Time for the April edition of Loving/Not Loving. Feel free to play along. Loving that Easter Sunday here was a glorious 79 degrees. Not loving that our flip flop weather was fleeting and it’s back to a whole 34 degrees this morning. Loving that I’m still in a Get-Stuff-Done mindset. Not loving that I finally [Read More]
Weekend Rewind
Here’s how training went last week: When I strayed from the plan, what I actually did is shown in blue. Total Mileage: 30 run, 20 bike Monday: Yoga Tuesday: 3 miles easy trail run, upper body strength Wednesday: 6 miles pace ladder Thursday: 8 miles w/2×1.5 miles @tempo pace Friday: Rest Saturday: Running drills 5k race [Read More]
Eggshell Shuffle Race Report
On Saturday morning, we ran the Eggshell Shuffle. This year Thing 1 agreed to run and recruited a friend to join her as well. The weather was pretty much perfection minus a little wind. Like I mentioned in my last post, I took the Yoplait Greek 100 Taste-Off to the race for more taste testing. Runners [Read More]
Yoplait Greek 100 Taste-Off
If you’ve hung out with me here for any length of time, you know I love me some yogurt. I love the creamy fruitiness before and after workouts, as a snack, dipping apples in it, making parfaits with berries, nuts, granola, even cooking and baking with it, you get the picture. When I was invited [Read More]
Apera Bag Review and Giveaway
It’s been a tough winter. While I survived, barely, I’m sorry to say my gym bag bit the dust. It was too worn out to go on. The salt stains were the last straw. Truth is I never really loved it anyway. It wasn’t big enough (twss). Especially if I wanted to workout AND swim [Read More]
Currently
Mid April means it’s time for another edition of Currently. Let’s go. Reading: Just wading through too many mags lately while I sit at track meets, the ice rink, pick up lines all that good stuff. Running Path: I’ve returned to the trails for my short, easy runs. Although it really hasn’t greened up [Read More]
Getting Stuff Done
I’m linking up with Amanda’s Best Foot initiative and sharing a peek at my workouts last week: Where I strayed from the plan, stuff in blue is what I actually did. Total miles: 20. Monday: Rest Tuesday: 6x400m. 4x400m. Oh these were hard on my race-weary legs. Wednesday: Pace ladder; strength training. Ragged fartleks; strength [Read More]
Running Regrets
My friend Harry headed off to London the other day to take on the London Marathon. While I am thrilled for everyone running it, I sort of kick myself in the pants every year when London Marathon weekend comes up. You see I lived there for a couple of years, shortly after we were married, [Read More]
3TT: #LetLoose2014
Vote: Yesterday I learned that this blog had been nominated for the 50 top Health and Fitness Blogs of 2014. It’s an honor to be among such a great group of friends. Thanks so much to those of you who already voted. If you’d like to vote, please do so here. You can vote daily, [Read More]
Birds of a Feather
When we were returning from Houston a couple of weeks ago, there were two women sitting in the row in front of us on the plane. I noticed them when one of them opened up an eye-shadow palette the size of a pizza box and began applying some to her friend. Odd, yes? Why would [Read More]
