The Right Fits

Happy Sunday! It's weekly recap time. My next marathon will be Vienna, which is not until April, so this is a bit more of a base training period. Here's how this week went in fitness (and life in London as an American!) Monday: Rest from running after the 10k the day before. I completed day 9 of the Caroline Girvan Iron Strength program on YouTube after work, which was a full-body Continue Reading

Hello! I'm back with a weekly recap of training. My next marathon will be Vienna (Austria) on April 23 (same as the London marathon). The Vienna marathon is 20 weeks away- a bit too far to say I'm "marathon training" already. Instead, I'll consider this period my off-season, with running (of course) and a bit more strength training. I hope to do some shorter distance racing between now and Continue Reading

Last weekend, Dustin and I visited Budapest for 3 nights. Here is a summary of our trip! We arrived Thursday late afternoon from London. The first thing on our itinerary was a river cruise on the Danube, but it didn't start until 7 pm, so we headed out to explore a bit beforehand. We saw the Shoes on the Danube memorial (read more here), St. Stephen's Basilica, some Christmas markets, and Continue Reading

On Sunday, November 6, I ran the Porto Marathon in Porto, Portugal. This was a back-up marathon after testing positive for Covid two weeks prior, when I was meant to run the Amsterdam marathon. (Here's a recap of my return to running after Covid.) Porto was my 40th full marathon and my first since moving to London at the end of July. My first European marathon as a European resident! For a Continue Reading

If you missed it, (catch up HERE) I was unable to run the Amsterdam marathon because I tested positive for Covid two days before the race, the day of my flight from London to Amsterdam. I had trained (and recapped my training on this blog) for 15 weeks and was excited and ready to race. I was disappointed in the timing of catching Covid. I avoided it for the whole pandemic, so it was Continue Reading

I guess this isn't technically "Fits on the Road" since I'm living in London vs. visiting, but I thought it would be valuable to share the itinerary from my recent visitors here for anyone's future visit to London! This was a fall (October) visit; my sister Laurie, her husband, his sister, and her husband all visited us from the U.S. Some of them had been to London before, but if so, it had Continue Reading

Oh boy...where to even start? I guess that I'll dive into the weekly recap and bury the lede a bit. Maybe this will be the "most skimmed post" ever as people will wonder what the punchline is and head right to the end! This situation isn't quite as dramatic as when I BROKE MY LEG THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE ANTARCTICA MARATHON (!!!), but it's still a bummer...(That event set the bar high for Continue Reading