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! This week, the DC Trifecta chose All About Love as the Friday Five theme. Since I think about running most […]
Our annual Italian Dinner Party each February is my weekend to shine and make my husband both happy and proud – happy that he’s getting a good home cooked meal; and proud that I try my hardest to replicate two of his favorite childhood dishes that his Italian grandma made for him. I suppose I’m a […]
By now everyone is well aware that I became injured in early December and wasn’t really able to run again until last week. If suddenly I’m posting cyclies instead of runfies on Instagram, something must be up, right? I mean – I’m Deb Runs, not Deb Spins! I took the last half of December off […]
My husband Bill started running my longer training runs with me to keep me company and before he knew it, he was up to 16 miles. One day I saw a new marathon in our area and decided to sign up for it. He was at work when I called to see if he wanted […]
It’s weird that I get so excited about the Super Bowl since the Redskins haven’t been close to playing in it in a couple of decades. I have no skin in the game this year, but I’ll be cheering for Kam Chancellor and Nick Sorensen (both Hokies) to have a good game, so by default, I’m […]
Today’s run was one of those runs. One of those runs I’ll remember forever….. I’ll remember it because it was so sweet. So sweet because I hadn’t really gone for a run in about five weeks. There’s a saying that goes: distance makes the heart grow fonder; as a runner, I say: “Injury makes the comeback […]
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! This week, the DC Trifecta chose Things About Me to be this week’s Friday Five theme. My regular readers […]
Bill and I have been trying to do more trail runs in the last year, and we have received a lot of inspiration from local running groups and friends posting on Instagram. There are some good trails and even mountains a relatively short drive away. After seeing some photos of a local group running Maryland […]
Sometimes I pull the trigger on my Friday Five post late on Thursday evening and publish it, but usually I’m a rule follower and publish my linkup on Friday. Friday Five, get it. This week I’m way behind on life, so I’m lucky to get this week’s written by Saturday mid-day. It’s time I’m late […]
Sometimes it’s hard being a Hokie football fan – like during the 2014 season, and when I was a student. This past fall, Virginia Tech played Ohio State early on in the season, and I was nervous. Many of our friends went to Columbus to watch the game. Bill and I didn’t. I refused to […]
The first time I heard about Yaktrax was back in 2007 when running with a friend, make that, trying to run with a friend on a very icy and snowy W&OD Trail. He was wearing something on his shoes that reminded me of a pair of tire chains. He confidently plowed ahead, while I dodged […]
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! The DC Trifecta chose Things I Like About My Favorite City to be this week’s Friday Five theme. If you’ve read […]
Back in the fall, our local meteorologists were predicting a snowier than normal winter for us – something about El Niño, La Niña, El Snowman, or something like that. Anyway, Bill and I talked about getting a treadmill for our home gym so we wouldn’t have to miss any of our winter runs. I stopped […]
Runners rarely get injured. We cross-train. We stretch after every run. We foam roll regularly. We always ice our sore muscles. We stay well hydrated. Most importantly, we listen to our bodies and stop running immediately when we feel something isn’t right. Um, not really. We have the best of intentions. Really we do. But […]
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline” – Harvey MacKay 1. Consistent Weight Training To Prevent Injuries I have been blessed to be relatively healthy with all of the running I do, and I don’t like to dwell on little niggles here and […]
On January 1, 2014 I set my running goals for the year. What better day than the last day of the year to take a look and see how I did on those goals, and to give myself a grade… 1. More trail runs and races – C Bill and I ran one trail race, […]
As the year draws to an end, it time to reassess my 2014 goals. One of my goals was to have more blogger meetups. Here’s a month-by-month look at how I did… January – Becky from Running On Happy on a training run on the W&OD Trail February – Amy from Twingles Mom at […]
As 2014 draws to an end, I’ve put together my running/racing year in pictures… My goal this year was to run a race each month, but by the time I set my goals, the local January races that I was interested in running were already filled to capacity. January ended up being the only month […]
As a couple, Bill and I have never gone out and cut down a Christmas tree. For several years, we purchased our Christmas tree from a nursery, but eventually started buying them from our local volunteer fire department. I reasoned that the fire department would surely sell the freshest-cut trees in town. Looking back, I’m […]
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! The DC Trifecta chose Holiday Traditions to be this week’s Friday Five theme. If you’ve read my blog for very long, […]
