Today was the 114th running of the Boston Marathon! I’m so grateful to live in Boston, 5 minutes from the finish line.  The city was crowded with runners, spectators, crazy college kids, and more.  The atmosphere was electric.  You could really feel the energy and excitement everywhere! Becky came back to Boston, and brought my [...]

I was glad I live SO close to the starting line of this morning’s Boston Athletic Association 5K.  The race started at 8 am and we didn’t have to make our wake to the starting line until 7:40 am. Getting my Garmin set and ready for the race!  And rockin my new Bondi Band.  The [...]

My cousin Becky is visiting!  She’ staying over tonight and running the BAA 5K in the morning. We walked the the Sports and Fitness Expo to pick up our race numbers. Registration and t-shirt pick up! Odwalla samples, and a fun employee who wanted to be featured on the blog. Mmm, loved the Odwalla smoothie [...]

I was too tired and sore to join Jared and friends at the SEAC’s Thursday Night Run Club.  But I still wanted to check out the workout in preparation for next week’s meetup. So while everyone else did hills, sprints, and other drills, I took the dog on a photography tour around the Gardens and [...]

Last night I carbo loaded for the 10 mile I had planned for this morning.  Penne with olive oil, broccoli, and corn. I packed the car with 2 bags of laundry, winter clothes, the corgi, and the boyfriend and made the evening drive to my parents’ house in southern MA. My pre-run fuel was an [...]

translates to the Race of Ireland and the USA Though after this morning’s run, I’m pretending it translates to the Race in Torrential Race and Minor Flooding! Pre-race = warm, dry, Irish for the day Somehow Jared and I ended up taking too long to get ready and were running really late.  We missed the [...]

I had the longest staff meeting this morning/afternoon and ended up eating 2 slices of pizza that my boss provided for the crew.  So my half-ass version of Ants on a Log was a healthy afternoon snack after a greasy lunch. I didn’t have a lot of time for a “lunch break” so I quickly [...]

Someone ate the last container of yogurt…  So running late as usual, my only option was the grab a packet of instant oatmeal and scoot out the door.  When mealtime arrived, of course I added a spoonful of peanut butter to beef it up a little. Today’s outfit was another last minute decision.  I had [...]

Inspired by Janetha’s “Jamaican Me Bikini Ready” plan and all of the intense gym workouts she always blogs about, I created an interval workout for the treadmill. 0-5 minutes:  Walk at 4 mph 5-6:  Run at 6.2 mph 6-7:  Run at 6.4 mph 7-8:  Run at 6.6 mph 8-9:  Run at 6.8 mph 9-10:  Run [...]

Fun Holiday Movie Quote: “First we’ll make snow angels for a two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie dough as fast as we can, and then we’ll snuggle.” -Elf I snacked on some leftovers from the Sweet Swap.  I’ll probably be nibbling at a few items [...]