I am by far, no domestic goddess but I have a secret: I enjoy doing laundry. Especially washing workout clothes. Lots of sweaty workout stuff means I had a productive week. The Caveman generates an auspicious pile of dirty workout stuff as well. Add in the fact that both girls (Things 1 and 2) are [Read More]
Race Report: CureSade 5k
Since it was a recovery week and all, what better time to sneak in a little racing action? I found a trail race pretty close to home. Images of russet leaves lit by golden sunlight danced in my head. Alas, race day dawned grey and blustery. And cold. And is that snow in the air? [Read More]
Day in the Life of 21-Day Reset
The 21-day Reset is over but I’m still hanging on to some of the new practices that I hope will become lifestyle changes. The hardest part of this for me, once I got over the initial sugar cravings, was taking in enough good food. I was almost always hungry. Granted taking on this challenge during [Read More]
Footcare for Runners & Giveaway
With many fall races on the horizon, there’s a whole lotta tired, beat up feet out there. I swear all I can think about post-run some days (besides food) is a good foot rub….sadly nobody around here ever volunteers…what’s up with that? Oh well there are other things to keep tired runner’s feet happy: Socks: [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]
Runfessions
Yep, it’s that time again. Time to cleanse my sweaty runner’s soul and runfess. Join me, won’t you? Runfessors love company. Let’s get started: I’m this close to ditching the 21-day reset. I know, I know it would be like stopping and hopping in a taxi at mile 25.5 of a marathon. You just don’t [Read More]
September Stuff I Love
Skoop A Game: This is basically a bag packed with super power. A stands for Awesome in my opinion. Each 50-calorie scoop of Skoop contains super veggies, green grasses, superfruits, omega 3’s, probiotics, adaptogens and antioxidants. Being in the thick of marathon training, I’ll take all the nutrients I can get. I mix Skoop A [Read More]
NYCM Training and Week 2 Reset
Cutback week is complete! Here’s how it went: Monday: Hot vinyasa flow yoga Tuesday: Run 4 miles, upper body strength/core Wednesday: 7 miles, 4@tempo pace. Ouch. Thursday: Bike 20 miles. Lower body strength/core Friday: Run 3 miles. Saturday: Rest Sunday: 12 miles Overall a solid, uneventful week. The low mileage felt odd but good. Week [Read More]
Are you a “Cheetah” ?
In case you didn’t know, a new season of Dancing with the Stars started and I’m all over it as usual. I was most excited to see Olympic Hurdler and Bobsledder Lolo Jones. In case you missed it, Lolo’s first dance was kind of a mess, but who cares? Well apparently she did, as she [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]
