Sometimes I intentionally make crazy choices. Sometimes crazy choices find me. This weekend was a case of the latter happening. Back in December, Pacers Running offered an amazing discount if you signed up for 5 races at once. Since they are my local running store and race company, I often run their races. I decided…
5 Stages of Ragnar Relay Packing
Packing for Ragnar is an art not a science, but I go through the same 5 stages every single time. 1. Panic! You don’t know where every thing is, you need to do a load of laundry, and you don’t know what you want to wear. This stage is often the longest stage as you…
Kicking off the fall race season
I love fall. It’s my favorite time of year. The mornings and evenings are cool, it’s still light out for lots of hours, and the race scene picks up again (as does my pace.) Every fall I think “I don’t have many races, just Marine Corps Marathon”, so I sign up for a race and…
Lifetime Half #69: Navy Air Force Half Marathon
Navy Air Force Half Marathon September 17, 2017 2:28:42 Temp: 73* with 95% humidity What I wore:visor, tank top, a Skirt Sports Gym Girl Ultra, Balega socks, and Altra One 2.5 I am currently in the highest mileage month of training for the Marine Corps Marathon. I’ve been running a lot of double digit runs…
Tips for Captaining a Ragnar Team
So, you’re going to run a Ragnar Relay. It might be your first time, but it might not. But someone has convinced you that you should be the captain. Or maybe you were crazy enough to want that responsibility. Whatever. The end result is that you are now the Captain of a team that will…
The highs and lows of summer 2017
Summer is over. Normally, summer hangs on until it is no longer officially summer, but for some reason this year, summer decided to leave when the kids went to school. We’ve had perfect running weather nearly every day for the last couple of weeks. I’ve actually even managed to go out for some runs without…
Mantra for the week: Be Awesome
From a training standpoint, last week was a week of highs and lows. I made the mistake of running my recovery runs to fast plus stress levels were high here as the boys were starting school. This resulted in a total failure of my 1.5 mile repeats on Tuesday. I just could not hold my…
Where to celebrate the Marine Corps Marathon with a beer
It’s Friday, Frr Frr Frr Friday! This week has kicked my butt. The kids had their first day of school on Tuesday. I’ve run about a billion miles (ok, only 29 in 4 days, but still…) I’ve been to a million stores looking for supplies (the high school and middle school here give us supply…
First day of school means fall training has begun
Here we go! Another school year is about to begin. I’m kind of in denial that I no longer have a kid in elementary school, but the big change this brings is that everyone is out of the house before 7:30am now. We’ll see if that means I get out the door to run earlier…
DuClaw Devil Made Me Do It Bourbon Brownies
Thank you DuClaw Brewing for sponsoring this post and sending me the DuClaw Devil Made Me Do It. All opinions and the brownie recipe are my own. Welcome to another 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…
Lessons Learned from Summer Training
In the month of August, I ran 148.9 miles total. Yes, it did pain me not to run 1.1 more miles, but I also knew I was doing a long run on September 1, so didn’t feel like pushing past my training plan. Anyways, I’ve only run more miles in a month 6 times before-…
August running by the numbers
It’s that time of month again – the last Tuesday of the month. It’s the one where we evaluate how our running/training went for the month. Join Marcia and Patty and me as we talk about the ups and downs of running through August. I’m going to take a little different approach this month. What…