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Yesterday morning I raced in a local 5K (recap to be posted Tuesday), drove home long enough to shower, and then hopped back into my packed SUV and headed to Southwest Virginia to visit my mom for the week. We have big plans to do a few fall gardening chores, go Christmas shopping, and perhaps, even […]
I sit here today scrolling through social media as my running friends finish the 41st Marine Corps Marathon and I can’t help but be a little nostalgic for days gone by… I ran the MCM ten times and it holds the honor of being my very first marathon. Yesterday, I shared my ten favorite memories from […]
After a crazy two weeks of travel, I spent the weekend up to my eyeballs in laundry, wedding fun, and finally spending a relaxing Sunday afternoon with my husband and our visiting-sons while watching football and DVD’s from when our sons were little. It was perfect! So perfect, that I made the decision to let […]
On Tuesday morning I flew to Chicago for the Club Industry Show being held at the Hyatt Regency. For convenience, I stayed in the Hyatt which also had the dual benefit of being an easy walk to my son and daughter-in-law’s building. After school each day – my son is a second year MBA student at […]
As I transferred my workouts from my log to my infographic for this past week, I paused to look closely and decided to take a moment to talk a little about how I fit so much activity into my days. My goal is always to inspire and show that I am very active and hope to be […]
You might have seen this earlier this week on my Personal Fit Fitness Facebook, but if you didn’t, it’s a fun look at what a Ragnar Relay is really like. A special shout out and thanks goes to my husband Bill for all of the hard work he did pulling this video together and to my […]
Top on my list this past week was recovering and getting my Ragnar DC recaps out in a timely basis. It wasn’t that pushing hard while running a total of 20.44 miles in 24 hours did me in, it was the lack of sleep. I’m not one to require a lot of sleep, but 1 hour 20 minutes wasn’t […]
Ragnar… Running all hours of the day and night Awesome time with old friends and new Group photos No sleep Amazing experience Realizing you’re exhausted, but having the time of your life This past weekend, I ran my fifth Ragnar Relay with Ragnar newbies and Ragnar pros. Once again, it was an amazing experience watching my […]
With only five more days until I hop in a van with my son Daniel, his girlfriend Jess, and and three other friends for Ragnar DC, I plan to cut back a little bit on my training this week. We are running to have fun with no grandiose illusions of being competitive so I really don’t have […]
Just on a whim I texted Meagan on Thursday night to see if she was available to give me that tour of the trails at Pandapas Pond that she’s been telling me about for the last couple of years. I was in luck and she said that she could meet Bill and me anytime Friday afternoon. We […]
The thing I love most about running is the freedom it affords – the chance to drop all of my cares and enjoy being outside with nature. Last week that freedom was interrupted when there were two attempted attacks on women on the W&OD Trail. On Wednesday, a women walking on the W&OD Trail was attacked by two men who came […]
Not sure if I had the post-vacation blues or still wasn’t feeling well, I muddled back into my routine on Wednesday morning after spending Tuesday cleaning the beach house and then driving home from the Outer Banks. I quickly discovered that routine was exactly what I needed and now that my summer cold has moved on, I’m finally […]
Since Bill and I had both caught an uninvited late summer virus, we decided to postpone heading to the beach until this past Tuesday. I felt pretty good on Monday, and as you can tell from my chart below, I ran, lifted, and did yoga. Since I wouldn’t be above sea level for the next week or […]
We’ve all heard the old adage, “If your cold is above the neck it’s okay to continue running and working out, but if it’s below the neck you should take some time off.” I decided to check in with WebMD and see if this bit of advice is still true today and found that indeed it […]
May we please have a moment of silence for my dying Fitbit Charge (affiliate link)? It was June of last year that I purchased my Fitbit to track my sleep. I knew that my five hours of sleep per night was no longer cracking it, but without tracking my night-to-night sleep habits I wondered if it really was […]
Today marked an end of a very special era – an era that started with my original BRF back in 1997… In 1997 I trained for my very first marathon and ultra alone, and occasionally while out on my training runs I’d pass three runners who I knew from my neighborhood. Had I asked to join them, they would […]
Every summer my mom’s side of the family gathers in Virginia for a two-day reunion. After a Friday evening dinner, my uncle and aunt generously allow us to gather on their property along the river for a fun-filled Saturday picnic. This year I was struck by how active the younger children were. They had kayaks and other water toys for […]
On any given Saturday or Sunday, the W&OD Trail is chock full of runners and bikers – some weekend warriors, some daily users, all with the same common goal of trying to stay healthy; and almost all middle aged or younger. On several occasions this spring and summer my mid-week runs have found me on the trail […]
Starting this week, I’m changing up my weekly recap. Some weeks my recap might be a combination of GoPro (affiliate link) pictures telling the story of the week, some weeks it might be a paragraph talking about something that impacted my workout, and some weeks I might include something funny or embarrassing that happened to me. I’ll also share […]
This week was full of ups and downs, both figuratively and literally. The ups and downs on Saturday were rather fun though! Monday Strength Train – 1 hour Walk – 3.4 miles Rodney Yee’s Yoga Conditioning For Athletes (affiliate link) – Yoga for Runners On Monday morning a got a text from Erin asking if I had time to go […]
