April 2010

Weekend Warrior Challenge: Braveheart Edition

April 30, 2010

I thought that this month’s Weekend Warrior Challenge theme, Braveheart, was particularly appropriate for me. It’s definitely going to take a brave heart for me to reach my marathon goals this weekend. There’s a bunch of people doing this challenge this month, I’ll post a complete list below when the list gets finalized. There’s a [...]

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Net Calorie Burn Vs. Total Calorie Burn

April 29, 2010

Yesterday I stumbled across an old Runners World article that talked about two of my favorite things: running and calories. The article took on the very popular argument that states running a mile and walking a mile burn roughly the same amount of calories. I actually thought this was true until I read the article. [...]

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Feelin’ Antsy

April 27, 2010

This week, I’m only running 36.2 miles. Ha! only 36.2 miles. My highest mileage ever in a week was 40 so this is pretty close. But here’s the kicker–only 10 of those miles won’t be in a race and that’s the lowest weekly total I’ve run since I’ve been running races. I’ve got runs of [...]

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Yeah, I Can Hang With The Cool Kids

April 26, 2010

We spent this weekend in beautiful Grand Mound, WA (What the…is a grand mound anyway?) at the Great Wolf Lodge. It’s a crazy expensive but really fun family resort that features a great water park with all sorts of activities for everyone in the family. Actually, the weekend doubled as a race weekend for Pam. [...]

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Get Fit Slowly Book Shelf

April 23, 2010

It used to be that whenever I read a book, it was a novel. I didn’t really enjoy reading non-fiction. In fact, I used to be in a book club and every time there was a non-fiction title, I kind of tuned out. But you know what? I’ve found a genre of non-fiction that I [...]

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