Since I was lucky enough to be tagged again, here are 10 more: 1. When I make it through the week without throwing away any produce.2. A thatch of sage that was the centerpiece at a Bat Mitzvah many moons ago and now resides out on my deck. It survives and thrives through these obnoxiously [Read More]
Archives for 2010
A Fun Recipe For the Kiddos
And for the young at heart, which is all of us right? I get tons of requests for healthy(ier) meals for kids.Mine are quite picky so that’s a big challenge for me. Some of the few things they will eat are breakfast items like pancakes, waffles, and french toast, I make those a little ‘more [Read More]
Training Recap
Geez are Mondays coming faster than ever before? I feel like I’m doing one of these recaps everytime I turn around lately!Boston Training Week #4 is Complete! 41 milesHere’s how it went:Monday: SRDTuesday: Speedwork (5x1000m) and yoga.Wednesday: 10 miles and weightsThursday: 1/2 hour Kettleworx DVDsFriday: 7 miles, with 10k of that at race pace for [Read More]
Virtual 10k Race Report: Game On!
I must admit I jumped the gun and ran this a day early. After single parenting for 2 weeks now, a busy mom’s gotta do what she has to do to squeeze her runs in. Not to mention that a race paced 10k would have made Sunday’s first 20-miler of the training cycle sheer hell. [Read More]
10-Mile Cry
I had a million reasons to skip this morning’s run. Raw temps with biting winds, fatigue after yesterday’s speedwork, I’ve been neglecting the weights, the dogs consumed an entire box of 64 Crayolas and excreted a spectrum of ‘treats’ for me on the carpet, pick an excuse any excuse.But today more than ever, I needed [Read More]
Anniversary Giveaway
The entries have been counted, the numbers put through the handy dandy random number generator. I am happy to announce the lucky winner of the First Anniversary Giveaway, sponsored by: Geri Virtue! Congrats! Please email me your contact info so I can pass it along! Surprise! There’s also a gift for everyone! Erin at Picture [Read More]
Find Your Edge
Source: Wasserman In yoga the other day the instructor kept saying “find your edge” as a way of motivating us to press just a bit harder (without rupturing anything hopefully), not enough to feel pain, or so hard that we stopped breathing, but just to that, well, edge. That got me to thinking about other [Read More]
Training Recap
Boston Training Week 3 is complete! 40 milesHere’s how the week went: Monday: SRD Tuesday: Ladder workout: 1200m, 1000m, 800m, 600m, 400m; yoga class at night. The ladder got ridiculously hard by the time I got into the 800. Thankfully it was almost over by then! Wednesday: FIRST+ 10 miler with BBTN weights afterward Thursday: 7 mile [Read More]
Beautiful Blogger Award
Thank you to Anne at Asthma and the Gift of Running for the esteemed Beautiful Blogger Award! I am truly honored! If you haven’t visited Anne’s blog, stop by and say hi! One of the requirements of this award is that I share 7 things about myself so here goes: 1. Modern Caveman and I started dating [Read More]
It’s Probably Nothing…
Thank you all so much for the support and good wishes. I’m back from the dreaded annual physical. Thank my lucky stars the papers containing my bloodwork results were glowing so brightly I almost had to wear shades!Cholesterol Ratio: perfectoTriglycerides: almost non-existantGood Cholesterol: through the roofFasting Glucose: mighty fine…and so it went. I’d just finished [Read More]
