My friend and former high school teacher and favorite blogger, One Mom in Maine, is doing something called the Clean Food Challenge this week. The pledge is this: Our plan: For 7 days, we will eat no processed food, no alcohol, no sugar, no dairy, no wheat. We will eat only: vegetables, fruit, whole […]
I was hoping to meet up with a running group my friend told me about at Bates College this morning, but I did not meet them. So, instead, I did my longest run ever! 5.46 miles, 66 minutes (including warm-up and cool-down). There has been SOO much ‘effin awesome music for exercising that has come […]
Today’s run was the point where I made my first 20-mile week! The breakdown: Sunday: Turkey Trot 5K race — 3.1 Monday: Lunchtime run ~ 3 Tuesday: Nighttime run (so nice and steamy and Christmasy!) ~ 5 Wednesday: Lunchtime run, sans music ~ 2.8 Thursday: Happy Thanksgiving! — 0 Friday: Treadmill — 3.3 Saturday: Around […]
So, I had a race report to do on Sunday … and I’ve been putting it off. I didn’t meet my goal, which was to do the race in under 30 minutes. Or at least, in less time than I did the Candy Cane 5K. But when the race time came, I didn’t try very […]
In this month’s issue of Runners World, the cover story is about motivation. Now, I’m new to the running magazine world, so I’m sure they have an article about motivation in every issue. But bear with me. In one of the stories, where the subject talks about how he entered 3 marathons before actually competing […]
So, I was a little bit off last time I blogged about when my next race was scheduled, and it turns out that it is tomorrow morning, not next week. It’s the Maine Running Company’s Turkey Trot at Cape Elizabeth High School. Originally this was going to be my “first” race, but when I heard […]
Almost no part of me wanted to go for a run tonight. It was cold (39 degrees) and dark and … did I mention cold? It was supposed to be Week 3, Day 1 of the Bridge to 10K but I just did NOT want to do it. So I ran 30 minutes instead of […]
Last year, my thing was The Biggest Loser. I love(d) that show. I know that’s it’s sappy, not intellectually fulfilling, cheap-to-produce reality TV, but … there’s something really powerful about this group of people working to overcome the biggest obstacle of their lives, and the stress and drama around that was always more important than […]
31:42! I’m looking back through my small archive and I see that I didn’t set goals with this race here. That’s probably a good thing. I’ve been using MapMyRun.com to see roughly how far I was going during my workouts and I anticipated that a 5K should take me somewhere between 30-35 minutes. So I […]
I’m heading over to Lewiston High School in a minute, where I can hear the announcer has already started (we live about a quarter-mile from the high school). I have a new race-mix playlist in hand. This is actually not my first “race” this year, as I did the Lewiston-Auburn Duathalon in June (where I […]
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