If you read Carla’s blog as regularly as I do, you may recall her post about broken windows, and you still may be pondering her post about falling leaves. Carla’s posts are like that. They seem simple on the surface, but weeks (months?) later I realize that she has wormed her way into my psyche and I am thinking about things in a different way. Continue reading
I went into the Army Ten Miler feeling like I hadn’t trained for it, but after I finished with an all-time personal record, I have been reflecting on what I was doing during those weeks leading up to the Army Ten Miler. My best guess is that all that cycling combined with my solid running base helped me cross the finish line smiling. So, here’s what I learned about how to cross train for running your best race.
Ever since I learned that a weak core was the source of many of my running injuries, I have integrated core work–and planks in particular–into my workout routine. I don’t enjoy the plank-a-thon approach, but I have come up with several plank routines that have kept my core strong and the rest of my body relatively injury-free.
photo credit: Amanda Duran at GrowSoulBeautiful
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I love my easy no-bake oatmeal peanut butter balls (and judging by how many hits that recipe gets every day, you do too!), but now that it’s fall I’m craving a bit of pumpkin in my life. I found a few oatmeal pumpkin ball recipes on other blogs, but most required too many ingredients I didn’t have on hand (liked dates and pepitas), so I decided to come up with my own pumpkin oatmeal balls recipe.
On one of my recent trips to New York City, I got up with my usual 5:00 am alarm and headed out for a run along the East River. Because I’ve been traveling so much lately, I hadn’t realized how dark it was at o’dark-thirty. When I got to the path along the river and it was still this dark, I questioned the wisdom of being out so early, but the sight of another runner made me feel better.
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