Running It Off

Category: Life

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Update on my Swollen Hands

    Last week was a bit scary for me. On the Friday before the Race the Runways Half Marathon, we had a big snowstorm. Huge, heavy flakes fell rapidly and accumulate to what I would guess to be about 5 inches on our driveway. I was working from home that day, so I pulled out the…

  • The Vacation Hangover Cure

    My first week on the Slow Carb diet (aka The 4 Hour Body) went extremely well. I lost 2.4 pounds in the first week of the eating plan. Then I went on vacation. I spent all of last week near Cancun, Mexico at an all-inclusive resort. I thought about waiting to start the Slow Carb…

  • Day 365 | Looking Back and Looking Forward

    Day 365 | Looking Back and Looking Forward

    Goals. I like to take time on the last day of the year to reflect on what I’ve accomplished and to set goals for the upcoming year.  I feel very strongly that goals work if you set them and don’t forget them.  This year I feel very good about what I was able to do,…

  • Day 352 | Writers Block and Running Block

    Day 352 | Writers Block and Running Block

    A couple of weeks ago, I told my friends and family on facebook about this website.  Up until that point, I had been writing this rather anonymously and really didn’t want anyone I knew to read it (except my husband).    But I made up my mind that I was going to be brave, and…

  • Day 273 | HCG Keeps on Rising

    Quick post today. I’m in a wedding this weekend so my time is not my own right now. I did get a call from my doctor this evening and my HCG level went up again this week. Not by a lot, but it is up to 12,900. My doctor gave me all the options but…

  • Day 261 | Achieving the Goal

    Day 261 | Achieving the Goal

    Today was the day. The half-marathon. I set this goal at the beginning of the year. I had no idea when I set that goal that I was going to have any other obstacles in my way other than have to train my body to be able to run 13.1 miles. What I didn’t expect…

  • Day 260 | Disturbing News the Day Before the Race

    A few minutes after I arrived at work this morning, I got a phone call from my doctors office. I had taken a follow up blood test on Wednesday and told them not to expedite the results (because I have to pay for the extra costs) since I knew what the results were going to…