This week’s Tuesday’s on the Run topic is Running at Night. Personally I don’t have a whole lot of experience running in the dark other than a Ragnar Relay, a 10k and a handful of times when I went out deep in the wee hours of the morning because I had mega miles to get [Read More]
To Tri or Not to Tri?
Here’s a look at my no pressure, cut-back, “off-season” training: Miles Run: 17 Miles on bike: 12 Monday: Run 4 miles Tuesday: Strength + Yoga Wednesday: rest Thursday: 5 miles Friday: Strength Training (I’m still sore) Saturday: Bike 12 miles Sunday: Run 8 miles (hilly) Mother Nature has been outdoing herself here lately. We’ve had [Read More]
Tahini Mania and More Loves
Happy Friday party people! It’s time to link up with Courtney, Cynthia and Mar for the Friday Five. Today we’re talking about favorites, which is easy because I’ve got lots of those lately. Let’s get started: Feeling better. I’ve whined here for literally years about fatigue, weight gain, running paces being off the cliff slow [Read More]
Things to Do in the Running “Off Season”
Although I still have a few races left on the calendar this year, my running “off-season” started the minute I crossed the finish line in Twin Cities. Since then I’ve been running less, enjoying more. Not that running isn’t enjoyable or anything, it’s the marathon training that tends to wear on me after awhile. Studies [Read More]
Who Inspires You?
This week’s Tuesday’s on the Run topic is Inspiring Others to Run. This may sound selfish but, um…inspiring others was never my goal. I started running 17+ years ago as a way to head off the heart disease that runs in my family. I started this blog back in January of 2009 as a training [Read More]
Run10Feed10 Race Report
On Saturday I ran the Women’s Health Run10Feed10 10k in Chicago. For every person that runs this 10k, 10 hungry people in the community are fed. Great cause, yes? I thought so and was honored to be an Ambassador for this race. Goals for the race? Racing soon after a marathon is tricky. I knew [Read More]
October Currently and Kindness Update
I’m in that post-marathon place. Many get the blues at this point, but I feel more a sense of relief. Now I can run what I want as fast or slow as I want…or do something else entirely (like laundry). I have a few races left this year but I’m not letting those pressure me. [Read More]
The Kindness Project
I almost got arrested yesterday. I was taking Thing 1 to skating and we were approaching the ice rink (all I had to do was make a left turn into the parking lot. Except there was an accident just North of where I needed to turn in and if I’d gotten there 10 seconds earlier [Read More]
Balance? What Balance?
Today’s Tuesdays on the Run topic is running/racing/life/work balance. Do you ever get to a point in your race schedule and wonder what the heck you were thinking? Yeah I’m kind of there. I seem to have overloaded October with races (a 5k, two 10k, two halfs), ALL after running a marathon. Is this a [Read More]
Chicago Marathon Spectator Report
The train into the city at the crack of dawn was jammed with marathon spectators. Gaggles of enthusiastic people, some clad in matching t-shirts, all carrying signs, cowbells, you name it. We descended on the city in droves to cheer on our beloved marathoners. I made a list of mine and there were many. Name, [Read More]
