For pretty much the past week I have been fighting off an annoying cold. Last Sunday night my throat started to hurt, and was the worst for most of the day on Monday. (Just in time to give 3 presentations!) Since then it's sort of lingered, never really becoming a full cold but just enough to make me more tired and make working out a little more difficult. Luckily it was a short work week, but those three days ... Read the Post...
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Thanksgiving Weekend Runfessions
I hope that all of you who celebrated Thanksgiving weekend had a great day with lots of good food! It's so nice to have a Friday off from work to recover from all the eating, right? Now that Thanksgiving is over, it's time to start thinking about the holidays. Not sure how that's possible. Last time I checked it was April. I'm sure none of us are up for anything too serious today, so how about some Runfessions being ... Read the Post...
I Didn’t Run a Marathon This Weekend
I'm sure you already knew I didn't run a marathon this weekend, but the weekend before Thanksgiving has seemed to be a "race weekend" for me since my first marathon in 2011. It hit me the other day that other than 2012 (when I had just gotten married) I always race the weekend before Thanksgiving. Even this year I was signed up for the Annapolis Running Classic Half Marathon. I wasn't ready for it and didn't want to risk ... Read the Post...
5 Great Recipes from Run Fast, Eat Slow
Last month for my birthday my sister gave me a copy of the cookbook "Run Fast, Eat Slow" by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky. I was excited to try out some new recipes over the past few weeks, and I have already found a few that I love and plan to keep in my regular meal-planning rotation. It's really nice to have an actual cookbook rather than looking up recipes on my phone! (While that is really convenient, those ... Read the Post...