MCM Mama Runs for Beer and Bling
Sorry, guys, this one is for the girls. I’ve been running for a long time. I ran sporadically during college, as part of a varied workout plan post college and pre kids, and regularly for the last 21 years. As you can imagine, my body has changed a lot in that time (including a 50…
I confess that I’m a bit of a fan girl of women running legends. Not just the fast girls (although Jacqueline was that as well), but of the ladies who came before me who broke the barriers to women in running. Jacqueline Hansen is one of those women. She not only was the first woman…
Mainly Marathons Appalachian Series – South CarolinaMarch 27, 20222:47:45 What I wore: hat, tank top, long sleeve quarter zip, capris, and Altra Rivera Location: Seneca, SC (State #41!) Let’s just start out with the truth – this race was the hardest of the races and pretty much sucked. I chose to do the early start…
Mainly Marathons Appalachian Series – AlabamaMarch 26, 20222:41:09 What I wore: hat, tank top, a Skirt Sports Lotta Breeze Skirt, compression socks, and Altra Rivera Location: Macon, GA (State #40!) After the race in Alabama, I decided that taking the early start in Georgia made sense. Beer Geek could drop me off and go back…
Apparently I only write coffee posts when I’m in Michigan. I guess my body is hard wired to wake up early, but the college kid has no interest in an early wakeup call. I’d run, but it’s raining and I did not bring the right running clothes, so here I sit. I’m joining Deb and…
Mainly Marathons Appalachian Series – AlabamaMarch 25, 20222:38:10 Temp: high 40s-low 50s What I wore: hat, tank top, a Skirt Sports Hover Skirt, compression socks, and Altra Rivera Location: Eufaula, AL I’ve been wanting to run this race for several years, but it used to be a fall series and fall was just too crazy…
Brrr! March came in like a lamb in Virginia with some warm weather, but I’m up in Michigan getting the kid for spring break and it’s definitely not warm here. I’m currently sitting in my hotel room waiting for classes to be over so we can head home, so I figured I’d join Deb and…
It’s been a long time since I got serious about a training plan and even longer since I prioritized my running goals. From work to kids to Covid, I kept finding excuses to not actually put in the training. I did a decent job of training for the MCM 50k in 2019, but that was…
This month has both been about a million years long AND flown by at the same time. I really meant to write more often this month (and actually wrote some posts in my head, which I had not done in a long time), but I never seemed to find time to write. But I have…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 2 years since Covid became a virus “of interest”. It was a few more weeks before we started hearing about it and a little over two months before the US shutdown, but the growth had already begun. 2020 went from a year with amazing plans to a year…
I can’t believe that the last time I wrote a post was in late May. My older kid was home, having survived a semester away at school but taking online classes, but the younger one was still in the final (painful) weeks of online school. I honestly don’t think I’d given that much as a…
It’s been a minute since I even remembered I have a blog. Lately I’ve found myself on Instagram and Facebook more because, quite frankly, forming more than a couple of sentences at a time has been beyond me. It’s not that I’m necessarily busier than normal, it’s more that my attention span is spread over…