September was a whirlwind month for me. I’m still trying to recover – and October is not exactly laid back either. I’m pretty sure that I have coffee running in my veins at this point. So, it seems appropriate to jump in on Deb and Coco‘s coffee date. If we were having coffee, I’d tell…
Tag: Friday Five
Friday Runfessions: 58 Days and Counting
This month has flown by as I madly juggle all of the balls I have in the air. Some days I predict things will completely fall on my head, but most of the time I manage to pull things out. As we approach the first of the fall ZOOMA races, I’m only mildly in panic…
Have Skirt Sports, Will Travel #sisterhoodofthetravelingskirt
Post contains Affliliate links, which means that if you purchase through them, I get paid a small commission. It’s been about 7 years since I first put on a Skirt Sports skirt and went out for a run. That first skirt was the Happy Hour skirt (basically a Happy Girl without the pockets). I fell…
August Coffee Date: Pour me another, please!
It always amazes me how fast the months slip by. It’s hard to believe I wrote my last “coffee date” post from New Zealand. We’ve been back 3 weeks and I still feel like I’m trying to catch up. Apparently, taking two full weeks off from life does not work well for me. Anyways, I’m…
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…
Five things every injury prone runner should have
Confession: I’ve run lots of miles and made lots of stupid running choices for years with minimal issues and almost no injuries. But every once in a while, I do something that lands me on the injured reserve. Luckily, I have all the things to get myself back up and running fairly quickly. Here are…
Run Local, Buy Local, Wear Local
I’ve lived in the DC area for more than 20 years. While sometimes I still wonder how that happened (I grew up as a military brat and moved all the time), this area has become my hometown. And with 16 years of running under my belt, I’ve run most races and run all over the…
It’s too hot for a February Runfession
I think that Mother Nature is suffering from hot flashes this winter. I’m used to a few random “I can wear a skirt and maybe a tank top” days, but it seems like we’ve had more than normal. And even when it’s “cold”, it’s late fall cold, not winter cold. We haven’t even had a…
Final Runfessions for 2017
Here we are with three days left in 2017. It’s the final Friday Five of the year and the final Runfessions. And I have to admit that I do have a few runfessions to share… As I write this, I’m 4.8 miles from 1400 for the year and 7.1 miles from 100 from December. I…
Tips and Tricks for a Fit Winter
Winter is coming! Or at least that’s the rumor I’ve heard LOL. Our weather has been all over the place this fall. MCM was borderline hot. The other day it was cold and rainy. Sunday it’s supposed to be in the mid 70s again. I can’t keep up! But I know that it’s inevitable and…
Time for some marathon runfessions
It’s the last Friday of the month, so it’s time to runfess the sins of October. Since the Marine Corps Marathon is fresh in my mind, all of my runfessions are related to that (or at least to the marathon distance). I runfess that within hours of finishing the marathon, I was considering running another…
How the marathon taper is like waiting to give birth
In two days, I’ll be lining up with 30,000 of my closest friends, ready to run my 4th Marine Corps Marathon. I haven’t been this trained for the race since I ran it for the first time in 2008. Which means, for the first time in a while, I went into taper actually NEEDING to…