After weeks of reading other Friday Five linkups, I’ve decided it’s high time I participate… especially since this weekend I will be hanging out with two of the three ladies hosting the linkup. DC area bloggers Courtney at Eat Pray Run DC, Cynthia at You Signed Up for What?!, and Mar at Mar on the Run! are the clever bloggers behind […]
After weeks of tweeting, instagraming, facebooking, and blogging about Cooking Light and Health’s Fit Foodie 5K Race Weekend, it’s almost here! Are you ready for a fun filled healthy weekend in the Mosaic District in Fairfax ? I certainly am! I’d love to take this opportunity today to give a shout-out to the sponsors […]
This year, the word selfie has been added to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: self·ie : an image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks I started this blog post last summer at the beach after I took my very first selfie in the car on our […]
On this first Father’s Day without my dad, I thought it would be the perfect time to brag about Dad’s baseball accomplishments! Dad would never have told you these things, but if you started asking questions, he would have told you some great baseball stories. Asking Dad’s friends about his baseball accomplishments; however, opened a […]
What do you get when you combine ten Cruisers, seven MilesRun members, one MRTT runner, and one guest? A whole lot of fun, that’s what! Today was the whatever-annual Miles’ Pancake Run. For years Miles and his wife hosted the event at their home in Maryland, but last year they had their house on the […]
Only four weeks after running Boston in 2010, one of my friends sent me an email about an upcoming event just two weeks away, The North Face Endurance Challenge. The two-day event included 50-Miler, 50-K, marathon, marathon relay, half marathon, 10K, and 5K races. I immediately decided to enter the marathon despite telling the Cruisers […]
Weeks of excitement and preparation for a major holiday can lead to depression during the days immediately after. That’s me today, the day after National Running Day… It’s time to take down the holiday tree decorated with running shoes, GU packets, race bibs, and finisher medals. It’s time to throw out the leftover holiday pasta […]
Yesterday I mentioned that to celebrate National Running Day, I am planning a joint celebration run with my MRTT friends and my Cruisers friends. It’s going to be awesome! Since I will be celebrating with these two very important groups of friends, I decided to reach out to them and ask them why they run. […]
Top Ten Reasons I’m happy that tomorrow is National Running Day… 10. I get to plan a party on the trail (group run); this time in the evening. 9. I get to see the Cruisers mid-week for a special run. 8. I get to see my MRTT friends when I’m actually awake. 7. I […]
As I mentioned on Monday, I took the Road Runners Club of America Coaching Certification Course last weekend. It was an intense two-day course (mainly because I had to sit for 18 hours) where I learned important new concepts, and validated what I already practice with my running clients. I have wanted to add the […]
As a Sweat Pink Ambassador and member of Fit Approach, I was given the opportunity to try LYFT Clean Caffeine Energy Stir Sticks at no charge, in exchange for writing a review of their product. Even though I was given the product for free, all opinions are 100% my own. On Friday afternoon two stir […]
Throwing a party is all about organization… and delegation; especially if you’re not at home all weekend, and will be arriving home only 30 minutes before your guests arrive! Bill and I have a summer kick-off barbecue every Memorial Day weekend and invite about 60 families. It started off about ten years ago with four […]
Today’s post is a replay from last Memorial Day weekend… On this Memorial Day weekend, let us not forget those who fought and paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we might live freely in this beautiful country. May God bless our nation’s heroes buried at Arlington National Cemetery; and we must not forget those who have […]
Just for the heck of it, I put little red dots on this body map to represent where I’ve had some of my basal cell carcinomas and my melanoma removed. Can anyone decipher the code? I thought about drawing lines from each dot to the next to see if there were any subliminal messages like, […]
Recently my blog has been hijacked by throwback race recaps and skin cancer posts. Seriously, how have you survived without knowing my every move? I’m not sure why it’s been so important to me to chronicle every marathon; but it has, and it’s been a blast digging through my old race pictures, talking to Bill, […]
I was out of town this past weekend, and as much as I would have loved it, I wasn’t able to participate in Carter’s Run. If you remember, I introduced you to Carter back in April, and this was the big weekend his family and friends had prepared for all year. I’m sure they’ve already […]
I’m so excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a race ambassador for The Fit Foodie 5K Race Weekend in Fairfax, VA scheduled for the weekend of June 20-22! Wine, gourmet food, and running wrapped up in one tidy weekend sounds like my kind of weekend! “The Fit Foodie Race Series differs from […]
Three times a year I see my dermatologist Dr. Ha for a full body skin and lymph check. I’ve been seeing him since about 2000 after my mom suggested I have a dermatologist look at a flaky place over my lip. It was precancerous and he froze it off, but in the process of the […]
Today is Mother’s Day and I have to admit that I have a pretty cool mom. I’ve always said that Mom was a women ahead of her time. When she and Dad got married she was a teacher with a two-year business degree. A few years after I was born, she knew that if she […]
This morning’s TKO Melanoma 5K was a ton of fun; well, except for while I was running which was hard work! This second annual race was in memory of Theresa O’Conner, a loving wife and mom, who lost her battle with melanoma in 2012. Running this race yearly and spreading the word about melanoma is […]
