Disclaimer: I received VegaSport Electrolyte Hydrator in exchange for my honest review as part of the Fuel Your Better campaign by VegaSport and Fit Approach. All opinions are my own. I don’t know about you but training for a longer distance race, half marathon or longer, is as much about training for fueling during the race as it is… Continue reading #FuelYourBetter
What an amazing journey! Have you ever sat on a bike for more than an hour? I know that I could not ride the distances that Brian and Rachel did in this book. More important than the fitness necessary for the journey are the life lessons that are learned throughout Going Somewhere. Brian had to… Continue reading Going Somewhere – Book Review
I have so many things on my plate these days that the blog seems to slip right through my hands. Today I would love to take the chance to introduce you to a couple of friends of mine. Both are available for speaking engagements and one is available for running clinics. Please look at where… Continue reading Do You Need a Speaker?
I know a lot of my local races are small and do only a packet pickup. Actually most of them do bib pickup prior to the race. A larger local one, run by the local runners’ club, did do a day before pickup this year at a local establishment. I would wager a bet, though,… Continue reading Expo versus Packet Pickup
The Greater Binghamton Bridge Run has been in existence for four years. It is basically my hometown race. I had never run it until yesterday. The first year I was injured with a hamstring strain. The second and third years I was in Pittsburgh running either the full (2012) or the half (2013). 2014 is… Continue reading Greater Binghamton Bridge Run – A Race Recap
Dee Williams takes a life changing moment and makes it a new part of her life in her memoir The Big Tiny. While the book is ostensibly about Williams and her building of a tiny house, so many other parts of the book resonated with me and I have little or no desire to live… Continue reading The Big Tiny – A Book Review
Wow! Seems every weekend in Roanoke is better. Now to find a job there and move. Other than loving the area, I am sitting here today, on the third day after this half, and still a bit sore from it. There are not words to describe the fun in running this race, the fun in… Continue reading Blue Ridge Half Marathon – A Recap
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