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Continue reading →: Girls’ Weekend – LCBS Retreat
This weekend, I spent a few nights away from the family. My Ladies Craft Beer Society got together for a mini-getaway to celebrate our fifth anniversary. Friday night we all got in at different times and proceeded to eat, drink (beer and bubbly!) and catch up. It’d been while since…
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Continue reading →: Cleveland Half Marathon Training: Week One
Week one of Cleveland half marathon training is done! I’ll be honest, while I pretty much was able to follow the plan, it wasn’t my best week ever. I was still feeling under the weather and then Fri/Sat came down with an eye infection (yay!) so overall haven’t been myself lately. But…
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Continue reading →: Cleveland Half Marathon Training Starts Now!
Well, the time has come – Cleveland half marathon training is here! At the beginning of the year, it seemed like I had so much time to kill and that it wouldn’t be training time any time soon. But suddenly, it’s here. Of course I’m getting over a cold, so…
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Continue reading →: Running, Reading and Eating — What We’ve Been Up To Lately
If I had to sum up my life lately, it’d be as follows: running, working, eating, (somewhat) sleeping. And then do it all over again. Yup, that’s pretty much what we’ve been up to lately. But in case you want to see some pictures, here you go: I recently finished…
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Continue reading →: Valentine’s Week Runs and Sick Again
Happy Valentine’s Week! It was a nice week here, minus a few of us (me and LM) being sick. I just had a cold, but LM had a double ear infection. She’s on meds now and hopefully gets better soon. The week included some fun, including a visit to FW’s…
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Continue reading →: Another Winter Weekend: One Sentence Per Photo
It was another weekend at home in Cleveland. ‘Burb life with two kids in the winter is definitely something to get used to, but I think we’re in a groove with finding things to do, being productive and having fun. Here’s a look at our weekend, one-sentence-per-photo style. FW helped…
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Continue reading →: Running While Sick
Runners are a rare breed. We don’t like to take days off unless we need to. And this week, I had a cold and though I was feeling cruddy, really didn’t want to take off. I find that as long as it’s not a bad cold and mostly in my…
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Continue reading →: Surviving the Polar Vortex
We did it! We survived our week of COLD. Was it easy? No. Do I want to do it again anytime soon? No no no no no! But we survived, and here’s how. Living in the Midwest right now and growing up in the Northeast, I’m used to cold winters.…
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Continue reading →: A Week of Indoor Runs
Last week was COLD. And by COLD I mean negative degrees as the HIGH. Check out this forecast: So what did that mean for my training for the Cleveland Half Marathon? It meant that my treadmill was my best friend. Here’s how the week looked: Sunday I kicked off the week…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating My Birthday with Food and Running
I’m still feeling the love from having a really great birthday week this past week. It was a week of good (and too much!) food, friends and even some runs. I felt the love from so many friends and family who reached out or whom I saw and made me…




