Happy Thanksgiving! I hope those of you that celebrate the holiday had a wonderful long weekend. (If you only check in here for the weekly recap, be sure to check out the final recap post of our recent trip to Norway: "Fits on the Road in Flåm and Oslo!") My holiday weekend coincided with a cutback week in mileage for training for the Houston Marathon (my 30th full at the end of January!) It Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 9 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
It's Sunday and weekly recap time! If you only check in on Sundays, be sure to read this review from earlier this week of the SPIBeam hat. It's a great product! I am nine weeks out from the Houston Marathon. Here's how training (and life!) went this past week: Monday: 9 miles on the treadmill in the evening. I had hoped to do this run before work, but without combining it into a run Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 11 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Happy Sunday friends! If you only check in for the weekly recap, please check out these two posts from earlier this week: Guest Post: My First Ironman <-- inspiring guest post from my friend Paige, who is a full-time working mom who crushed her first Ironman! Fits on the Road in Norway: Lofthus & Solstrand <-- another travel post about my recent trip to Norway! Now onto my Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 19 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Hello there! I'm a day late with my weekly recap, but that's because I just returned from a long weekend in Georgia. We were in Jekyll Island for a wedding Friday/Saturday, and then spent Sunday exploring Savannah. It was a great trip! I will post a "Fits on the Road" post soon sharing our travels! The purpose of this post is to share how my training went this week. If you're new here, I broke Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 20 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
I hope you're all having a lovely weekend (hopefully a long one at that, if you get tomorrow off for the Labor Day holiday here in the US!) I'm here with my weekly recap, where I've been recapping my recovery from a broken tibia/fibula and building back to marathon shape in time to hopefully run my 30th marathon in Houston next January! Here's how training went this week: Monday: Non-running Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 21 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Remember when I used to post here 3-4 times a week? I miss those days! Now I'm happy to just get my weekly recap out. Honestly, it's just harder in the summer to stay inside to write at the computer. I should try to write ALL my posts in the winter and just post them throughout the summer! Well, at least I'm still checking in here once a week with my weekly recap of recovery from my broken Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 23 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Another week, another weekly recap! If you're new here, I'm building back to marathon shape after 5 months off due to a broken tibia and fibula, with hopes of running my 30th marathon in Houston, Texas next January (followed by a 'redo' of the Antarctica marathon & trip in March that I missed this year due to my injury and ensuing surgery!) Here's how this past week went in fitness! Monday: Continue Reading