photo credit If you were in town for Memorial Day, I hope you had a chance to visit one of  the 5 food trucks. The Food Network was in town filming a segment for their wildly popular show, The Great…

I’m slowly building base miles after the week of IT band torture. This was the last week of school and that means some stress miles happened. I still don’t have a hard and fast training plan or race scheduled. Until I…

No favorites today. This is a reflection post on the last day of school and start of summer for us. Just like the first day of teacher training in August, my friends I teach with in Kindergarten met up at City…

And it smells like bacon. Gifts from friends that are fellow teachers are always on point. Today was the last day with kiddos. They left at lunch and the faculty ate together in blessed silence or adult conversation. The last week…

How’s that for a morning wake-up call? They were slow, but I enjoy slow quiet runs in the morning. On some days, I am worse that that 2 year old. I morph straight into Traumatic 3’s. It’s been almost a whole…

This was a much better week! Last week, I had to deal with some IT band issues and cranky hip. Things seemed to have settled down and I got in a few more miles this week. Each run was slow and…

I have been waiting for a Saturday like this to come around. One of those Saturdays when I do not have any plans and can catch up on sleep. It has been a long sad week and sleep has been fleeting….

4 miles. That’s ALL I got this week. I took Monday off to rest up and when I ran Tuesday morning, my IT band seized up bad. It’s been years since I felt this kind of IT pain. I knew from…

After seeing all the running posts in social media in the past few weeks due to the Boston Marathon, you’ve decided to dig out some shoes and take up running. GREAT! You throw on some shorts and grab your phone and…

It was a pretty good week! I’m still extremely upset that I had to miss the Rock’n’Roll Nashville half marathon. I was in shape for it and I love that city for racing. So now what? I’m meandering around checking out…