Author: Laura

  • 11 Miles Before the Storm

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Race Report: Beach to Beacon 10K

    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 […]

  • Assessing the Damage of Time Off

    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 […]

  • Friday Long Run – 8 miles

    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. […]

  • 3 in a Row

    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 […]

  • A Post About Running

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Wasting Time

    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 […]

  • 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 […]