It’s that time of the month again – time to confess all of our running/fitness sins with Marcia over at Marcia’s Healthy Slice. I must runfess that I have been meaning to write more than twice a month for a while now, but I’m finding that I’m definitely suffering from pandemic brain. I only have…
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July Runfessions: Surviving the Humidity
How on earth are we at the end of another month? I mean, I’m never a fan of Virginia in July, but I can’t believe it’s already over. It was a busy month, but in a totally different way than normal. I’m joining Marcia for a few runfessions to close out July. I must runfess…
Runfessions of a Run from Home Runner
Here we are, a crazy number of days into Virginia’s Stay at Home order. Today, the Northern Virginia area began Phase 1, which means more things will be open at reduced capacity and with masks required in establishments. To be honest, it’s not really going to change my behavior (we are super careful), including that…
Tips for Running a Virtual Race
It’s now been 2 months since races started getting canceled. Two months of not getting that motivation that races provide. Two months of missing the social interaction of running with (possibly 1000s) of your best runner friends. Naturally, runners are looking for something to fill that need. At the same time, organizations are trying to…
The Week I Ran ALL the Miles
If you’ve been around these parts for a while, you know I thrive on doing crazy things. I’ve never quite crossed over to an ultra runner or even a consistent marathon runner, but I love to do things like Ultra Ragnar (6 runs instead of 3) and multiple marathons or half marathons in back to…
Runfessions of a Stay at Home Runner
Funny how when I was actually a stay at home mom and runner, I never actually stayed at home. That is so not the case anymore – I’ve literally run every day for the last 30 days without going farther than 2 miles from my house. So what kind of runfessions might I have with…
Running safely in the days of Covid 19
If you’ve been around this blog for a while, you know that one of the main reasons I run is to combat depression. It helped me overcome postpartum depression and it has helped me many times in situational depression. If there was ever a time when situational depression would rear its ugly head, isolation due…
Drinking coffee by myself
This weekend is the coffee date link up with Deb and Coco. Sadly, given the current pandemic, there will be no in person coffee dates. If we were having coffee, I’d tell you that I hosted a “Corona Relay” this weekend. Every runner had to run 3 legs in 24-36 hours. I managed 13.3 miles…
Keeping my sanity during the Covid-19 / coronavirus pandemic
AKA how I’m only losing my shit occasionally during the coronavirus pandemic. I’m not going to pretend that I’m not stressed and that I haven’t had moments of panic or that I haven’t yelled at my kids, but for the most part, I’m doing ok. But it’s not just “luck” that I’m doing ok. I…
Running in the age of Coronavirus / COVID 19
I’m gonna just put this out there: I am 100% in favor of social distancing. 100.Percent. I am far from panicked, but I do believe it’s a necessary step based on everything I’ve read and some personal friends who are in the trenches. I may not be a doctor, but I am a research librarian….
Celebrate International Women’s Day with ZOOMA!
International Women’s Day is March 8, 2020. It is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. It has been celebrated for over a century and I hope that in my lifetime it becomes truly just a celebration of…
Runfessions from the winter that wasn’t
Here we are at the end of February and I’m whining about being cold, but it’s currently 33* and the high is supposed to be in the high 40s. While that’s right around the “average” high and low for February in this area, it feels like we’ve had a lot more of the average and…