Not sure where you live but Winter Storm Boreas – if you follow weather, you may have noticed last winter The Weather Channel began naming winter storms – is giving upstate NY an early taste of winter. How early you may ask? Well, we have had snow earlier than this but not the bitter cold… Continue reading Winter Has Arrived
This post is going to be a little bit of this and that, including a winner for my #runBlueRidge contest. I took out all the chit chat in the comments of my giveaway and counted up the comments. I then put the number in a random number generator and got number 13 as the winner.… Continue reading Monday Coffee
Grab a warm beverage. I truly recommend cocoa or herbal tea today as it is cold, January type of cold, here in Upstate NY. This will probably be long. I took a Greyhound bus, actually two, to Richmond so was without a car. At first, I didn’t think that was going to be a problem… Continue reading Richmond Marathon – Recapping Race Day
Grab a warm beverage, especially if you live near me in the northeast, as this recap will be long. I have spent the last week trying to figure how/why the wheels came off last Saturday in Richmond. Last year, the week after the Richmond Marathon had taken place, I told my sister that I would… Continue reading Richmond Marathon – Race Recap Friday Expo
People said I was crazy last year when I said I was heading to Roanoke, Virginia to run the Blue Ridge Marathon. Who thinks it’s a good idea to run a marathon that owns – and proudly so – the title “America’s Toughest Road Race?” I do and I loved it so much I’m going… Continue reading Come #runBlueRidge
With the passing of October comes the holidays and only two months left in 2013. November also brings my fall marathon. Busy month but not so busy that I am not going to look back on how I did in October. I am still holding out on race 13 even though September’s Ragnar was an… Continue reading October Review
When I first saw this recipe on Facebook, I was positive I was going to try it. And for once in my life, I was not going to alter a recipe. I was going to make this just as the recipe said. Well … yesterday the high managed to eek out at 34F and I… Continue reading Lentil Soup with Quinoa and Tomato
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