This month’s recipe is something I made for my mother the other day. With Mother’s Day around the corner, for those of you with moms that are preposterously hard to buy for, as mine is, I may have the answer for you. My mom lives alone, does not have many/any hobbies beyond doing things for [Read More]
Archives for 2010
Ultimate Sports Mom Contest
Calling All Sports MomsTo help launch new Shamrock Farms Rockin’ Refuel chocolate milk to active families across the country, they are sponsoring a national blogger contest. Rockin’ Refuel is a delicious, protein-fortified milk that includes 20 grams of protein, nine essential nutrients and vitamins; as well as, naturally-occurring electrolytes. It’s a great-tasting way for kids to refuel [Read More]
Questions I Get Questions…
First welcome new bloggy A-listers! It’s great to have you here! Since running…um here’s that B-word again…Boston…you’ve inundated my inbox with questions. I love it!Without further ado, some answers for those inquiring minds: What was your fueling strategy for Boston?Because my wave went off at 10:30 (late in marathon terms) I had time for not [Read More]
After The Boston Marathon: Resting Recap!
Week 1 Apres Boston Marathon is complete: 34.6 miles Here’s how the week shook out: Monday: Ran the Boston Marathon well walked too but we won’t talk about that, 26.2 miles. Tuesday: SRD. Just the front of my thighs are tender, really not bad at all. Wednesday: Yoga, corework. Soreness getting better not worse. Hooray! Thursday: [Read More]
Three Things Thursday
Happy Earth DayI’m pretty good about being green: I recycle, keep lights off unless necessary, keep the heat low, etc. Something new I’m going to try is kitchen composting…meaning collecting eggshells, coffee grounds, fruit/veggie scraps, composting them and using it to enrich our garden. What are you doing to be more eco-conscious? Bring Your Kids to [Read More]
Boston Marathon 2010 Race Report
I could gush on for days about the Boston experience but I’ll spare you. I’ve done my best to condense it and hit the highlights. It was a wonderful weekend. First a few pics, leading up to race day: It all ends here Hopefully I will not have to crawl across this on race day! [Read More]
Back from Beantown
Wow what a weekend! When it comes to excitement, Boston does not disappoint. It was fun, stressful, hard, glorious, all of those things rolled into one. Where do I even start? I flew home late last night–there was a medical emergency onboard–a runnner no less–so we ended up landing a half hour early. That was [Read More]
Boston Update
I made it in to BOSTON yesterday!Frisked at the airport and I didn’t even pack my stick–WTH? Navigated the bus to the train to another train to the hotel in the rain all myself–WOOT! Got interviewed and was on the local TV news–too bad I missed it Other than 1 rude bus driver, I’m being [Read More]
Therapy Thursday
The nerves, butterflies, you name it are beginning to subside as I settle down and get my game face on. I had a winded, leaden (why should today be any different?) final run on the treadmill this morning so, as they say, the proverbial hay is in the barn, as much as I could jam [Read More]
Reminiscing
With you-know-what a mere days away, I’ve been thinking alot about the whole odyssey last year and thought I’d share some pics as well as Dick Beardsley’s course commentary and a few words of my own as my Boston experience played out. If you’ve got nothing but time on your hands, the entire 2009 Boston [Read More]
