A journey through motherhood, running, and life.
Don’t forget to enter the Garmin Forerunner 10 Giveaway! I saw a tweet last week from a new dad saying he was happy to be getting back on track with running post-baby. My first thought was along the lines of Post-Baby? You didn’t just have a baby!! But after letting his words sink in for a [...]
I received a phone call from one of my good friends at NYRR – she was someone I had met during the Foot Locker 5 Borough Challenge journey and have remained in close contact with her. She wanted to know if I would be interested in being filmed for an On the Run episode – an online [...]
Don’t forget to enter my Motivational Sign Giveaway!! After my first week of swimming for Ironman training (coupled with marathon training), I realized I needed to make some major changes with my daily routine. One area I knew I needed to focus on was my family’s meals – especially dinner. They had become boring, sometimes [...]
I decided to do my long run on Friday this week – we had a bunch of things we had planned for the weekend and I didn’t want to dedicate 2.5+ hours Saturday or Sunday morning to a long run. Some weeks I can totally pysch myself up to run in the freezing cold. Other [...]
Yesterday’s workout – last hard run before Saturday’s 10k: 1 mile warmup: 8:41 pace 5k tempo: 6:40 pace (20:43) 1/2 mile cooldown: 8:17 pace I wanted to do a 5k today to practice running on tired legs to replicate what the second half of the 10k on Saturday will feel like. My legs were definitely [...]
Mondays Workout: Rest Day – Giving my legs an extra rest day this week since I have a BIG 10k this weekend (more details later this week)! Fact: I am a competitive person with just about everything in life (sometimes over the silliest things). Like last weekend: My husband and I were putting together Thomas puzzles [...]
I’m still on cloud 9 from this morning’s workout. As I’ve mentioned (repeatedly) on here before, I’m aiming for a sub-42 10k in a few weeks in order to apply for the Saucony Hurricane Team. I woke up this morning with the desire to do a tempo run instead of my planned hill workout. I [...]
My husband bought me the cutest kids book a few months after our oldest son was born in 2011 – Pellie Runs a Marathon (by Michele Bredice Craemer): One of the things I am MOST grateful to my parents is my exposure to sports from a young age. They didn’t force a sport on my [...]
Good Morning, friends! This post is going to be short and I likely won’t be blogging for a few days due to Hurricane Sandy. These are the evacuation zones for my hometown, Staten Island. There is currently a mandatory evacuation in place for residents living in zone A. We are just outside zone A (the red [...]
The Runner’s World 10k was my first “race” post-baby. I wasn’t completely racing it as I am still trying to be patient with my return and not over-exert my body before it’s ready…but I certainly pushed myself harder than I have in 10 months! Although the course description and profile didn’t sound or look too hilly, it [...]
*Note: I shamelessly am using the term domesticator after seeing it on my friend, Lindsay’s, blog last week. If you aren’t reading her blog, you NEED to!! About a month ago, I ran into a college classmate who I hadn’t seen since our 2003 graduation. We chatted for a while about random things before the topic [...]
Happy THREE weeks to my little guy!! I’m amazed at how fast the time has gone and how I already can’t imagine life with my two little ones. While there are definitely some aspects of life that are more difficult now, I am amazed at how relatively seamless the transition is/was. These are some of the [...]
Baby #2 will be making his/her arrival any day now and I’m excited, ecstatic, and anxious for my son to have a sibling. Both my husband and I come from families of multiple children and we always knew we wanted the same. He will forever have a playmate and friend. BUT, there is this feeling that [...]
After four years at West Point and over six years serving on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Army, I have seen my share of death. The number of friends, classmates, and coworkers that have been casualties of the war on terror is too high for me to begin to count. I think [...]
Thank you to everyone for your positive comments, advice, and support on Wednesday’s post. I’m happy to report that yesterday was a better day. I was more mobile and not in excruciating pain. Today is even better. I also have an ortho appointment for first thing Saturday morning (two hours after we land). Fingers are [...]
When my husband and I began our house hunting, we were focused on Central Jersey. We wanted a big house with lots of land. After 12+ years of living away from home, I was willing to sacrifice proximity to my family to have the house of my dreams. Last spring, my mom’s wonderfully generous cousins [...]
I am amazed at how packed our weekends seem to get in the blink of an eye! I have all these little jobs around the house for my husband to do (that I can’t do b/c I’m a) not handy and/or b) are almost 6 months pregnant) on the weekends, but lately our weekends have [...]
Good Morning!!! I typically don’t post a ton about parenting because I try to keep this blog to running-related topics, but since my son’s sleep habits were affecting my running, I have decided to talk about it. Little background on my son: 17 months old Sleeping through the night since an early age We are [...]
I started off the busy weekend bright and early in NYC with 6,000+ other females running the NYRR Mini 10k in Central Park. It was a humid, muggy morning and I was thankful that it stayed overcast for the race otherwise it would have been uncomfortable. I had no expectations going into this race. Not wearing [...]
Earlier in the year, I read a post from one of my favorite bloggers, Carla from MizFitOnline. For a few weeks after reading her awesome post, I saw tweets and FB updates from her with the phrase “Living my priorities”. I loved what she was doing, but at the time, didn’t really connect it to anything [...]
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