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Lessons Learned While Training for a Marathon

Three weeks from today, baring any freak injury (knock on wood) I will have run a marathon!  Yesterday I completed my last 20 mile run and now it’s time to reduce my mileage, get nervous excited, and research yelp to figure out where to get my pre-race carbs. Yesterday’s run was significantly less...

18 Miles!

Once, when I was about 13, I was watching morning television on a day off and looking for something to do.  I don’t know what possessed the idea, but somehow I decided I wanted to go for a run.  By the time Barbara Walters was telling me to “Take Time to Enjoy the...

Roasted Eggplant, Pumpkin, and Red Lentil Soup

Christmas is coming and in two days I’ll be on my way home to New York, blasting Holiday music in my car and pretending I can sing like Maria Carey.  I have over a week off and that means spending time with my family, running in the daylight, trying out...

Top 5 Reasons To Run In the Winter

Went for a 6 mile run after work last night.  Here’s what made it wonderful: 5.  My favorite winter gear 4. Christmas Music on my Ipod 3. Christmas Lights in the Park  2. Feeling like a badass for running in the cold 1. Coming home to this and these: What...

A Marathon, an Almost Marathon, and a Mistake (Part II)

Told you I’d be back!  The lentil soup was delish (thank you for asking).  Now where were we? Ok, so last we spoke, I had a busted ankle and a major lapse in judgement and as it turns out, denial does not, in fact, solve problems. After some internet research and...

A Marathon, an Almost Marathon, and a Mistake

Hello readers!  And by readers, I mean roommates, who are probably only here because I’m bribing them with promises of baked goods.  Well, just in case there are a few more of you out there, I thought I’d start by talking about one of my favorite topics… ME!!!  Running!!! If you’ve...