First things first!! It’s time to do a drawing!! Stephanie from www.catladyruns.com you are the winner of the book, Runner’s Guide To WDW 2014!!! Send me a message with your address and we will get it to you ASAP! Congratulations!! Now onto other pressing matters. Like this: This pic is a tad deceptive since Scott […]
My Running Year in Review and A Book Review and Give Away!
I have now been consistently running and training for races for four years. Which blows my mind both because it seems like I just started and, simultaneously, I can’t imagine a time in my life when I wasn’t heading out 3 – 4 times every week to pound the pavement and work out my “issues” […]
Top Five Reasons Why Disney World Marathon Weekend is Still My Favorite
I know we’re all crazy busy with Christmas preparations right now but I was just doing some finalizing of plans for WDW Marathon Weekend (January 10 – 12, 2014) and wanted to share with you, briefly, why this is my FAVORITE RunDisney weekend. This will be our fourth year to run – the first year […]
Deanna’s Story – If You Need Inspiration to Run Today, This is It
This is Deanna. Sometimes you meet someone and you know that you have to hear their story. I met a woman like that and asked her to please write her story because I knew others needed to hear it. This is the email she sent me yesterday. Dear Jen, I tell people about you all […]
That Time I Decided to Run The Disney World Wine and Dine Half Marathon at the Last Minute!!
So I realize some of you – the non-planners, the spur of the moment spontaneous crazy people, those to whom the last minute is normal – will think that deciding to do a race only five weeks out is . . .NORMAL. But for me? The planner? The one who books her hotel 14 months […]
Assemble Your Tribe! Female Friendships in Running and in Life
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about women and our friendships. I teach a class on relationships for our church, and when doing the research I came across a study that women diagnosed with cancer who have a close circle of friends are 4 TIMES less likely to die than women who say […]
Review – Tour Des Fleurs 10K, Dallas Arboretum!
Despite some definite strangeness that I will go into later, today was an amazing race and so so much fun!! Although the course was awesome, the homes along the way magnificent and the post race party to die for, the REAL STAR of the day was the weather. It was one of those seriously perfect […]
Are You Running Your First Race EVER This Weekend??
So now that the fall racing season is upon us, I KNOW some of you are running your first race EVER very soon. So my first word to you is: HOLY SMOKES, LOOK AT YOU! Do you have any idea how few people in the world have the courage and the strength and the discipline […]
Of Sick Days and 10K’s and Blog Posts that Rhyme
Sorry. That title was just ridiculous. But I came home sick from work today and am firmly planted on my couch with a head cold. It’s not fatal and I’m hitting the Netty pot, the spinach/grapefruit/apple juice and the green tea pretty hard so I’m expecting a full recovery within 24 hours. Well, I BETTER […]