April 2009

Finding balance

April 30, 2009

Today’s theme at the Runners Lounge is Time and Balance.  As in, how do you make time for running and balance it with the rest of the things in your life? Like many moms, I don’t have enough time in my day to accomplish everything I want to do.  No big surprise there.   I [...]

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Mostly Wordless Wednesday: Why my hair is going gray

April 29, 2009

What I heard from the other room: “Han Solo, use the FORCE!” What I saw when I walked into Shoo’s room: Notice that he had the cord from his shade around his waist.  I believe the next “scene” in his version of Star Wars was going to involve an attempt to swing down from the [...]

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My crazy life

April 29, 2009

I’m feeling really scattered, so today’s gonna be all about the bullet points. Today I chaperoned a 1st grade field trip to the zoo.  I actually enjoyed it. (Yes, that’s Jones in the dinosaur head) I also volunteered as the class mom for Shoo’s class next year and accepted the nomination for PTA secretary for [...]

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GW Parkway 10 miler race report

April 27, 2009

Short story:  I finished in 1:31:03 and PR’d by at least three minutes.  I was around 1400 out of 4000 runners and finished in the top 25% for women and for my age group. The rest of the story: The GW Parkway race begins at Mount Vernon and ends in Old Town Alexandria.  Like many [...]

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Long Day = Short post

April 27, 2009

I finished the 10 miler in 1:31:02.   Details tomorrow. Today was quite hot and way too busy.  After the race, the boys and I laid the bricks to start a small garden – we’ll have cucumbers, tomatoes, and arugula.  If history repeats itself, we won’t have much of any of them.  Then I headed [...]

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40 oz and some 50 state musings

April 25, 2009

No, it wasn’t one of those 40 oz beers you can buy at a gas station.   Last night we went out to one of our favorite “good beer and kid friendly” places – Rock Bottom Brewery.  A long time ago we joined their Mug Club (last night was my 20th visit LOL) and when [...]

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Fab Four for Reese

April 24, 2009

I ran my four miles for Reese’s Run (there’s still time to sign up!) today because I won’t run tomorrow or Saturday in preparation for the GW Parkway 10 miler on Sunday.  I planned to take it really slow and easy, but apparently I suck at pacing myself.  The first mile was 9:05.  A little fast, [...]

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Lululemon running short review and crazy 8′s tag

April 23, 2009

I took my new shorts (they are the Relaxed fit shorts in Tall) for a short three mile run on the treadmill today.  It was too chilly outside to run (but apparently not too chilly for Beer Geek to make me take a picture outside).  So far, so good.  They stayed in place and were [...]

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12 miles, fiber, and a white cardigan

April 22, 2009

It was beautiful here today.  When I headed out for my long SLOW 12 miles today, it was right around 60 degrees and sunny.  I went out with a goal of staying really slow and running 12 miles in two hours.  I ended up doing it in 1:56:43.   I thought it was going to [...]

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Shorts weather

April 20, 2009

Spring is definitely here.  Yesterday and today were both in the low 70s by late afternoon.  While that’s perfect capri weather when hanging out, it’s shorts weather for running. I hate running in shorts.  I have rather heavy thighs (seriously, my thighs could be the “before” picture in a weight loss photo and the rest [...]

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