Women’s Distance Festival (2018)
July 12th, 2018 Elizabeth and I have been doing this race for a long while – since she was a little girl. It was fun to see so many little girls and their...
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Gorges Half Marathon 2018
June 16, 2018 Excuses I had big plans to train properly for this. I really planned to sign up for the Rochester Marathon on my Mom’s birthday in September...
First Swim of 2018 CLT Training
Back in the pool I had hoped to get into the pool long before this but things have been so busy with school and Emoticakes that I didn’t activate the one...
How I came to love Bikram Yoga
My experiences with yoga have been varied and inconsistent until this year. When my kids were younger I organized a yoga class for a bunch of stay at home moms,...
Skunk Cabbage Half Marathon 2018
April 8, 2018 Background This race is usually a big social event for my family. Scott always races it and I always run for fun with friends. I don’t think...
Training & Repeats
My grand winter training plan hasn’t gone as smoothly as I would like to have had it be. I knew it would happen. We had some trips planned, the winter was...
MITHACAL Miles Week #6
As with every week, Adam sent out an email with the workout early in the day. Scott gets these in his inbox and forwards them to me and I don’t open it un...
MITHACAL Miles Week #5
After running the Hartshorne Masters mile on Sunday we’d all be training together again on Tuesday. For week 4, some of the group members did a fast progr...
Winter Training Week #4
This week was a light week for running and really for exercise of any kind. It is challenging with daylight, cold and rain and just the crazy schedule I’v...
Hartshorne Masters Mile
Scott and I have been training for the past month through a local program sponsored by the Finger Lakes Runner’s Club called the MITHACAL Milers. The enti...