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In honor of the 16th annual Virginia Creeper Marathon in quaint Abingdon, VA, I’m recapping my adventures running the race back in 2007 when I joined about 100 other marathoners to run in a drizzly off-and-on rain. I signed up for the $10 race (yes, only $10) after one of my clients hired me to […]
My friend Terri and I set a great plan into action for running the 2008 Georgia Marathon together. After scoping out the details, we decided to stay in the Omni Hotel so we could roll out of bed, take the elevator down to the lobby, walk out onto the plaza, and start the race! One […]
Selfishly, part of my little corner of the internet is just for me. Yes, I love to write about my my current running escapades with the Cruisers and MRTT friends, and about when I meet another blogger. I write about what’s going on in my community, what I’ve eaten, and what races I’m training for […]
Please welcome my Cruiser and Moms RUN This Town friend Amanda as she takes you on a tour of DC during the recent Rock ‘N’ Roll DC Half Marathon. Amanda is a busy working mom of two who joined the Cruisers over a year ago. She ran her first marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, last […]
Way back in 2002, the Inaugural Washington DC Marathon ran through history… but only briefly. I believe their hopes were to become the spring version of the Marine Corps Marathon, but that wasn’t to be. There was no race morning packet pick-up, so our friend Bob and I drove over to Stadium-Armory on Friday […]
The National Marathon was run from 2006 through 2010, before becoming the Rock ‘N’ Roll USA Marathon in 2011. The inaugural marathon had a qualifying time of 4:30 which meant a lot of people weren’t able to run it. Five and eight years after the fact, I’ve prepared a throwback recap for the 2006 and […]
I’ve decided to be one of the cool kids again this month and join in the fun with Amanda and Becka for their Runner’s Tell All Monthly link-up. If you remember, last month I wrote My Running Story In 250 Words as part of their link-up. This month their cue was to write about your […]
Perhaps some good has already come from the tragic death of one our local runners. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that the trails had been plowed of the nine inches of snow we got overnight from Sunday to mid-day Monday. Not all of our running trails have been plowed, but the ones that […]
I love snow more than most people I know. I don’t dream about being at the beach during the winter. In fact, if I were out of town in a warm location and heard that we got hit back home with a really big snow storm I’d be pretty bummed! Our overnight dumping of nine […]
Earlier this year, I was contacted by Fitletic and asked if I would like to review one of their running belts. After a quick trip to their website and a few conversations with their marketing director, we decided the Ultimate II Running Belt with the 8-Ounce Hydration Add-on would best fit my needs. My goal […]
The running community is absolutely amazing, but I already knew that! This morning I ran with two other MRTT ladies for the very first time. Many from our group were either running in the Rock ‘N’ Roll USA Half Marathon or the Lucky Leprechaun 5K, so that left only three of us to brave […]
Yesterday was another very sad day for our running community. A local mom was hit by a car and killed while out on her morning run. She was doing something many of us have done every morning for years… We get up super early to get our run in before showering, waking the children, getting […]
I think most runners will agree that being over-dressed for a run is pretty miserable, and new runners often ask me how to dress for the many different temperatures we have in Virginia. The Cruisers have always said that they look at how I’m dressed when I step out of the car for our […]
Yesterday I started my last morning visiting my mom with a 12-mile extra-hilly run. My run was far better than my previous one, but those hills put a hurting on me. My total time was 2:00:54 (10:04 pace), and my quads are still complaining! I ran past the trash and recycling center and since they […]
Mom and I had some errands to run in town yesterday so I got up early for my run. Not so early that I was afraid of running into a coyote or bear coming in from an early morning of foraging for food, but early enough to see most of the sun rise. As I’ve mentioned […]
As you know, I’m visiting my mom this week and that means that my running routes are far different than those that I see at home. Settle back and let me take you on a run along the very same roads that a very young Deb used to run… Wearing my Asics Gel Scouts, I […]
Yesterday, I was cleaning about 8.5 inches of snow off of my car and postponing my trip to visit my mom. Today, VDOT had my back, and it was clear sailing all of the way across the great Commonwealth of Virginia! Stay tuned for some muddy country road runs in the next few days… Questions: […]
This morning Bill, several Cruisers, and I ran the Reston 10 Miler. It’s a part of the =PR= Race Series that I’ve told you about before, and this particular race benefited the South Lakes High School Track & Field team. Back when I last ran this race in 1998 and 2001, Potomac River Running Stores […]
Tomorrow I’m running the Reston 10 Miler again for the first time in several years. This prompted me to dig deep to remember stories from the previous years I’ve run it. The first thing I learned is that I’ve only run the race twice before, but I would have guessed that I’d run it several […]
