Way back in 2002, the Inaugural Washington DC Marathon ran through history… but only briefly. I believe their hopes were to become the spring version of the Marine Corps Marathon, but that wasn’t to be. There was no race morning packet pick-up, so our friend Bob and I drove over to Stadium-Armory on Friday […]
The National Marathon was run from 2006 through 2010, before becoming the Rock ‘N’ Roll USA Marathon in 2011. The inaugural marathon had a qualifying time of 4:30 which meant a lot of people weren’t able to run it. Five and eight years after the fact, I’ve prepared a throwback recap for the 2006 and […]
I’ve decided to be one of the cool kids again this month and join in the fun with Amanda and Becka for their Runner’s Tell All Monthly link-up. If you remember, last month I wrote My Running Story In 250 Words as part of their link-up. This month their cue was to write about your […]
Perhaps some good has already come from the tragic death of one our local runners. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that the trails had been plowed of the nine inches of snow we got overnight from Sunday to mid-day Monday. Not all of our running trails have been plowed, but the ones that […]
I love snow more than most people I know. I don’t dream about being at the beach during the winter. In fact, if I were out of town in a warm location and heard that we got hit back home with a really big snow storm I’d be pretty bummed! Our overnight dumping of nine […]
Earlier this year, I was contacted by Fitletic and asked if I would like to review one of their running belts. After a quick trip to their website and a few conversations with their marketing director, we decided the Ultimate II Running Belt with the 8-Ounce Hydration Add-on would best fit my needs. My goal […]
The running community is absolutely amazing, but I already knew that! This morning I ran with two other MRTT ladies for the very first time. Many from our group were either running in the Rock ‘N’ Roll USA Half Marathon or the Lucky Leprechaun 5K, so that left only three of us to brave […]
Yesterday was another very sad day for our running community. A local mom was hit by a car and killed while out on her morning run. She was doing something many of us have done every morning for years… We get up super early to get our run in before showering, waking the children, getting […]
I think most runners will agree that being over-dressed for a run is pretty miserable, and new runners often ask me how to dress for the many different temperatures we have in Virginia. The Cruisers have always said that they look at how I’m dressed when I step out of the car for our […]
Yesterday I started my last morning visiting my mom with a 12-mile extra-hilly run. My run was far better than my previous one, but those hills put a hurting on me. My total time was 2:00:54 (10:04 pace), and my quads are still complaining! I ran past the trash and recycling center and since they […]
Mom and I had some errands to run in town yesterday so I got up early for my run. Not so early that I was afraid of running into a coyote or bear coming in from an early morning of foraging for food, but early enough to see most of the sun rise. As I’ve mentioned […]
As you know, I’m visiting my mom this week and that means that my running routes are far different than those that I see at home. Settle back and let me take you on a run along the very same roads that a very young Deb used to run… Wearing my Asics Gel Scouts, I […]
Yesterday, I was cleaning about 8.5 inches of snow off of my car and postponing my trip to visit my mom. Today, VDOT had my back, and it was clear sailing all of the way across the great Commonwealth of Virginia! Stay tuned for some muddy country road runs in the next few days… Questions: […]
This morning Bill, several Cruisers, and I ran the Reston 10 Miler. It’s a part of the =PR= Race Series that I’ve told you about before, and this particular race benefited the South Lakes High School Track & Field team. Back when I last ran this race in 1998 and 2001, Potomac River Running Stores […]
Tomorrow I’m running the Reston 10 Miler again for the first time in several years. This prompted me to dig deep to remember stories from the previous years I’ve run it. The first thing I learned is that I’ve only run the race twice before, but I would have guessed that I’d run it several […]
Soooo, I did it again! Yesterday while demonstrating an exercise to a client, I tweaked my back. It feels pretty good except when I first stand up after sitting, and then I walk all stiff and bent over for a couple of minutes while my back spasms… and then I’m fine. I immediately put heat […]
We’ve had a couple of unexpected snowfalls this week, but you won’t hear me complaining until mid-March. Then even this snow-lover will be ready for spring. Yesterday morning we woke up yet again to fresh snow on the ground and snow coming down at a pretty steady pace. I got up with plans to go […]
About a month ago, Courtney at Don’t Blink. Just Run commented that she was having difficulty breaking through the plateau in her weight loss journey. In the early months of Courtney’s weight loss journey she saw good results, but then things slowed down and she stopped losing weight. This isn’t unusual, and I told her […]
I have a deep-seated weariness that I haven’t experienced in a very long time. It’s the kind of weariness that I used to experience after I spent the day cutting the grass, spreading mulch, and planting flowers, after going on a long run with the Cruisers earlier in the morning! The only difference is that […]
Last night Becky from Running On Happy sent me a text letting me know about a running link-up that she thought I’d be interested in joining. It sounded like a fun challenge to get my running story down to 250 words, so I decided to join the fun! MY RUNNING STORY My brother talked our […]
