Thanksgiving 2014 is history and I survived. No oven fires or slips of the carving knife to be had. Chalk it up to turkey trot endorphins, but I think I handled the in-laws and the weeks of food-prep pretty well. I don’t think I’ve ever been as exhausted as I was on Black Friday, but [Read More]
Sweet Sixteen
This past weekend the Caveman and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary. I know where has the time gone? It goes faster and faster, I swear. He treated to me to a 90 minute massage featuring reflexology (that’s a fancy way of saying awesome foot massage in case you were wondering). What runner does not [Read More]
Tips for Handling Holiday Drama
For the first time in….well…forever…..my mother-in-law is not cooking Thanksgiving dinner. Typically we rotate between us hosting my family one year, and going to NC where the in-laws host, every other year. If you’re an old-timer around here you may remember the year BIL and his family refused to travel to NC due to very [Read More]
It’s Race Week
First things first: Week 15 of NYCM training went like this: Total Miles: 21 Monday: Yoga Tuesday: 4 miles Wednesday: Strength/core Thursday: 6 miles with 1.5 and 1 mile tempo intervals Friday: 4 miles and strength for legs Saturday: Rest Sunday: 7 miles hilly So yeah, it’s race week and I’m feeling remarkably calm. I [Read More]
Currently
Books: None as usual. But I do have a new mag. subscription (surprise) that was too good to pass up. I hadn’t read Oxygen in eons but it’s back and better than before. Even though I have less than zero interest in ever becoming a figure competitor, there’s a ton on clean eating and great [Read More]
NYCM Training and Racing
NYCM training week 11 is complete. Here’s how it went: Total miles: 38 Monday: Hot vinyasa flow yoga Tuesday: 4 miles Wednesday: 7 miles (10x800m) Thursday: 6.14 trail miles Friday: Rest Saturday: 18.15. It warmed up and this sucked after about 14 but it’s done. Sunday: 3.1 5k with kiddos This was a solid week [Read More]
Friday Five
1. Content Scraping. A few weeks ago I started getting pingbacks on every blog post I wrote. When I’d go to the site, I could see nothing. Finally I saw that they were stealing all of my content verbatim, and changing the byline. Thankfully a quick email to the offending website’s host provider put a [Read More]
Loving/Not Loving
Loving: That I live in an area filled with wildlife. Not Loving: In the past week I’ve had snakes in my garage, wasps in the eaves and not one but two frogs leap and hit me when I’m out running. I mean seriously, what’s next? Wait, don’t answer that. Loving: I finally got a new dishwasher. Not [Read More]
Three Things Thursday + One
1. Back to School. The kids went back yesterday, and, as much as I hate to see summer break come to an end, it needed to be done I guess. The bickering was starting. And too much computer time. 2. Marathon Training. I’m in week 6 of New York City Marathon training. My flight and [Read More]
NYCM Training Week 4
Four weeks of training are in the barn for New York. Here’s how week 4 shook out: Miles Run: 24 Miles Bike: 20 Monday: Rest Tuesday: 8x400m. Strength for legs Wednesday: Bike 20 miles, Upper body strength Thursday: Rest Friday: 6 miles Saturday: Swim Sunday: 12 miles, yoga This was a cutback week with only [Read More]
