End of Summer Half – Race Day, Dealing with Injury
Hey all! Finally a nursing school update! 1 year down, 1 year to go. Overall, the summer semester has gone by pretty slow. There really has been nothing to crazy to look forward to for my first year of the program. During the fall semester, psych clinical was interesting. Spring, I was looking forward to Pharm … More Summer Nursing Semester – ABSN
I woke up Monday ready to go for some cross training workouts and opened my app to see what was scheduled for the day and this popped up! So after thinking about it, I thought was probably a better idea to not do the 2 CT days I had planned. It usually does make me … More Week 1, Race Week! – End of Summer Half
This week went really well with training! I was able to get in both days of cross training. Skipped the speed workout, which I planned on skipping because I had started this week late with my runs. This week’s tempo run, I ran inside on the treadmill. I bet I could have ran it outside, it … More Running in New Rochelle, 2 weeks out – End of Summer Half
Less than 2 weeks away from race day! Can you believe it?! Okay, well I am kind of getting pretty excited. This race will be my second half, i’ll be running it completely by myself, I won’t know anyone there, it is completely flat, it will be hot, and I am planning on a PR. … More Nike Running Club, 3 weeks out – End of Summer Half
Training for the End of Summer Half is winding down. 3 weeks now to go! I was unsure about running more than 13 miles during my training, however, I went ahead this week and ran the 15 miler. My training plan for Run Less Run Faster goes up to 15 miles during week 4 and … More First 15 miler, Week 4 – End of Summer Half
Monday in all honesty I was planning on skipping out on my long run. Partially because I had so many miles in from last week already (even though most of it came from cross training) and second because I was being lazy. I did it though and it was fine! I made good time too. And … More Birthday week=rest week. Week 5 – End of Summer Half
MONDAY – Rest day TUESDAY – Cross training (in the am): Indoor bike 11.7 miles consisted of 8min easy, 7x(1min hard +2min easy), 10min easy.& Strength training (in the pm): Mountain Athletics strength workout with North Face in the city. Total miles: 11.7 miles. Total time: 40 min. WEDNESDAY – Tempo run: 1.73 mile easy warm … More NYC Triathlon, week 6 – End of Summer Half
New Graduate nurse
Running in northern BC with my dog Kobi
Rants Rambles and Ruminations
Living Life Healthy, Fit, and Happy
Discovering Life One Step at a Time
It's not sweat. It's sparkle.
I run, and I'm [usually] happy. Pretty simple, right?
It's true. I WOULD rather be running.
Born in Brooklyn, Living In Toronto, Chasing Boston
...from TRI's to TRAILS and everything in between
love, run, nurse <3
Kindal Alysse Wallum
Running Commentary of a Dilettante's Life
Lifting in Scrubs 