I’m not gonna lie. Our vacation was AMAZING. But I’ve been home since Sunday and I’m still struggling to recover. The almost 16 hour flight from Sydney to Houston, coupled with the layover and then 3.5 hour flight from Houston to DC wore me out completely. Add in the fact that it’s literally day and…
5 Tips for running in a foreign country
One of my favorite parts of traveling in a foreign country is to go for a run while we are there. It’s a great way to combine getting some exercise with doing a bit of sightseeing. But not every location is conducive to a safe run and even those that are, requires some thought before…
Getting coffee halfway around the world
It’s time for a coffee date, international style. I’m joining up with my friends Deborah and Coco for a virtual coffee date (they are both local to me – I should meet up for a real coffee date…) I’m also linking up with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for Friday Five 2.0. If we were having coffee, I’d tell you…
Ragnar Pennsylvania Recap: Ultra Version
This past spring when my close friend (and multiple Ragnar teammate) suggested running Ragnar PA, I was all over it. When she suggested running it as an Ultra team, I was, umm, a little nervous. But I decided I was all in and signed up for a bunch of half marathons as training runs. I…
Tuesdays on the Run: Celebrating the 4th of July
Today on Tuesdays on the Run, the topic is July 4th. In the US, that’s Independence Day and we’ve been known to celebrate by watching fireworks on the Mall. (We’ve also been known to celebrate by going to bed at our normal time. Yeah, we are exciting like that.) This year’s a little different. I’m…
Do you have to run to make a runfession?
Seriously, I feel like I’ve forgotten what it’s like to run 5 or 6 days a week. Now it seems like I’m running 5 or 6 miles a month. Sigh. Runfession #1: I think I ran fewer than 50 miles in June – 30 of those miles were at Ragnar. That’s right – more than…
DuClaw Sour Me This Cherry Soup
Thank you DuClaw Brewing for sponsoring this post and sending me the DuClaw Sour Me This . All opinions and the cherry soup recipe are my own. Welcome to the June edition of “Cooking with Beer”! Each month DuClaw Brewing sends me a beer and a friend and I create a recipe. It’s a fun time to think outside…
The highs and lows of June running
It’s that time of the month again – the time we dig deep and think about how our month went and then share for Tuesdays on the Run. I have to admit that I had a hard time deciding how I felt about June. It was somewhere between awful and epic! June was an interesting…
Tips for preparing for running Ragnar on an ultra team
Last weekend I ran Ragnar PA on an ultra team. Generally speaking, an ultra team has 6 members and one van, as opposed to 12 members and two vans. This means that you are running twice as many miles and have no time as the “inactive van.” As you might guess, this makes it an…
Skirt Sports Ambassador Retreat
In addition to traipsing all over Colorado with Beer Geek, a few weeks ago I attended the Skirts Sports Ambassador Retreat, which closes with the Skirt Sports 13er, 10K, and 5K. This was my second time attending and my second time running the 5K. Maybe next year I’ll brave the altitude and run the 13er….
School’s out for the summer!
Yes, it really just let out here (actually my middle schooler has a half day today). Yet, somehow I feel like we’ve been fulfilling our summer plans for a few weeks already. And since today’s topic for Tuesdays on the Run is “summer plans”, this post will be somewhat retrospective as well as looking to…
It’s better to undertrained than overtrained, right?
In 3 days I’ll be hitting the start line of Ragnar Pennsylvania on an ultra team. What’s an ultra team? It’s a team of 6 instead of 12 – which means you pretty much never have down time and you run twice the number of miles. It seemed like a good idea back when I…