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I hadn’t planned on running a winter race this year until I won an entry into the Run Your Heart Out 5K back in January when I posted a picture of me running in the snow to Instagram and tagged @PotomacRiverRunning. My picture won, and on Sunday I found myself toeing the starting line with the air temperature at a […]
Peer pressure may usually have a negative connotation, but in this case it was a good thing and worked out in my favor. Erin couldn’t stand the thought of missing out on all of the fun, so she signed up for the Run With Santa 5K at the last minute! She even picked up my […]
On Thanksgiving morning I joined my Cruiser and MRTT friends for the 22nd annual Ashburn Farm Thanksgiving Day 5K. It’s become a fun tradition that I couldn’t imagine skipping. This fun race has 10K, 5K, and 2K distances so there’s a fit for everyone! Packet pick-up was super easy, and even though I couldn’t get there until […]
When my friend Lesley asked if I’d be interested in helping promote her Ghost, Goblins & Ghouls Spooktacular 5K on my social media in exchange for a few free race entries, I jumped at the chance. I love helping friends, and I thought that it would be fun to give away race entries on my […]
For those of you just stopping in to read about my MRTT chapter’s Moms RUN This Ragnar experience at Ragnar DC, you can catch up by clicking on Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 to check out my three previous recaps. I left off yesterday as we were finishing our breakfast at Dunkin’ Donuts […]
If you’re just now joining my Ragnar DC party, you can catch up by clicking on Part 1 and Part 2, to read my two previous recaps. I left off with Van 2 heading to The Creamery at Exchange 18 in hopes of getting some sleep while we waited for Van 1 to run their […]
Picking up where I left off yesterday in my Ragnar DC recap, today’s post will be all about Moms RUN This Ragnar Van 2’s first set of legs. If you remember Van 1’s Misty had just handed the slap bracelet off to Kim, and Van 2 took off in hot pursuit. Van 2’s first […]
Last year’s experience running Ragnar DC with my Cruiser friends was something like I’d never experienced before and I knew that I had to return! And return I have – twice. In June, I joined my MRTT team for Ragnar Trail Appalachians WV, and just last week I joined Moms RUN This Ragnar (again, my […]
Exhausted, sleep-deprived, cold, and wet; yet delirious with joy, my amazing MRTT team ran 200.5 miles from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington, DC in just over 35 hours completing the 2015 Ragnar DC… And it’s weekends like this, that memories are made from! Later this week I hope to start recapping our Ragnar DC adventure. […]
It’s not every day one has an opportunity to run on an airport runway, and when I heard about this race a couple of years ago, I desperately wanted to participate. Problem was, I was either out of town for another race or a football game when the race was being held. This year the […]
One of my longtime dreams came true on Sunday when I ran the Parks Half Marathon with my youngest son Daniel. Two years ago Bill and I ran the Virginia Wine Country Half Marathon with our oldest son Joseph and his girlfriend Julie – now wife. Life is certainly good when you get to share […]
Last year my friend Katie and BAMR Bands founder/owner came up with the great idea to organize a kids’ fun run for the children of our MRTT chapter members. She and our chapter co-leader Erin got the ball rolling in July, and with a lot of hard work from a great group of volunteers, today’s […]
Sunday’s Leesburg 20K was yet another fun filled morning spent with my MRTT and Cruiser running buddies! Believe me, I sometimes pinch myself to see if I’m dreaming because I have so many good friends who share my running passion, and each race morning seems like a party to me. Proceeds from the race benefited […]
A race on a Wednesday? Of course! Every day is Saturday at the beach! Last summer without realizing there was a 5K every Wednesday in Corolla, we came down to our beach house for a quick stay in August from Wednesday to Wednesday, and weren’t able to run in the race. I decided to plan […]
For the third year in a row, I started my Independence Day off with a BANG by running in the =PR= Race Series Firecracker 5K put on by Potomac River Running. PRR always does things right, and today’s race was no exception! Their website says it best when explaining why runners should participate in the […]
If you’re just now joining my Ragnar Trail Appalachians WV party, you can catch up by clicking on Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 to read my three previous recaps, and you can meet my teammates by clicking here. I left off on my previous recap as I was falling asleep for what ended […]
I’m taking a break today from finishing my Ragnar Trail Appalachians WV recaps to introduce you to my amazing teammates! If you’ve missed my recaps, you can catch up by clicking on these three links: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. As I’ve mentioned before, I had so much fun on my Cruisers‘ Ragnar […]
If you’re joining my Ragnar Trail Appalachians WV party late, you can catch up by clicking on Part 1 and Part 2 to read my two previous recaps. I left off on my previous recap while waiting to run my first nighttime run of the relay. I had expected to run my second leg around […]
Yesterday I left off my Ragnar Trail Appalachians WV recap just as our team captain and first runner Gayle came running into the exchange chute ready to hand off our team bib to me for my first leg. Due to the extremely muddy conditions, Ragnar had moved everyone’s start times up one hour. With the […]
There are bucket list items to check off; and then there are bucket list items to check off. On Friday and Saturday I checked off the latter… Running a Ragnar Relay was on my “to do” list for years, but it wasn’t until this past fall that I checked that item off my list when […]
