Today I’m participating in a Coffee Blog Hop. I love good coffee almost as much as I love good beer, so it makes perfect sense to talk about the combination. While I’ve heard rumors of a coffee that tastes like beer (eww!), I’m talking about beer brewed with coffee. In the interest of research, Beer…
Category: beer
Favorite weekend of the year
Each year, Beer Geek and I attend the Great Taste of the Midwest. It is the best beer festival I’ve ever been to and each year it does not disappoint. In fact, this whole weekend was pretty amazing. Thursday we took the boys to the local festival, where they rode a bunch of rides like…
Beers of Summer – DuClaw Morgazm and Funk
Disclaimer: I have received compensation for this post, but hello? We all know how much I love beer and that I won’t drink a beer I don’t like. All opinions are my own. I love beer. If you follow me on instagram, you know that there is no question of that. I am also a…
Hills and Beer
The title pretty much covers my trip to Asheville last week. It was an amazing trip, but it did not do any amazing things to my marathon training. (Didn’t quite derail it, but close…) We drove down to Asheville via Chapel Hill. I went there for grad school, so wanted to take the kids there…
Friday Five: Favorite Summer Drinks
Today’s topic for the Friday Five with Cynthia, Mar, and Courtney is your 5 favorite summer drinks. I think it will come as no surprise that beer is on my list. In fact, last year I wrote a post about my five favorite summer beers. I thought about doing the same this year, but there…
Planning for an Asheville Vacation
Last summer we did a huge vacation to Ireland. It was amazing to visit there and we had a fabulous time as a family (and I got to run my first international race!)
Fun weekend and the training week that wasn’t
It’s Monday, so of course, it’s time to recap my weekend and last week’s training plan. This past weekend was fun, fun, fun. I was the guest instagrammer for the Skirt Sports instagram account and we had a busy weekend planned.
Thinking out loud: Ch-ch-ch-changes
Welcome to another episode of “brain dump” AKA Thinking out loud Thursday with Running with Spoons. Today’s brain dump will focus on Ragnar, marathon training, and fortuitous beer. 1. It looks like I won’t be running Ragnar DC this year. You may recall that I LOVE Ragnar. I’d run every Ragnar every year if I…
Basil parmesan pasta + Hanson’s week #2
Monday again, huh? Even with a 3 day weekend, the weekend wasn’t long enough. I’m counting down the days until vacation… Friday was a holiday around here, so Beer Geek had the day off of work. We both got up early and got out workouts in and then Beer Geek suggested we head to a…
Ultimate Coffee Date – 4th of July edition
Happy 4th of July! Hope you have some fun plans for today. I’m joining up with my friends Deborah, Coco, and Lynda for a virtual coffee date. If we were having coffee, I’d tell you that today is my mom’s birthday! Happy birthday, Mom! How cool is that to have fireworks on your birthday every year? Of course,…
Busy weekend + hydration giveaway
Summer seems to have arrived in Virginia. It may just now be June 1, but it’s been feeling like summer in the south for a week or so now. Weekly recaps with Tara and Erin will now include lots of pictures of a very sweaty me LOL. Just in case you are feeling hot too, I’m…
Memorial Weekend Recap + Black Bean Rollups Recipe
Today we thank all of those who have sacrificed for the freedoms the rest of us are enjoying. I try to keep that in mind as we enjoy our weekend and listen to Rolling Thunder as it goes by. We have had a very busy, but fun weekend. Today, sadly, will be all about getting…