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 […]
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 motivation…… […]
Just like rest days, conversation pace runs might seem insignificant as a major contributor to our training, but actually serve a huge and important purpose during marathon training. A conversation pace run is any run done while being able to easily hold a conversation with another runner – it’s as simple as that. It’s […]
I’m lucky that Bill loves a good entrée salad as much as I do, and one of our favorites is Mandarin Orange and Almond Chicken Salad. I’ve been making it since we were first married so it’s definitely a tried-and-true recipe. My college roommate first shared the dressing recipe with me, however, I’ve altered it […]
=PR= Race Series held their forth and final spring 2015 trail run this morning at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston. It’s been a fun series that I’ve planned other events around so I wouldn’t miss any of the runs; and its timing couldn’t have been better as my MRTT team trains for Ragnar Appalachians in […]
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, in honor […]
Several weeks ago I invited my Cruiser and MRTT friends to a huge group run to celebrate National Running Day. On Monday, my friend Kelley posted the following on our MRTT group: Hold The Phone…. Debbie has agreed to show up in a SPARKLE SKIRT to Wednesday’s National Running Day Event…IF…50 of you ladies […]
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 perseverance…… […]
The long run has always been my favorite – the longer the better. Some of my fondest memories are of 22 and 24-mile point-to-point training runs with the Cruisers. We’d finish the run exhausted, elated, and ready for a well deserved afternoon nap. Long runs can be considered the foundation of marathon training. […]
