I taught my first boot camp yesterday morning! In fact, it was the first boot camp I’d ever experienced in any way, shape, or form. About a month ago I had a great idea… Why not offer a weekly boot camp for our MRTT members. I would make it interactive and we would all take […]
Welcome to Wednesday Word, a weekly linkup for everyone, not just health and fitness bloggers. Each Wednesday you will have a single word prompt to write about. Let your imagination run free and share with your readers your interpretation of that word, or simply use it as inspiration for your post. Today’s word is independent…… […]
Disclosure: The Moji Foot Massager was supplied free of charge for me to try; however, all opinions in this review are my own. A couple of years ago I tested and wrote a review of the Moji 360 Massager, so recently when I was given the opportunity to test their new Moji Foot Massager, […]
Today let’s talk about just what you should do once you walk out the door for that very first run. You might think, “Well that’s simple, I’ll run.” But first you have to decide how long, how far, and where you’ll run? Unless you’re twelve years old and your body won’t even notice such […]
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 woke up to rain and a flash flood warning yesterday morning, but with no storms on the immediate horizon I met my MRTT friends for an eight-mile run. Personally I think running in the summer rain is delightful, so there really weren’t any complaints coming from me. Now that I have my GoPro and […]
Today I’m linking up with Marcia at Marcia’s Healthy Slice for her monthly Runfessions linkup. Be sure to check out her blog and those of the other great bloggers linking up. Runfession – a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a particular running crime. I’m adding a fun little twist again […]
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 […]
Welcome to Wednesday Word, a weekly linkup for everyone, not just health and fitness bloggers. Each Wednesday you will have a single word prompt to write about. Let your imagination run free and share with your readers your interpretation of that word, or simply use it as inspiration for your post. Today’s word is annoying…… […]
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 […]
It’s time for Friday Five linkup with DC area bloggers Courtney at Eat Pray Run DC, Cynthia at You Signed Up for What?!, and Mar at Mar on the Run! Be sure to stop by their blogs and say hello! While you’re there, be sure to check out other bloggers who are participating in the linkup, too. This week the DC […]
A few weeks ago, I hosted a little workshop for my MRTT friends to help them set up their training plans for their fall marathons. We started out with an empty worksheet and by the time my friends left my house, they had filled in the blanks for their next 20-26 weeks of training. […]
Welcome to Wednesday Word, a weekly linkup for everyone, not just health and fitness bloggers. Each Wednesday you will have a single word prompt to write about. Let your imagination run free and share with your readers your interpretation of that word, or simply use it as inspiration for your post. Today’s word is fortitude…… […]
Hill repeats can be grueling, but make a huge difference in your ability to run well at both road races and on trails. My MRTT friends and I recently ran the ZOOMA Half Marathon in Annapolis before we added hill repeats to our summer training schedule and we paid for it dearly. Last summer we […]
Last summer my friend Mary told me that she swore by eating homemade sweet potato fries the night before a race. I decided to give sweet potatoes a try, and was pleased to discover that my stomach did well with them. For the rest of the summer I made sweet potato wedges before each race […]
For the third straight year, Bill and I hosted the Miles’ Pancake Run. For the third straight year we didn’t serve pancakes. The annual Miles’ Blueberry Pancake Run started about twelve years ago in Maryland when Miles and his wife Jeani hosted a pancake brunch after one of Miles and his friends’ Saturday long runs. […]
It’s time for Friday Five linkup with DC area bloggers Courtney at Eat Pray Run DC, Cynthia at You Signed Up for What?!, and Mar at Mar on the Run! Be sure to stop by their blogs and say hello! While you’re there, be sure to check out other bloggers who are participating in the linkup, too. This week the DC […]
I am a very friendly person and unless I’m in deep conversation with my running friends, I’ll say hello to anyone I see coming toward me on the running trail. Usually it’s, “Good morning” – even in the afternoon. I’m a creature of habit, and since 99% of my runs are first thing in the […]
