October 2009

Beautiful day

October 28, 2009

I wanted to title this post “my a$$ hurts”, but thought that wasn’t necessarily what people would want to see on their blog rolls and in their readers. This morning when I dropped off Jones at school, I commented that I needed to get Shoo to early drop off to take advantage of the beautiful [...]

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Color me crazy

October 26, 2009

Beer Geek says I’m happiest when I have something to obsess over. I say I’m happiest when I have goals and am working toward them. Either way, I don’t do well when my life is in “wash, rinse, repeat” mode. I find myself unmotivated and just sort of blah. Things are fine here and even [...]

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Wishing good luck to all the marathoners tomorrow!

October 25, 2009

Tomorrow is the Marine Corps Marathon. It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since I ran it. I started this blog to have an outlet during training and not drive all of my friends and family crazy. I chose the name “MCM Mama” without considering that I might keep writing after the marathon. [...]

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TIART: Tell me about your racing

October 22, 2009

Today I’m the host of Take It and Run Thursday for the Runner’s Lounge. I’ve been looking forward to this for months! I enjoy reading everyone’s contributions each week and I’m really looking to hearing what you all have to say. So, my question for this week was this: We’ve all discussed why we run, [...]

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I’m a Fanatic!

October 19, 2009

OK, really just a “Half Fanatic“. Yep, with that lovely combination of two half marathons in two weekends in May, I qualified for the lowest level of membership, AKA a Neptune. The best part about it? Now I have my first goal for 2010 – to qualify for the next level. I don’t know if [...]

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TIART: If I only had a…

October 16, 2009

This week Tall Mom is hosting Take it and Run Thursday for the Runner’s Lounge. She asks… Scarecrow asked for a Brain, Tin Man for a Heart, and Lion for Courage. If you could meet the Wizard of Running and ask for anything what would it be? When your wish was granted how would your [...]

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The Forerunner is not an attractive bracelet…

October 15, 2009

Unfortunately, despite charging it last night, my garmin was not up for the 8 mile run today and crashed almost immediately. Grrr. Fortunately, the run was good despite my missing running buddy. I ran an approximately four mile loop and then a three mile loop and then one of my measured miles that I use [...]

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Pimping me out to races

October 14, 2009

As a runner, it’s important to have the support of family and friends. As a running mom, it’s essential. It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to run and race if I didn’t have Beer Geek’s support. He’s always been really good about making sure I have time to run and sometimes sends me [...]

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Round 1 done

October 12, 2009

Running and blogging have had to take a bit of a back seat this past week. I’ve been a little busy with other endeavors. Jones turned 8 today and I got to spend the better part of yesterday creating this masterpiece: In case you can’t tell, those are lightsabers from Star Wars. I’m neither a [...]

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Where to from here?

October 8, 2009

I ran most of the summer without a plan. I had a vague plan to make sure I put in enough long runs to be able to finish the 10 miler, but that was about it. I only ran a few runs longer than 8 miles and speedwork was pretty much non-existant. All I have [...]

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