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To celebrate this last day of 2013, I’ve put together the year in pictures… Unfortunately, I’m not starting off very well since didn’t start blogging until January 31st, and until then didn’t feel the need to photograph every moment of my life. Believe it or not, I have no running pictures from January! On this […]
Back in early October, I made a promise to write several posts giving you a variety of running tips you could use for your upcoming marathons. I wrote the following “Race Preparation” articles: The Week Leading Up To Your Race, The Last Two Days Before The Race, Race Items Check List, and Race Recovery. Unfortunately, […]
Last week I talked about The Week Leading Up To Your Race and The Last Two Days Before Your Race, so I thought that today I would talk about Race Recovery. As soon as you finish your race, grab a water bottle and keep walking around to let your legs cool down. If it’s a […]
Back in April I wrote What’s All That Stuff You’re Carrying? Since fall is racing season, and I’m spending the week talking about race preparation, I’m re-posting it today with a few minor changes and additions. I’m sure you never leave your house without your phone, but I’ll remind you anyway to take it (and […]
Yesterday I talked about The Week Leading Up To Your Race, and promised that today I’d get into the topics of carbo-loading, dressing for the race, and the importance of sleep before the race. Let’s start with carbo-loading and whether it’s a myth, or if there’s truth behind the science of it. Carbohydrates (such as […]
With so many people running a fall marathon or half marathon, I promised to talk about preparing for that big race that you’ve been training for all summer. Let’s say you’ve done everything right so far. You’ve completed every training run exactly as your schedule says, you’ve eaten well, stayed hydrated, gotten plenty of sleep […]
Bill and I are in town for the Hokie Half Marathon and staying at The Inn at Virginia Tech (front view)… The Inn at Virginia Tech (back view)… Right after we cruised into town, we picked Julie up and took her to her favorite restaurant in Christiansburg (right next to Blacksburg)… There’s a whole lot […]
Back in April I heard about the DIVAS Half Marathon & 5K Series coming to Virginia and I was pumped! I immediately sent out a note to the Cruiser chicks to see who wanted to run the race with me. I even envisioned us wearing matching tutus! The very next night, Julie called to tell […]
I got this idea from Dorothy over at Mile Posts and I thought it would be a fun post! She posted an old “NOTE” from her Facebook from several years ago called “25 Random Things, Facts, Habits & Goals about Me.” I remembered that I had been tagged in a NOTE about running that I […]
I’m going to be pretty busy tomorrow prepping for the Cruisers’ W&OD Trail 45-Mile Ultramarathon Training Run and attending a fun social function (no, it’s not a run), so I might not talk write to you again until Sunday evening. I hope to be able to post tomorrow, but if I don’t, I promise to […]
Remember my post It’s A Runner Thing on Wednesday? Well, it got a little long and I didn’t get to post all of the crazy, strange, and funny things we runners are known to do, so I decided to finish it up today focusing on what we do at races! How many times have you […]
We’re a quirky bunch, we runners… We do odd little things and don’t think twice about it, yet our non-running friends think we’re nuts. When I tell my friends something about a one of my runs and they don’t understand, I say, “Never mind, it’s a runner thing.” So buckle your seat belts, sit back, […]
It all started when my hubby sent me a link to the following Poop Flow Chart that he saw on iRunFar’s Facebook page. Those who know me well, know that this is my kind of humor! I decided that since this flow chart dealt with hikers, and not runners, I needed to make an addendum… […]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how much fun we had at The Pancake Run That Wasn’t. I also promised to tell you a little bit more about how Mr. Incredible came to be. As with many of my running stories, this story starts with, “Miles had an idea…” I talked to Mr. […]
Usually I’m in and out of a race expo pretty quickly, but not today! I went to the 2013 Virginia Wine Country Half Marathon Expo two times and stayed a total of almost three hours. This morning I picked up Bill’s, Joseph’s, and my race packets right after the expo opened. While there I visited […]
I’m getting quite a kick out of looking at my “Marathon Check List” that I used to hand out to my running group just a few years ago. The first thing that I noticed was “single use camera.” Do they even make those anymore? So right off the top, I’ll remind you to take your […]
In the past I’ve looked at race medal displays at race expos and have always concluded that they either cost more than I wanted to spend, or they didn’t have enough room to hold all of our finishers’ medals… For years we had our medals displayed side-by-side on a shelf in our library. My […]
This morning two of my Cruiser friends and I ran in the TKO Melanoma 5K. This race was in memory of Theresa Kay O’Conner, a loving wife and mom who lost her battle with melanoma last fall. This race was very near and dear to me as a melanoma survivor, and also because I lost […]
Yesterday I published Beth’s Paris Marathon Recap, Part 1. We left off with Beth in the early miles of her marathon. Here is part 2, in her words… At about the 9 km mark, I was happy to spot a familiar tee shirt “Montgomery County Parks ½ Marathon” being sported by a fellow DC native! […]
My Cruiser friend, Beth, ran in the Paris Marathon on April 7. I told her that I would love to publish her race review on my blog, if she would write it up and send me photos to go along with it. Here is the review, written by Beth and her husband Tom… Finally! After […]
