The idea of a Wonder Woman race intrigued me. Who doesn’t wanna harness their inner Super Shero? When I heard the Inaugural Wonder Woman Chicago would be in Gurnee, Illiniois, I was in. Since I’m out here in the Northern Chi sticks, Gurnee is an easy peasy drive, while downtown Chicago is an all day [Read More]
5 Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Race and How to Avoid Them
This week our Tuesdays on the Run Linkup is all about race day mistakes. Have you made one/some? I sure have, and I lived to tell about them. Going Out Too Fast. We all do it, I still do it sometimes, and I’ve paid dearly for it. Blasting off the starting line is so tempting [Read More]
Gasparilla Race Weekend: Things to Do in Tampa
You heard all about the Gasparilla races here and here. Now it’s time to tell you about the rest of our shenanigans, activities and places we enjoyed in Tampa. What would a Tampa race weekend be without food? From carb-loading to post-race refuel and recovery, food is at the top of every runner’s list. Thanks to [Read More]
Berlin Marathon Race Report
I’ve made you wait long enough but the wait is over. The Berlin Marathon Race Report is here. When we left off yesterday, the starting gun for Wave 2 of the Berlin Marathon had sounded and I was off, doing a slow shuffle across the timing mats with 42k of my newest friends. As you’d [Read More]
Panama City Beach Half Marathon
This week the Tuesdays on the Run Linkup asks “What has running taught you?” Oh grasshopper, running has taught me so many things. Patience, perseverance, goal setting, managing stress, you name it, there’s a lesson. Just this past weekend in Florida, I had yet another epiphany, which I’ll share at the end of this race [Read More]
HOLottaFun in Panama City Beach!
Happy Monday! I am still glowing from a wonderful race-cation weekend in Paradise with some of my bestest blogger friends. Because I am fresh off a very late flight back to snowy Chicago, I’m going to spare you my workouts for the week (no running, some swim and strength, ’nuff said), and cut to the [Read More]
How to Run Your Best Marathon
This week on the Tuesdays on the Run linkup, we’re giving you a do-over. Aren’t we sweet? IF you had a chance to revisit a particular race, and run it again, either because you’d like to train for or run it differently than the way you did the first time around, or you’d like to [Read More]
RocknRoll St. Louis
Our Tuesdays on the Run topic this week is a Fall Goals Checkup. Did you set some? How’s your progress toward achieving them? Off the top of my head I could not even think of what goals I may have set. I took a guess and said this was the year of new running adventures: [Read More]
What to Do with Race Memorabilia?
This week our Tuesdays on the Run Linkup topic is Race Memorabilia. We’re talking about bibs, medals, finisher certificates, heat sheets, everything you might get at a race. Tell us about your faves, the weird ones you’ve gotten and what you do with them. Are you a collector who saves them for posterity? A saver [Read More]
