As I mentioned yesterday, today we headed down to Fredericksburg to visit the Blue and Gray brewery. It’s only about an hour away and traffic was kind to us on the way down, so we got there bright and early. A kindly gentleman gave us some tastes of their yummy beer and then took us…
I got nothin’
It’s been a quiet week in our household, so not much to talk about. Therefore, I’ll borrow from another blogger and give you guys a little “back talk”. RE: Baby Steps Now, don’t go thinking I’m getting the kind of results one might see from a major time commitment to weight lifting. I’m not. But…
Baby Steps
This week’s TIART topic at the Runner’s Lounge is strength training, Pre-kids, I used to work out at the office gym 4 or 5 times a week. At least two of those days, I did strength training for about 45 minutes. I still preferred cardio, but I did my weights and saw some nice muscle…
Mostly Wordless Wednesday: Beer Collection
Also known as the view from my treadmill… The holiday beer collection – currently 15 6 packs and a number of individual bottles. Beers we are aging Beer Geek’s beer glass collection(and yes, that is my treadmill right next to it.)
Apparently Beer IS good food!
I just totally rocked my 13 mile run – 2:04:30! That’s a 9:35 pace, people! I even did negative splits with the second half of the run being about 40 seconds faster than the first half. I did 13.1 in 2:05:24 and finished my 13.25 miles in a total of 2:07:10. My first mile was…
All beer, no running
Tomorrow I’m planning to do a long run again – 13 miles hopefully. To prepare myself for the run, I took the day off from running and made sure to eat plenty of carbs. I’ve fueled myself with Girl Scout cookies, sea bass with spaetzle, creme brulee, and beer. Beer Geek and I went out…
FFFK Virtual Race
In honor of Non-runner Nancy, USJogger organized a Freakishly Flexible 5K to be run on or around Valentines Day. Since Nancy has done so much for us running bloggers, including hosting the very first virtual run I ran in, I decided to participate and let her know how much she’s appreciated. I was planning to…
Happy Friday the 13th!
We don’t celebrate Valentines Day here. Beer Geek is not a fan of shopping and I’m not a fan of cards and neither of us is big on made up holidays. We barely celebrate our anniversary most years, so it was quite easy to drop V Day off our list of celebrations. Now, Friday the…
Stimulating the economy
So far this week, I’ve bought new shoes, new bras, new pajamas and sweatshirts for the kids, and made a huge trip to Costco. I thought I was done this afternoon, but now I have one more purchase to make. Why? ’cause I ripped the a$$ out of my running capris. Unlike my lovely black…
Wordless Wednesday: a few of my favorite things
The long run that wasn’t
You know your run isn’t going to go well when you are already counting tenths of a mile by the time you hit a mile and a half. I set out in gorgeous weather this morning for a planned 13 mile run. I was going to take it nice and slow at a 10 minutes/mile…
Reason #543,203 that I run
Jones has developed a bit of an addiction to the Nintendo DS. We have specific rules about when he may or may not play, but are having some issues with how long he’s allowed to play. Today it was really nice outside again, so Shoo and I walked and picked him up from school. After…