Things I did not do today: Run the 8 miles on the schedule. Or, um, at all. Things I did do today: Walked about 3 miles, one of which while laden with all this crap: You have to click on…
So, I did it yesterday. I signed up for my second fall marathon — the Maine Marathon, the first one I ever did last year. I knew it was what I wanted to do, but I put off making the…
So, I joined the Lewiston-Auburn Bicycle Pedestrian Committee. It’s a new committee that was created to essentially help develop walking and bike-friendly transportation in the big cities. As a Lewiston resident, runner, and dog walker, I felt qualified enough to join the…
So if you didn’t catch my grousing on Twitter/Facebook already, the 50-mile ride was cancelled. I got in my car at 6:15 a.m. and a flood alert for Cumberland County was on the radio. I had driven the 30-minute ride…
I am doing this: In this: So I have been Googling this: No, I’m not feeling lucky. Here’s the plan: Layer 1: Tri top, bike shorts Layer 2: (Running) Rain jacket, running capris (my leggings are all either too warm…
Taper time is almost done. The Sugarloaf Marathon is next week. I’d been feeling down about my training, as you know, and I actually have been interpreting the past week more like, “oh shit, did I really work hard enough…
Hey blog world. I’m coming to you from the beautiful outdoors, where Maine is being its best right now. It was a miserable week — rain and below 50 just about every day — but Sunday has shown itself to…
I love this. Beating my personal best is such a huge motivator. I can’t imagine going back to before we had this technology.
Totally used the hash tag #firstworldproblems today. Then I had to explain it (not very well). Then I saw this on Reddit tonight: So true, Reddit. So true. Despite the fact that my commute is so ridiculously short it’s practically…
I didn’t get a chance to post yesterday because I was at the Maine Press Association annual conference in Northport. We won a bunch of awards! It was a great day. There was a ton of celebrating. To make up…
