A Big Box of Love – Team USA Uniform

August 1, 2012

A huge box just arrived, and Voila! My Team USA uniform! I have to admit, I started to blubber like a baby. Something about getting this box during the Olympics, while watching all the athletes give their hearts for their countries, just undid me. And yes, I’m super tired and haven’t had enough cupcakes, so […]

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Week In Review – I Give Up

July 30, 2012

I give up trying to get this Week In Review out on Sunday – it just ain’t gonna happen.  Weekends are crazy – and honestly, I’m just lazy. I want to get my miles in, and then not think about running. And since this is a running blog, my aversion extends to this blog on […]

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A Few Things You Probably (Don’t) Want to Know About Me

July 27, 2012

People send me a lot of questions – especially from Twitter (follow me 🙂 )- after reading my blog and/or my Tweets. Most of them involve what I eat, but I also get a lot of questions about training, sleep, and how Hubz puts up with me. Most of the time, I try to answer […]

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Overtraining: Over Doing It or Overreacting?

July 25, 2012

Whenever I am at peak training load, I am like a (very clumsy) tightrope walker trying to balance my desire to move forward with my need to stay safe (and for runners, this means healthy). To do this, I have to pay very close attention to the signs of overtraining – and when I see […]

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Week In Review – Late Again

July 23, 2012

I know, I know.  But with jury duty this morning, two driving tests looming large tomorrow necessitating a crash course in parallel parking for my 16 year-old sons, tickets bought in advance to The (3 hour long) Dark Knight Rises for yesterday, and 140 miles to finish, my weekend was jam packed. So, once again, […]

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Serial Killer Monkeys, Pterodactyl Poop and Sarah Palin – What I Think About While I’m Running

July 20, 2012

“What do you think about when you are running so many miles a day?” is the question I get asked most often by non-runners. I know what they want to say is, “Clearly you are mentally disturbed, so tell me what scary, dark thoughts go on in that whacked-out brain of yours,” but weren’t raised […]

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