Balancing the Urge to Run

The road back from an injury can be a long winding one, full of ups and downs and twists and turns.  I find as you travel along this road your greatest companions are determination, belief and patience. You must have the determination to do the … [Continue reading]

Runfessions – January edition

It's that time again...last Friday of the month so I'm joining Marcia again for another edition of Runfessions - a chance to cleanse your sweaty soul!   Runfession #1 -- Cherry Blossom training was suppose to begin this week... but … [Continue reading]

My 2015 Race Calendar

After reflecting back on lessons learned from a not so great race, it seems like the perfect time to look ahead to this year's race calendar. Ah the race calendar...so many races to consider. If only there were infinite time and funds! So here's … [Continue reading]

Lessons from My Worst Race

Erika, Patty and April posed an interesting question for today's Tuesday on the Run topic: What was your worst race? Worst kind be defined a lot of different ways - missed goals? horrible weather?  injury? DNF? For me the race came to mind … [Continue reading]

Friday Five – Lovin’/Not Lovin’

Happy Friday everyone!! Linking up once again with Mar, Courtney & Cynthia -- the theme this week is "Things about me." Since I just shared a day in my life a couple of days ago, I thought I'd take a little liberty with this theme and share a … [Continue reading]

A Day in the Life

I always enjoy sneaking a peak into how others manage their day...maybe because it helps me to feel less crazy ;) So when Katie suggested doing a Day in the Life link-up I couldn't resist playing along. I must admit that since the holidays, I have … [Continue reading]

Friday Five – What’s in my gym bag

Happy Friday! This has been a loooong week and I'm so happy to see Friday come! I’m linking up once again with Courtney, Mar and Cynthia for the Friday Five. Today's topic "What’s in your gym bag?" couldn't be more appropriate since I've been … [Continue reading]

#NoExcuses Challenge

To help get the year off to the right start, I joined my fellow Sweat Pink Ambassadors for the #NoExcuses Challenge. The challenge is simple - to commit to moving every day in the month of January and share what you do via social media. There are … [Continue reading]

The Power of a Single Word

Can a single word make a difference? Can it set the tone?....provide focus? ....serve as a reminder? I believe it can...or at least I'm prepared to find out. Around this time last year, I started reading a good deal about the practice of … [Continue reading]

2015 Running Goals

I've been sitting with this post for a bit...perhaps a little gun-shy to put it down in print after coming up short last year ... or just needed a little more time to marinate. But as I said in my Year of Running post, having had a challenging … [Continue reading]