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11 Miles Before the Storm
We’re getting a hurricane (Irene) on Sunday so I knew if I wanted to run long this weekend if was going to have to be on Friday afternoon. It was a beautiful, sunny day; about 80 degrees with a bit of humidity and stickiness in the air. I planned on running 10 miles (but ended…
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3 Miles on Matinicus Island
We went on vacation last week to the beautiful island of Matinicus. We had friends of ours from Chicago come and stay with us. A wonderful couple with children about the same ages as ours. It was a week of beach days and relaxed meals. I love to travel and once of my favorite things…
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Race Report: Beach to Beacon 10K
Every year the Beach to Beacon 10K gets more and more popular. This year the entries sold out online in 8 minutes. I was lucky enough to snag one of them, along with my husband, sister-in-law, father-in-law and several friends. We all ran the last two years as well, so this is starting to become…
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Assessing the Damage of Time Off
I’m trying really hard to not beat myself up for taking time off from running and eating mindfully in order to focus on a few short term/high stress projects in my life. Between May 1 and July 15 of this year we renovated our kitchen, staged and sold our house and moved. It goes without…
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Friday Long Run – 8 miles
It was an overcast 72 degrees today so the runner in me said “perfect, I’m gonna run long”. My employer encourages half days on Fridays in the summer so I changed my clothes and headed out for a run right from the office around 12:30. I headed up the Casco Bay bridge…and my Garmin died.…
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3 in a Row
I feel like I’m now officially back in the swing of things. I ran 7 miles on Sunday. Yesterday (Monday), I went to a Boot Camp class at my local YMCA. And today, I ran 3 miles at lunch time. It wasn’t a pretty run. It wasn’t quick. I didn’t feel like my legs had…
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A Post About Running
We moved two weeks ago and have finally (mostly) unpacked. This week New England had a pretty crazy streak of hot days so I delayed my triumphant return to running for a few days longer than I would have liked. The heat finally broke a bit today and it was only in the low 80s…
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Our New Life is Just Ahead
A month has gone by since my last post. That is inexcusable. Now I will proceed to make excuses…or at least try to explain. Until today, I hadn’t run in a month. It’s hard to write about running when you’re not actually running. The last time I ran, June 4th, I ran 3 miles and…
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Wasting Time
I apologize for the lack of posts for the last month or so. I don’t know why I stopped writing. I have been thinking about it a lot lately and I still haven’t figured out why I completely stopped writing. I haven’t posted here, I haven’t posted to forums that I’ve been active in, I…
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Slow Carb Diet Progress – 8 weeks
Well, I’ve been following Tim Ferriss’ Slow Carb Diet for 8 weeks now and I’m very happy with how things are going. I have lost a total of 12.6 pounds and 11.5 total inches. Although I’ve had my up weeks and down weeks, the thing I’m most pleased with is my weekly average. I’m losing…