It’s less than a month until I meet up with Kim and her friends at the Riverboat Series. I am balanced precariously between excited and exhausted. Excited because I’m really looking forward to seeing my friends: Kim and many who I met at Dust Bowl last year. Exhausted because I’m in my hardest training week…
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Unplanned rest day + a very beery WIAW
This was supposed to be a 50 mile week. Not.going.to.happen. I’ve been dealing with pain in the ball of my foot for over a year now. I recently made an appointment with a podiatrist to confirm that it is Morton’s neuroma and to see what my options were. Interestingly, since I dropped a certain shoe…
WIAW: Blue Apron Review
A friend of mine recently gave me a free trial of Blue Apron. Blue Apron is one of a number of delivery services that have popped up that provide you with recipes and all of the ingredients that you need to cook them. In this case, you get three meals, all selected by Blue Apron. …
What I cooked Wednesday
Without any really good pictures because I’m totally lame… We have been slowly revamping our diets around here. I guess you’d call it more of an attempt to eat clean. I’m going for more of an emphasis on unprocessed, whole foods. My kids (like many kids) LOVE chicken nuggets. Love them. Could subsist entirely on…
A year in running & WIA race day
Miss Zippy asked recently “How was your year in running?” I can never resist a chance to look back at my running, so I took her up on it. Best race experience? Honestly, every race this year was the best.race.ever. I only ran half marathons – not intentionally, but somehow I didn’t run my standard…
Eating the Rainbow (WIAW) and International Dreams
Yesterday’s Elf4Health challenge was to “Eat the Rainbow”. I tend to be pretty veggie centric anyways, but I made an effort to add extra veggies to every meal. Added to the challenge was that I’m refusing to go to the grocery store until we finish all the produce and leftovers in the fridge. Red:…
Thanksgiving prep and WIAW
Every other year I host Thanksgiving. It’s usually just us and one other family, but somehow I always end up with a stupidly big turkey. Since I have the smallest oven available in a first world country, I cook the turkey on Wednesday and then heat it in the crockpot the next day. Last time…
Walking and WIAW
My kids had the day off yesterday. It was called a teacher workday (and it is the end of the first quarter), but it intentionally coincided with election day since many of the schools are polling places. Luckily, both kids got invited to do activities with friends, so it was a win/win day – we…
Random thoughts and WIAW
This week has been weird. The kids had off Friday and Monday (Shoo had Thursday off as well) and my parents were here for the weekend. These are good things, but it still threw me off. Yesterday I took my parents to the airport, went grocery shopping, and attempted to get caught back up at…
Slump + WIAW
I don’t like summer. There. I said it. I sometimes feel like the only person on the planet who could happily live someplace where the temperature never goes above 75 degrees. I just don’t like being hot. And let’s not talk about the Virginia humidity. Gross. I struggle every year at this time. Just as…
Cutting the cheese for WIAW
No, I’m not talking about flatulence… I’m talking about actually cutting cheese out of my diet. Dairy and I have a rocky past. Both of my boys had milk allergies as babies, so I had to cut all dairy while nursing. (Yes, even the trace stuff in processed foods. Yes, it sucked. And it sucked…
WIAW brought to you by Schwan’s
“They” say that timing is everything. I was recently given the opportunity to receive some food from Schwan’s for review. I jumped at the chance and they asked me to tell them what I’d like to try. You know how you should never go to the grocery store hungry? Well, you should also never peruse…