MCM Mama Runs for Beer and Bling
Here we are bright and early on a Monday morning. (Or really, dark and early. It was a rough start today). I’m joining HoHo and Tricia for the Weekly Wrap and closing out 2015. Last week was a busy week. The boys and I were pleased to have a snowy day in Wisconsin before we…
You know I like to make races part of my vacations. Heck, I like to make races the actual vacation. LOL. Luckily, Beer Geek loves to travel so he’s joined me for several Mainly Marathon series: Dust Bowl, Riverboat, and Center of the Nation. He’s also gone with me to Cape Cod (where he looked…
We have awful internet connection tonight (but my phone did regain 4G literally as we crossed the border into Nebraska!), so I’m just sharing a few of my favorite photos from our trip. Thursday’s race was not my favorite, but I have 4 done! Here are my recaps for Montana and North Dakota. I hope…
The title pretty much covers my trip to Asheville last week. It was an amazing trip, but it did not do any amazing things to my marathon training. (Didn’t quite derail it, but close…) We drove down to Asheville via Chapel Hill. I went there for grad school, so wanted to take the kids there…
Last summer we did a huge vacation to Ireland. It was amazing to visit there and we had a fabulous time as a family (and I got to run my first international race!)
It’s time! Here we go with another Ragnar – this time in Cape Cod. When I wrote my packing post last time, I was running a local race. No airlines were involved and I left my house Friday morning and returned Saturday afternoon. Things are a little different when you Ragnar away from home. To…
I’m made no secret of my love of Skirt Sports products. A skirt that is well made, cute, fits me well, and allows me to run without chafe? Sign me up. Or perhaps just take my credit card… But since I became an ambassador last year, I’ve fallen more and more in love with the…
I like to travel. I always have. In recent years, I’ve added a new dimension to that travel: the racecation. Just this year alone, I’ve done 5 half marathons in 5 days and half marathons in Maryland, Delaware, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Ireland. What does that have to do with sports laundry detergent? Well, have…
Update: Apparently this won’t be off the beaten path for long. Rumor has it that they will be filming part of the Star Wars movie here. Beer Geek tends to like to do things that are a bit off the beaten path. When he heard about Skellig Michael, he let me know that it was…
There used to be a time when we’d go on vacation and I’d come back a few pounds heavier. We’d go out for every meal and I hadn’t yet learned to choose smaller, lighter meals for the majority of my meals. It was VACATION and I was going to eat what I wanted. Yeah. As…
Ireland was amazing. There’s really no other way to describe it. With the exception of our flight back (which actually went smoothly once we took off), the trip went as perfectly as one could imagine. So, I’m going to take the Friday Five topic that Cynthia, Mar, and Courtney came up with and spin it…
I’ve traveled to a lot of races. I’ve run races at the beginning of vacations and at the end of vacations. I’ve driven us much as 6 hours just to run a race (ok, I admit it may have been more to spend time with the lovely ladies I was racing with.) Last year I…