I haven’t joined in on the Ultimate Coffee date in a while, so I thought I’d jump back on that bandwagon. However, I don’t post on the weekends, so I’m combining Friday Five and Coffee. Sounds like a perfect combination to me. Anyways, I’m joining up with my friends Deborah and Coco for a virtual coffee date (they are…
Bucket List Race: Utah Valley Marathon
Several years ago, when I first started my quest to run a race in every state, we went to Utah on vacation. I had not yet decided I needed to run half marathons in each state, so I ran a lovely 10K in Provo, UT. I’ve been kicking myself ever since – I still need to…
Rating my January running
It’s hard to believe we are already a month into the new year. It’s seemed to fly by and yet drag, all at the same time. Since we are ending the month, the topic for Tuesdays on the Run is “rate your month of running.” Did you get an A? A C for effort? Or…
Tips for surviving stressful times
This has been a challenging week. Jones has been in the middle of quarter finals. Shoo has had a rough week with his soccer team and then one of his past teachers passed away suddenly. And, well, I can’t even talk about the other things ’cause you’d find me hiding a corner somewhere… But it’s Friday…
You want how much??? 5 tips to save on races
Races aren’t cheap. These days it seems like even the small local races are starting to up their prices. Don’t get me wrong – I know that there are a lot of costs that go into races, even if you are able to get volunteers to handle much of the packet pickup and day of…
GW Parkway 10 miler training begins
This weekend was, umm, interesting. Living near DC, we are always affected by the Inauguration. Add in the Women’s March and the whole area was in a bit of an uproar. For the moment, I am continuing my personal choice of keeping politics off my blog and social media, but it was a pretty amazing weekend…
Gear to keep you warm when it’s cold outside
I love winter running. I am not a fan of heat and humidity, so I’d much rather run in all the layers than sweat through a 100* run. We haven’t had too many days so far this year to pull out the big guns, but since the topic for today’s Tuesdays on the Run is…
DuClaw Mysterium Grains of Paradise Bread
Thank you DuClaw Brewing for sponsoring this post and sending me the DuClaw Mysterium. All opinions and the bread recipe are my own. Welcome to the January 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 box and…
5 Reasons I’m excited about 2017 ZOOMA Annapolis
This year I hit my 9th year as a blogger. In that time, I’ve run 6 marathons and 62 half marathons. But what you might not know is that prior to starting this blog, I’d only run a small handful of races, with the longest one being the Army 10 Miler (and I could barely…
Building a home gym #MakeYourMove
This post is sponsored by Kohl’s. I was paid for this post and received the included exercise equipment as compensation. Confession: I am not good about cross training and I like to take the path of least resistance when it comes to exercise. I can’t tell you how often I’ve said I’m going to take a…
TOTR: Tips for planning a racecation
Have you ever gone on a racecation? I love to racecation. In fact, vacationing without a race very seldom happens around here anymore. While I do love a local race (and 2017 is going to be a bit more local focused), combining travel and racing is my favorite. Today on Tuesdays on the Run, we…
Five spring races I plan to run this year
It’s Friday, Fr…Fr…Fr… Friday! Before I get to my list of awesome spring races in the Washington DC area that I plan to run, I have to share about my week. I have never understood how a short week can always seem so much longer than a normal week. Somehow it’s like we try to…