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I wanted to do a Wordless Wednesday post, but I don’t have any great recent pictures. What can I say, it’s been a quiet couple of weeks. After I dropped Shoo off at camp this morning and Jones at a friend’s house, I headed over to Old Navy to use up a rewards card. Usually,…

In the 14.5 months it took me to write 300 posts, I’ve run 1200 miles participated in 14 races (1 marathon, 4 halfs, 2 10 milers, 1 12K, 2 10Ks, and 4 5Ks) raced in 4 new states (and run in two others) met 1 RBF I’ve also been to 15 new brewpubs/breweries written 3…

Which means tomorrow’s post needs to be awesome. I know you are thinking “what, two posts in one day?” Well, we went out to dinner to a brew pub (yeah, nothing new there) and I have to do an “Alkie Saturday” about one of the beers. My first beer was a lovely Porter. Quite lovely…

A while back, one of these guys wrote a post about his marathon plan and the war of posts. I thought about that method of running a lot during my 6.65 mile run today. I planned to get up early and be out running by 8:00am at the latest. Shoo apparently had different plans and…

This week has pretty much sucked. Shoo ran a fever from Monday evening until sometime the middle of last night. His only real symptom other than the fever was crankiness. He pretty much wanted to be held and cuddled 24/7 and he’s not light. He also threw up ibuprofen more than once, so he was…

Shoo has been sick for the last couple of days. Not much in the way of symptoms, other than a pretty high fever, but he’s been one cranky boy. Since he hasn’t been sleeping well, I’m pretty tired, but thankfully, he seems on the mend today. I missed out on my long run yesterday, but…

I ran on the treadmill today because it was about 93 degrees out and humid. I just wasn’t up for that kind of run. I ended up doing a “pyramid” where I keep increasing the speed until about the 2.5 mile point and then slowly decrease the speed for the next 1.5 miles. I ended…

Today was only about 8 degrees hotter than yesterday, but the humidity is up and the breeze is gone. Luckily, this was expected so all I had on the calendar was a hilly 4 mile run. One of my mom friends BQs every year with only four runs a week and she told me that…

Jones had a huge fit at camp drop off this morning. By the time it was all resolved, I was a wreck. Shoo got dropped off a half hour late to preschool and I decided I just didn’t have it in me to deal with Costco. I had planned to push my run back until…

I feel like I’ve been running pretty much all day. It’s after 10 and I’m just now doing fun stuff on the computer. My day went basically like this: take Jones to camp, take Shoo to camp, run 7 miles, start a load of wash, shower, eat lunch, pick Shoo up from camp, go to…

Would you drive 8 hours each way to run in a 10K? I’m not sure I normally would, but the one I’m want to do is a) in a state I haven’t raced in yet, b) sponsored by a brewery, and c) on a weekend that is four days, thanks to Jones’ school schedule. The…

As I mentioned, we had the opportunity this year to go downtown to watch the fireworks from a rooftop. As it turns out, it was one of the best rooftops in the area to watch from. As you can see in the picture, we weren’t far from the Washington Monument. Slightly to my right, behind…