It may not be Spirit of the Marathon III, but we have our very own Cruiser and MilesRun movie! I just received this YouTube video that Paul Mr. Incredible put together after Miles’ Annual Blueberry Pancake Run on Saturday! In addition to riding his bike and providing us with music along the way, he stopped […]
On January 24, 2008, the Cruisers met at a local movie theater to view Spirit of the Marathon. The documentary followed six marathon runners training for the 2005 Chicago Marathon. The film was made for a limited one-night-only release at select movie theaters, and we were very lucky that it was showing nearby. We arrived […]
Happy Father’s Day, a week early! Our family has started a tradition of going to Sunset Hills Winery to celebrate Father’s Day. My friend Diane and her husband own this gorgeous winery. In addition to their beautiful tasting room in their old barn (that was totally renovated by the Amish), they have a great outdoor […]
This morning my friend Miles and several of the members of his running group (MilesRun) joined the Cruisers for Miles’ Annual Blueberry Pancake Run. The Cruisers usually travel to Maryland for the event, but this year Miles wasn’t able to host it, so Bill and I volunteered. My friend Rich surprised me with this banner […]
Guess what the Cruisers are doing tomorrow! I’ll give you a hint: It starts with a group run with another very special running group. Here are two photos that might help… Mmmmm…. chocky milk! My fingers are crossed that Tropical Storm Andrea will move out of here before dawn! Don’t forget to enter my giveaway […]
Just as Tropical Storm Andrea hits the east coast, my new Runner’s World Magazine arrived in the mail. If I can train my clients tomorrow morning plus get my chores done, perhaps I can curl up during the rainy afternoon and read it from cover-to-cover. This month is a special issue covering the Boston bombings. […]
This morning I woke up like a little kid on Christmas morning because it’s National Running Day! If you remember, 100 days ago today I started the countdown in my post Sunny Sunday! First thing I’m going to do today is go for a run with my BRF Susan, and then later today I’m running […]
I hope you’re having a fabulous National Running Day! Just to celebrate this special day, I’m going on two runs today! This morning I ran with my BRF Susan. We ran hill repeats and then ran our regular Wednesday morning route. The Cruisers are meeting for a special mid-week group run on the W&OD Trail […]
I always look forward to my mid-June runs through our neighborhood because we have so many mulberry bushes growing wild along the trails. I don’t assume, I KNOW my run will be interrupted with a mid-run snack! Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, The mulberry bush. Here we go round the […]
THIS GUY ran all around my face BEFORE I knocked him off and stomped him with my foot! My only regret is that I didn’t get a video of him running around in circles and me screaming! Actually, I think my client screamed louder than I did. She could see the spider. I couldn’t… BUT […]
This week is going to be the BEST. WEEK. EVER because I get to meet the Cruisers twice this week! We are meeting on Wednesday at 7 PM to celebrate National Running Day! We’re just going to meet at the W&OD Trail for an easy post-workday run with no fancy expectations. A Wednesday run will […]
Today was the third annual Virginia Wine Country Half-Marathon, and my third time running it! The Cruisers met this morning at Doukenie Winery for the race and our mandatory pre-race picture. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find Vamshi or Amit before the race. Little country roads lead to the winery and with so many runners trying to […]
Usually I’m in and out of a race expo pretty quickly, but not today! I went to the 2013 Virginia Wine Country Half Marathon Expo two times and stayed a total of almost three hours. This morning I picked up Bill’s, Joseph’s, and my race packets right after the expo opened. While there I visited […]
Yesterday I recapped the 2011 Virginia Wine Country Half-Marathon and promised to give you a review of the 2012 race today. If you remember, I injured my back in early February of 2012 and couldn’t run for the rest of February through most of April. I started going out for walks in early April and […]
On Saturday, eleven Cruisers will be running in Destination Races’ Virginia Wine Country Half Marathon. The course runs through the beautiful countryside of Loudoun County and we couldn’t resist giving it a try in 2011, the first year it was produced. We even put together a team, and despite thinking we wouldn’t be particularly competitive, we […]
I’m getting quite a kick out of looking at my “Marathon Check List” that I used to hand out to my running group just a few years ago. The first thing that I noticed was “single use camera.” Do they even make those anymore? So right off the top, I’ll remind you to take your […]
Today is Memorial Day and we must not forget those that fought and paid the ultimate sacrifice for us. Our freedom comes at a great cost to many, and we honor them today. Yesterday I wrote about Memorial Day and honoring our heroes, and you can see that post, Remembering Our Heroes, here. Yesterday afternoon […]
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 been wounded and struggle every day to live as they did […]
It’s the Memorial Day weekend and many of our Cruisers are traveling, so we had a lean group of three meet this morning for our weekly group run. Add the cold temps to the mix and at least one other Cruiser decided to stay in his warm bed! 🙂 It was 45 degrees when I […]
In the past I’ve looked at race medal displays at race expos and have always concluded that they either cost more than I wanted to spend, or they didn’t have enough room to hold all of our finishers’ medals… For years we had our medals displayed side-by-side on a shelf in our library. My […]
