In a very few months, I'll be celebrating my 9th year of writing this blog. NINE YEARS! What?? Also in 2017, I will run my 10,000th *recorded* mile. (Yeah, I know I took some months off here and there where I didn't record my runs.) It's hard to believe that when I started, I'd never run a race longer than a 10 miler. Wrap your heads around that. Another big milestone in 2017? ZOOMA Annapolis (where I ran my very first half) will be celebrating 10 years. As a 2017 ambassador, I will be there, probably running my 70th half marathon. But enough about upcoming things, today's Tuesdays on the Run topic is "Wrapping up your year", so I'm going to look back at my goals from 2016 and see how I fared. Running Finish 7 half marathons in 7 … [Read more...]
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. The only choice you have is whether you want that week's meal, if you want meat/fish or vegetarian, and how many servings you want. If you are paying for the service, it is $9.99 per person per meal. Most important conclusion: the food was fresh and all of the recipes tasted good. Of the three, one was good but I wouldn't want again, one was good and I'd be happy to eat it occasionally, and one was good enough that I actually plan to use the recipe card … [Read more...]
