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  • wedding weekend (mostly in pix)

    We spent Thursday through Saturday in Gainesville, celebrating the wedding of Josh’s cousin.  The drive was not suuuuper-easy (300 miles with a 2.5 / 4.5 year old are never going to be!) but I…

    November 8, 2016
  • weekly report

    2 days late?  Well, I did admit it was a rough weekend. Workouts: (last week of half pre-training!) M – 4 miles with 2 at tempo pace.  Warmup 10:07/mi, tempo 2 mi 8:36/mi and…

    November 3, 2016
  • Halloween happenings

    Well.  I survived the weekend.  It was not one for the books.  Work was moderately busy.  Josh was off but had tons of work to do.  I felt scattered.  I did not work out.…

    November 1, 2016
  • call notes / taking a deep breath

    I’m on call this weekend.  There are 52 weekends in a year (well, actually 52.5 this year + next year! Neither 365 nor 366 are evenly divisible by 7).  I am on call for…

    October 29, 2016
  • skincare, makeup, being a grownup

    I am 36 years old. Things I do that are vain: 1) get my hair Japanese straightened 2) waxing (mainly eyebrows) 3) get pedicures, roughly half as often as I should 4) get manicures,…

    October 27, 2016
  • weekly report!

    Workouts M – 5 mi easy run with progression, 10:14/mi ave.  Splits 10:32, 10:22, 10:04, 9:16, 10:57.  Ave HR 165.  79F T – 30 minute barre3 online weekly workout W –  5 mi fartlek, 9:21/mi ave.  Splits 9:46, 9:11, 9:01, 9:27, 9:21.  HR ave 173.  77F R – rest F –…

    October 25, 2016
  • date weekend in Austin

    Date nights are fantastic.  But date weekends are really something special.  We try to do one at least once a year, and this year was a double bonus because we took a mid-week trip to celebrate…

    October 24, 2016
  • weekend report: unplugged and happy edition

    I can’t remember the last time we’ve had so many consecutive weekends a) at home and b) not on call.  It has been amazing.  Amazing enough that I was not really ready to go back…

    October 17, 2016
  • My Blog Is Ugly

    THERE, I said it.  I’m not referring to the header, which I still think is very cute.  But the overall layout is just . . . 2000-and-late.  Or whatever the kids are saying these…

    October 12, 2016
  • weekly rundown

    last week’s workouts: M – 5 mi.  Splits: 9:33, 9:35, 9:48, 10:24, 10:29.  HR ave 169, max 184.  79F T – barre3 30 min W – 4.4 mi.  Splits: 10:19, 9:40, 9:41, 10:55.  HR ave 173, max 193.  81F R – rest / hurricane day @ home!  …

    October 11, 2016