Tales and Tips from a Running Mom
As a stay at home mom/running mom, there are 2 very important pieces of equipment that I need to keep running: my jogging stroller and my treadmill. If you’re better than me, then all you need is an alarm clock to wake up and get moving before your kids and spouse wake up. For me, [Read On]
If riding a bike is like running and pushing 30lbs of toddler. I haven’t run with Zain in the jogging stroller since before the Iron Girl Half Marathon. Between having to take time off to let my foot/ankle heal and then making a slow return to running, I’ve been avoiding the extra resistance on my [Read On]
As a runner, I pay far more attention to the weather than those times in my life when I was a non-runner. I obsess over the hourly forecast, the percentage chance of precipitation, wind chill, humidity, and other details that can affect how I dress for my run and how I expect to feel during [Read On]
For Easter, I made one of my favorite desserts that I get in Paris – les tartes aux fruit (fruit tarts, in case you can’t figure that out). My tarts are pretty flippin’ awesome, I must say. The crust is sweet and crunchy. The crème pâtissière is like heaven. And the fruit makes you feel a [Read On]
On Tuesday, as I was huffing and puffing through the first 2 miles of my 6 mile stroller run, a thought kept running through my mind – I really wish I didn’t care so much about my pace. My comfortable pace is a 10 minute mile, but I don’t want to run a 10 minute [Read On]
Saturday morning, I was all dressed and set to head out the door for my 15 mile run. While chatting with hubby, he suggested that maybe I could wait until Sunday for my long run and run with him. I knew 15 miles with the stroller would be tough, but our training schedules (he’s training [Read On]
My week started off with a fantastic run on Monday. Wednesday’s run was less than stellar. I did a short 3 mile run with Zain in the stroller that might as well have been a 20 mile run because I struggled for every mile. Yesterday, I had another awesome run to balance it out. I [Read On]
For the past week, I feel like I’ve been chained to my treadmill. I’m trying my best to embrace the treadmill instead of detesting it. It’s giving my knee a little bit of a break from the hard surfaces outside and it allows me to focus on my form which is hard to do when [Read On]
does not work for everyone. Instead of my usual cup of coffee (more accurately my shot of espresso since that is my usual pre-long run source of energy) before my run this morning, I tried an energy shot (Street King from GNC) that a fellow running blogger recommended. It says it has the caffeine equivalent [Read On]
When it’s cold outside, it takes me a mile, sometimes a mile and half to feel comfortable with the chill in the air. I spend that first mile wondering if I dressed appropriately or if maybe I’d be better off going home and getting on the treadmill. I know that the treadmill is not a [Read On]
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