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When you live in my world, you have to have a sense of humor.  Although honestly, I think Shoo would make even a person who doesn’t have a sense of humor laugh.  ;o) He dressed himself for church on Christmas Eve.  What you can’t tell from the picture is that (in addition to his shirt…

2011 was an interesting year for me.  My running was plagued by injury.  My younger child started all day Kindergarten.  My work hours picked up.  Pretty much nothing went according to plan (and there were some rough moments along the way), but as I finish up the year, things are looking and feeling pretty good….

Now that I’m no longer injured, I wanted to run one last race in 2011.  Unfortunately, my schedule didn’t allow me to run any of the local races in December.  Thankfully, I found the Home for the Holidays Virtual 10K to run. I wanted to wear a holiday outfit, but I don’t really have any…

Last night we made our usual Friday night trip to Mad Fox.  They were having a little Festivus celebration, complete with food and beer specials.  I, of course, had to have a glass of the beer I brewed. Yesterday I also got a couple of early Christmas gifts.  I got my gift from the blogger…

1.  I swear some times I think my garmin is on crack.  I’ll glance down at my speed and see 12:** and think “really, I don’t feel that slow.”  Then I’ll glance down a minute or so later and it will say 6:**.  It happens a lot when I run in the more urban areas…

Most of the training plans I’ve done have at least one rest day and often a day that can be rest or cross training.  In the past, rest day meant I did nothing to intentionally get my heart pumping.  I might walk to the kids’ school or kick a soccer ball around the yard with…

Most of the training plans I’ve done have at least one rest day and often a day that can be rest or cross training.  In the past, rest day meant I did nothing to intentionally get my heart pumping.  I might walk to the kids’ school or kick a soccer ball around the yard with…

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m doing HBBC, 30for60 and Tall Mom’s mile a day for December.  The question of the day is whether that’s working for me. I’ll have to say an unequivocal YES!  So far, I’ve hit 30 minutes of working out for 20 days, I’ve eaten 7 fruits and veggies a day for…

AKA hell of my own making. XLMIC challenged us to run a race that was as challenging as we could make it.  I did the best I could, but the weather decided to be only chilly and kind of windy, so it could have been worse… I’m pretty sure my sweat was made up entirely…

I love to run.  Even a bad run helps me stay sane and be a better parent.  If I only have 3-4 miles on the schedule (in my head – not officially training for anything), I have no problem getting out there.  As soon as a run gets any longer than that, my little brain…

September and October always pass in a blur for me.  Back to school, races, kids’ birthday parties, sports… you name it, we seem to have it going on.  Finally,  on November 1, I take a deep breath and take a break for a month (although this year I worked the most hours in November that…