About Me

My name is Emily Utley. I am a wife to a fabulous husband, Gabe, and mom to 2 girls, Paige and Sophie. My girls will be 5 & 3 this fall. Besides taking care of my little family, I also have a children’s portrait photography business, Emily Jane Photography. Ever since high school, I have enjoyed running. I run to stay in shape, but also because I love the way I feel when I do it. In college, I started running marathons, and have completed 6 marathons. I even qualified for the Boston Marathon, but didn’t end up running it because my wedding was within a couple of weeks of the race, and with the stress of planning a wedding, I just couldn’t fit in the training. My last marathon was about a year after Paige (my 5 year old was born). I planned to run one after Sophie was born, but got injured, and didn’t do it. I have done some shorter races. Generally, I eat pretty healthy, but I tend to rationalize any treats, etc, by saying to myself that I run, so I’ll burn it off. Well, the past couple of years I haven’t run as hard, and it has caught up with me. My “happy” weight is 125, but I would love to push past that. One of my challenges this past while is that I have been trying to get pregnant for the last year or so, and so I think on some level, I have told myself that when I get pregnant, I’m just going to gain weight anyway, so I don’t work as hard to lose what I’d like to lose right now. But really, I’d be much happier if I was smaller before I get pregnant. Trying to get pregnant is another reason that I haven’t trained for a race – I didn’t want to train, and then not get to do the race because of a pregnancy. It’s frustrating to be in a bit of limbo as far as that is concerned. So what I am trying to do now is to keep setting goals and moving forward, because I have no idea how long it might take us.