Before I can look forward to 2010 I guess I’d better look back to see what I did right and wrong in 2009. Reflection time! I started the year with the March Madness 1/2 for the third consecutive year. I managed to control my pacing this time and came away with a course PR.Then the injury demon [Read More]
Snowy Sunday Trivia
I hope all of you who were hammered by snow this weekend are safely digging out! We got only a few inches…made for a festive but slippery 6-miler yesterday and a beautiful 10 this morning. Look Who I’ll be Chasing in Boston! Meb Keflezighi and Ryan Hall have both signed on to run The Boston [Read More]
Time Flies
As if on cue, the battery in the Polar Watch Modern Caveman got me last year for my birthday has died…could it really be that time again? Already? And wasn’t it just a couple of years ago I was turning 30? Can I possibly be having yet another birthday? So soon? Time flies. Too fast. [Read More]
Time Flies
As if on cue, the battery in the Polar Watch Modern Caveman got me last year for my birthday has died…could it really be that time again? Already? And wasn’t it just a couple of years ago I was turning 30? Can I possibly be having yet another birthday? So soon? Time flies. Too fast. [Read More]
Hot Yoga Top Revealed
Ok, ok you twisted my arm…here’s the hot yoga top I am so fond of, in all it’s glory. If you told me a year ago I’d be putting pics of myself in yoga tops on the internet I’d have thought you were batty. But clearly it is I who has the batty market cornered. [Read More]
Weekend Downs and Ups
100 Pushup Challenge: After hemming and hawing for 4 days after completing Week 6, column 3, I finally got up the nerve to try for the whole 100. Well I didn’t get past 77. Can’t say I’m surprised as my incremental improvement has been slow going (my baseline max was 57 so only 20 more [Read More]
Foggy Memories
I pulled out the old Fuel Belt for today’s 12 miler, only the second time since the marathon that I’ve ventured beyond 10. As I opened the zipper, Qu’est-ce que c’est? It was kind of like changing purses and finding left-behind artifacts from a bygone time: 3 Clif gels: 2 mochas and a vanilla They were [Read More]
Whole Foods Diet: The Rematch
This is day 5 of my revisited sugar-free/whole foods diet initiative. It would be sooooo easy to just give it up until the new year….but I will keep fighting to get this train back on track. Some of you have asked me for more details on this so-called diet so here goes: Where can I [Read More]
Coldest: What Do I Wear Now?
With our recent cold snap I’m needing to post this sooner than I thought!I already showed you what I wear when it’s colder, ie: 20’s.Here’s what I run in when it’s COLDEST ie: in the teens or below.Not even I get out for long in sub zero temps. Base layer, like before, except I go [Read More]
Weekend Recap
The GoodWe found a new babysitter the kids love! Maybe now we’ll get out more than once a decade…then again maybe not.I took Thing 2 to a birthday party at the Build-A-Bear Workshop, Fifteen 4 year olds + assorted bears in various stages of creation = cuteness overload.Modern Caveman took Thing 1 ice skating. Apparently what [Read More]
