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Life has been kind of grey lately.  No major problems (thank goodness), but lot of little annoyances.  Yesterday was a much better day. We woke to and walked to school in a light dusting of snow I ran a really slow but PAIN FREE! 3 miles on the treadmill This came in the mail (Thanks…

Miss Zippy tagged me with some running related questions.  Since I don’t have a lot of running to talk about these days, I’m actually going to answer them.  ;o)  I did manage a 3! mile run on the treadmill today.  I felt a few twinges near the end, but nothing major.  My goal for the…

Miss Zippy tagged me with some running related questions.  Since I don’t have a lot of running to talk about these days, I’m actually going to answer them.  ;o)  I did manage a 3! mile run on the treadmill today.  I felt a few twinges near the end, but nothing major.  My goal for the…

As you know, a little over a month ago, I embraced the RRCA theory of running slow to run fast.  It basically involves running a LOT of miles slowly.  Tonia and G recently embraced this method and have been knocking out PRs left and right, so it does work.  Unfortunately, I managed to injure myself…

1.  So about that picture…  Marlene hit the nail on the head.  And, no, it wasn’t staged.  The (empty) beer was still on the table from the previous night and I was blogging about hurting my achilles at the Turkey Trot LOL.  I was actually not particularly thrilled he took the picture. 2. Today I’m…

Beer Geek couldn’t resist snapping this picture because he said it represents me so perfectly.  Can you guess the aspects he’s referring to? Cafe Press offered me a free custom Sigg bottle.  Since I LOVE reusable bottles and can always use another Sigg, I took them up on the offer and designed a bottle for…

I’m having “writer’s block” these days and I blame it on the lack of running.  It’s not just blogging about running that’s affected.  I haven’t felt like updating my facebook status or tweeting or writing on my other blog.  I’ve even had trouble with real life writing I’m expected to do.  Somehow, not having time…

Ok, it was slow (very slow) and only two miles, but it DID.NOT.HURT!  Woohoo!  I had a tiny bit of soreness when I pressed on my achilles after I ran, so I iced it, but it didn’t hurt while I ran.  Yay! I did a short warm-up walking on the treadmill and probably averaged about…

Look what came in the mail yesterday! Pacers had a series where if you ran all the races in the series, you got a medal.  “Run Arlington” included 5 races in Arlington County.  I managed to run in all of them. First up was the Love the Run You’re With 5k. Thanks to the “Snowpocalypse”,…

For the last two weeks, I’ve felt a bit like I’m being stoned to death by pebbles.  I’m thankful that all of my problems are relatively minor, but the inconvenience and frustration factor is way up there.  Every time I start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, something new happens.  Today, we…

I haven’t run since my Turkey Trot.  Saturday’s planned 3 miler?  Didn’t happen.  Sunday’s 9 miles?  I didn’t even try.  For the first time in 2010, I won’t be hitting 100 miles for the month.  I’m not thrilled, but I’m getting close to acceptance of it.  In fact, I no longer have any mileage goals…

This morning I ran my local Turkey Trot.  It’s always a fun race, but definitely not a PR kind of race.  I spent the first mile tripping over dogs, strollers, and small children.  I also spent the first mile wondering if my achilles was going to snap.  Umm, yeah, I’m headed to the injured reserve…