A journey through motherhood, running, and life.
Good Morning! The winner of the Garmin Forerunner 10 Giveaway is Gabrielle Mareaviva: You have one week to email nycrunningmama@gmail.com to claim your prize before a subsequent winner is selected! Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway! Check back next week for another review/giveaway =) Also, check out the new colors that Garmin [...]
I am a Garmin lover. I purchased my first Garmin in 2002 when I ran my first marathon. I have no idea what model it was – all I remember is that it was huge and covered half of my wrist! My second was a Christmas gift from my sisters before I deployed to Iraq [...]
I apologize for not posting this earlier!! With the craziness of race week, I completely forgot! The winner of the PRO Compression is: Lauren @ The Unlikely Runners!! Congratulations, Lauren! Please email me at nycrunningmama@gmail.com! Thanks to everyone who participated and stay tuned for another running gear giveaway (hopefully next week)!! Ways to Follow NYC Running [...]
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Ava & Liam Motivational Sign Giveaway. The winner is: Jenelle!! If you didn’t win, Ava & Liam is offering $5 off ANY order of $25 or more when you use the code “NYCRunningMama” at checkout. All products can be found here! Ways to follow Ava & Liam: [...]
As I discussed yesterday, I am LOVING PRO Compression socks lately (and as evidenced by my IG feed). They have been my go-to recovery method post-long and speed days and have helped me build up my mileage and intensity during my marathon and Ironman training. On top of the functionality of the socks, they are [...]
Happy Tuesday!! I am BEYOND excited to share this giveaway with you today! I am a visual person. Seeing things – words, numbers, whatever – helps me focus and stay on track. Which is why I LOVE these motivational signs created by Ava & Liam. Ava & Liam is a small business that makes gifts and home [...]
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 [...]
I was honored to be a member of PowerBar‘s Team Elite this past year and had the opportunity to try a ton of their products. PowerBar is going to give away some of my favorite products to two readers - just in time to kick off the new year and spring marathon training! Energy Gels: Since my very [...]
I decided to break the Race for Recovery down by the numbers – I’ve seen this method used several times recently in blog posts and really love the style! Don’t forget to check out photos of all the runners who participated! I just want to say THANK YOU one last time to everyone who supported [...]
The Race for Recovery raised $10,795!! Thank you to everyone who donated, ran, and/or helped spread the word of this event!! My phone was buzzing NONSTOP on Saturday with tweets, emails, Instagram notifications, and FB posts containing results and pictures. There were countless times when I just looked at my husband, showed him my phone, [...]
Mustela is the #1 Baby Care and Stretch Marks Brand in Europe and just began selling their line of products, including the 9 Months and Bebe lines, in Duane Reade stores across the United States. Mustela focuses on selecting only the most natural ingredients to use in their products – any questionable ones such as parabens, [...]
I apologize for not announcing the winner of the Gone for a Run giveaway sooner! The last few weeks have been a bit hectic. The randomly selected winner is: Katie from Mom’s Little Running Buddy! Please email me at nycrunningmama@gmail.com. You have one week to contact me to claim your prize before a subsequent winner is [...]
After watching my Facebook page fill with status updates and photos of my fellow Staten Islanders as well as friends in NYC helping those affected by Hurricane Sandy last week, I knew that I needed to find a way to help. Logistically, it’s difficult for me to physically help – having an (almost) 2 year [...]
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 [...]
Despite moving into our house over four months ago, my husband and I just recently started to focus our attention on decluttering and setting up our basement. We now have a quasi home-gym in one section (with a TV, treadmill, trainers, and a few other pieces of workout gear). This is realistically going to be where [...]
First, I just want to say thank you so much for everyone’s supportive and encouraging comments, tweets, and messages regarding yesterday’s post. It was really great to hear about all of your experiences dealing with similar frustrations with returning to running (especially those returning postpartum). I’ve heard so many stories about females becoming faster after [...]
Happy Monday, friends!! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I enjoyed an 8 mile run (longest run post baby to date!) and lots of Ironman Kona watching on Saturday followed by a relaxing rest day on Sunday. I was SO tempted to run more than 8 miles. The perfect running weather, my feeling stronger [...]
When my mom was pregnant with my youngest sister, my other two sisters and I had so much fun guessing everything from the date she would be born, to the sex, to her height and weight…it made the birth a little bit more exciting (and interesting since we were are competitive with each other). We’ve [...]
I was extremely excited and honored to be chosen for the Sparkly Soul Coach of the Month for June - and realized that with moving and pregnancy, I forgot to mention it when it was first announced on the Sparkly Soul blog almost a month ago! Thank you, Sparkly Soul, for picking me =) If you’ve been following [...]
Hey friends - I apologize for not posting this earlier!! Thank you to everyone who participated. I loved reading about all of the brilliant runs that you have experienced! The winner is Megan D! Megan – please email me at nycrunningmama@gmail.com ASAP so we can get you into the Mezamashii Project!! If you do not [...]
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