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Weekend Eats & My Spring Marathon

Weekend Eats & My Spring Marathon

This weekend was just what I needed after all the travel and activity last weekend. Lots of running, good food, and friend time were involved. My training partner had a commitment Saturday morning at 9 so we met up super early at 5:45 to get 

Training Summary: 2/23/2015-3/8/2015

Training Summary: 2/23/2015-3/8/2015

Training Summary: 2/23/2015-3/1/2015 Monday – dynamic warm-up + 5 miles easy on the treadmill @ 7:42 pace + 15 minutes core work Tuesday – dynamic warm-up + 8 miles easy on the treadmill w/ 10x 30-45 second pick-ups 7:25 average pace Wednesday – 7 miles easy on the treadmill @ 7:30 pace    Thursday – 6 miles 

Best “Darn” Race Half Marathon Recap

Best “Darn” Race Half Marathon Recap

Well, my most recent half was a week ago so I guess it’s time to get to recapping it huh?  When I first signed up for a half marathon in February (in New England) I wasn’t expecting much out of it except a solid tempo 

Scenes From Our Trip to Florida

Scenes From Our Trip to Florida

Wow – long time no talk! Last weekend’s trip to Florida was a blast but we were so busy each day I didn’t have a chance to sit down and update you guys on what we were up to! The race was just okay, it 

A Week of Eats – A different kind of WIAW

A Week of Eats – A different kind of WIAW

Last week I participated in a science project for the amazing Leigha. She is doing a project in her biology class about the protein intake of different diets (vegan, vegetarian & omnivore) and asked us to track our food for a whole week. I thought that 

GO SEE IT! And a sentence per picture

GO SEE IT! And a sentence per picture

McFarland USA is hands down my new favorite movie!! I laughed, I cried, I cheered *outloud*. It was such a great movie and was so well done that I couldn’t recommend it enough. Seriously, GO SEE IT! 🙂 As for the rest of our weekend it 

Training Summary: 2/16/2015-2/22/2015

Training Summary: 2/16/2015-2/22/2015

This week was one of the best training weeks I’ve had recently. I hit 70 miles for the first time in awhile and got in 3 great key workouts. Even though two of my workouts were on the treadmill I was able to hit my goal 

Getting the Heck Outta Boston (for a warm weather race)

Getting the Heck Outta Boston (for a warm weather race)

A few notes about how crazy this winter has really been… – 3 more inches of snow last night – not much but we are slowly and surely creeping towards that #1 snowfall record! – Buzzfeed put together an awesome list of pictures of all 

Cancelled…

Cancelled…

Whelp… it’s official. The Hyannis Marathon and Half Marathon this weekend has been cancelled. It’s a real bummer to have the race that I’ve been training for the past 3 months cancelled but I have so much respect for the race directors that in all 

Valentine’s Weekend

Valentine’s Weekend

Love was in the air this weekend!  Along with snow, lots and lots of snow… He looks surprisingly happy standing in the middle of waist high snow, huh?  I kicked off Valentine’s morning by sneaking off with some girlfriends for an early morning run and letting Henri