How is it only Thursday? I feel like I’ve been through two weeks at least in the last two days since school started. I thought I was supposed to have free time once the kids went back to school? Ha! Anyways, it’s Thursday and I’m doing a bit of a mind dump AKA Thinking Out…
Category: hot
TOTR: Hot weather running + Timex GPS watch giveaway
Baby, it’s hot outside! OK, maybe I shouldn’t complain because my Tuesdays on the Run partners in crime, April and Patty, live in Florida and Arizona. They know hot. But since our topic for the week is hot weather running, I’m going to talk to you about my training plans and give you some tips…
Strip marathoning and I chose to do this
My brain is going about a million miles a minute right now. Too bad I can’t run that fast LOL. So, I’m hooking up with Amanda at Running with Spoons again for Thinking Out Loud Thursday. 1. As I expected, the weather here has started to warm up. We are looking at starting temps around…
I’m an expert…
Sometimes life is too serious and we need to laugh at ourselves. I saw this topic on A Lady Goes West yesterday and it made me laugh… and think about what I’m an expert in. After all, we all have skills. Some of them we learned, some of them we come by naturally. Some of…
What a lovely day for a run… or not
Pouring rain? Thunder and lightning? Code red air quality? High heat? Freezing cold? Winds that could blow you off the planet? Which one of these have you raced in? That’s right, today’s topic for Tuesdays on the Run, is “Worst Race Conditions.” When Patty, April, and I started discussing this topic, I was like “oh,…
TTT: Kindrunner, hot running, and bye bye Jeep Cherokee
1. Kindrunner has been around for a month and to celebrate they’ve decided to pay the kindness forward. Kindrunner.com announces “48 Hours of Paying Forward the Kindness!” We are so confident that anyone who experiences our website and learns our mission will want to take part that we are willing, for the first time ever,…
I need to be independently wealthy
Why? Because I need a cabin or cottage or beach house in the north in the summer. I mean, Beer Geek works from home four days a week. It would work. He could fly up every Wednesday night, work from our summer home and then fly home on Tuesday evening to be in the office…
Virginia Summer + Foodie Pen Pal!
Virginia is hot and stupid humid in the summer. This is not breaking news. But this year, Virginia has been kind enough to throw in some low humidity days and some cooler weeks. For example, last year’s end of school picnics were all cut short because of 100* weather and air quality advisories. This year,…
Cutting the cheese for WIAW
No, I’m not talking about flatulence… I’m talking about actually cutting cheese out of my diet. Dairy and I have a rocky past. Both of my boys had milk allergies as babies, so I had to cut all dairy while nursing. (Yes, even the trace stuff in processed foods. Yes, it sucked. And it sucked…
Blue Ridge Half Marathon Race Report
The Blue Ridge Marathon bills itself as “American’s Toughest Marathon.” I’m here to tell you that the half marathon is no joke either. It was definitely the hardest race course I’ve ever run on. Short story: I finished in 2:20:48 (my slowest half where I wasn’t pacing someone), 13th in my age group and darned…
100% humidity
In some place, 100% humidity would mean it was actually raining. Not in Virginia. Here it meant that all the rain we got last night was coming up from the ground and making it feel like I was running underwater. Since I’ve never really perfected that breathing water thing, it was a pretty miserable run….
No tempo for me
Yesterday, a very generous friend offered to take both boys (she has one boy Jones’ age) so that I could go for a run. I took her up on it and headed out for a run around 2:30 pm in 86 degree weather. I had my handheld filled with berry nuun and didn’t push myself…