July 2012

Begin Where I Am

July 26, 2012

In the Spring I had grand visions of lots of long summer runs where I ran watch-free and didn’t care about mileage or pace or distance. I wanted to have a couple of months of carefree running, the way I did before I ever ran a race. Kimra calls it “Running Stupid”, and that’s exactly [...]

Tagged as: National Stroke Association, Running

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Week End Recall – Cautiously Optimistic

July 22, 2012

After last weekend’s DSE Run, I took Monday as a Rest Day, and then resumed running on Tuesday. Tues, 7/17 5-mile Run: I worked from home that day and ran during my lunch hour. It wasn’t as hot as I anticipated. Even better, my knee felt a slightly better. I only felt it mildly once [...]

Tagged as: Injury, Physical Therapy, Running

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5 Blog Posts I Loved This Week

July 20, 2012

Who doesn’t love Friday’s? It’s been a pretty good week for me all around so I thought I’d end it by sharing some of my favorite readings from the past week: 1. Is Running Actually Healthy? And why do we care? Jojo wrote this post in response to an article that appeared on SFGate.com (the [...]

Tagged as: Blog, Favorites

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Running with Friends at the DSE 6-hr Endurance Challenge

July 17, 2012

Truth be told, last Thursday’s run was more of a struggle than I let on. I saw my PT the next day and she thought I might be fatigued since I’m still building back into the swing of things from an extended rest period. So I took last Friday and Saturday as rest days. Normally [...]

Tagged as: Friends, Running, San Francisco

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New Blog Design!

July 16, 2012

I’ve had this blog since 2007, and as I’ve changed, so has my little blog. When I had this design created for my blog in 2009 it was exactly what I wanted at that time. But over the past few months I didn’t really feel connected to it anymore. I wanted to change the look [...]

Tagged as: Blog, Web Design

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Maintenance Mode

July 12, 2012

Since I last blogged over 2 1/2 weeks ago, I started running again: 7/5: 3-miles 7/7: 4-miles 7/8: 5-miles 7/10: 4-miles 7/12: 5-miles To say it’s been humbling is an understatement. After taking 12 days off, not just from running, but also from any and all lower body workouts, I found that I really lost [...]

Tagged as: Blog, Running

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30-Days Gluten-Free!

July 5, 2012

I looked at the calendar on Tuesday and realized it marked 1-month of eating gluten-free! When adopting a gluten-free diet was first suggested to me I thought it would be really a hard change to make. But I’ve found that with a little extra time spent planning (which by the way, I love to do…); [...]

Tagged as: Gluten-Free, Nutrition, Recipes

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