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As I mentioned in a recent post, I’ve been using some of the extra time during taper to read.  My reading has consisted mostly of running related books, particularly those that might help motivate me for my upcoming marathon.  Conveniently, the long planned for The Ultimate Runner: Stories and Advice to Keep You Moving happened to be…

Today the plan called for 4 miles at an easy pace.  It was already 75 degrees when I was getting ready, so I filled my Amphipod with nuun and headed out the door.  I was doing a fairly flat route, so I figured I’d aim for about a 10 minute pace.  I hit my first…

Running Laur recently wrote an article about caring for your technical clothes.  One of the things that she mentioned was not wearing your tech clothes more than once.  The reason she cites is the sweat crystals damage the tech fibers.  Hmm.  I am guilty of re-wearing my clothes, especially shorts.  I hang them to dry…

Running Laur recently wrote an article about caring for your technical clothes.  One of the things that she mentioned was not wearing your tech clothes more than once.  The reason she cites is the sweat crystals damage the tech fibers.  Hmm.  I am guilty of re-wearing my clothes, especially shorts.  I hang them to dry…

My new readers are probably expecting me to wax poetic about my husband or kids or maybe even my garmin, but those of you who’ve been around a while know all about the other love in my life: beer. Beer Geek and I got to go out to dinner tonight without the kids.  This doesn’t…

Today I went on a field trip with Jones.  As luck would have it, it was early release day at Shoo’s school and Beer Geek had an all day conference, so I made arrangements for him to go home with a friend for lunch.  When we get out to the festival (40 minutes away), the…

I did not want to run today. I specifically did not want to run the 12 miles that I had on the calendar. I wasn’t feeling 100% mentally and I was having some minor GI issues and it’s super windy today. I nearly talked myself out of running, but when I looked at the weather,…

First, go over and give me a pity vote. Jess is kicking.my.a$$. She may be a better writer, but hey, I’ve got the beer! Back already? OK. So today, I headed out for a “recovery run”. I wasn’t really in the mood to run (I’ve been staying up too late and I’m dragging these days),…

I got up at 4:30am on Sunday morning to volunteer at the GW Parkway Classic. After a night full of anxiety dreams (I dreamt that I fell back to sleep and missed the event and that Kathy took my t-shirt away. I also dreamt that I couldn’t count to 55 and kept putting the wrong…

GU giveaway – Random.org gave me 35 and 14, which means that Missy at Ironman, IronThings… at and Lorian at Running Guarantees Sanity win! Email me at mom2shoo at gmail.com. If I don’t hear from you by the Tuesday when I get up, I’ll move on to my backups. Last Mile Half Marathon – Hopefully…

As I expected, I am ROCKING the taper. See, unlike “real” marathon runners, I love the cut back in running. Oh, wait, I haven’t actually cut back yet… I ran my 20 on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the only part of my body that hurt was one of my toes. So, I figured I should try…

Today I ran 10 wonderful miles. Too bad my actual distance was 11 miles. I planned to do 10-12 miles at an easy pace on a really hilly route. Physically, it’s a very challenging route with constant ups and downs. Mentally, I like it because it’s an out and back and has some nice landmarks…