Browsing all posts from October, 2009.

Tips For a Great Half Marathon

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Tips For a Great Half Marathon

This is how much I love my running homies.  Below are my best tips to successfully run 13.1.  Actually, the advice will work for any middle distance if you tweak the mile increments accordingly.  Here is ten years of running expertise bulleted in Microsoft Word, just for YOU.  Drum roll… No need to go crazy on [...]

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Costumes

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Costumes

Asking Toby what he wants to be for Halloween is the last thing I should do the week before Halloween.  Yet there I was yesterday morning, blurting the question very open-endedly as if the world were his costume oyster. Costumes stump me every year.  Maybe because I wait until the last minute, or maybe because Toby loves anything unorthodox [...]

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How To Train For a Half Marathon

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How To Train For a Half Marathon

All right you Running Mamas let’s talk some business.  Fall is here.  Forget autumn foliage.  Forget pumpkin spice lattes.  Forget Old Navy pullovers.  The best part of fall is running.  No more trespassing through lawn sprinklers to fend off heatstroke. Glory!!!  Nothing beats a chilly run.  I love seeing my breath as I lace up my [...]

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Magic Tricks

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Magic Tricks

Sometimes I feel stuck in some sort of Copperfield-ian sphere where nothing is really what it seems.  My friend just had a baby and of course I can barely talk about him without lactating into a puddle of nostalgia.  Toby and Charlie were babies like last week, right?    That’s how it feels anyway, which leaves me scratching my [...]

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On Geeks and Humility

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There was a super-fancy web guy at the writer’s conference.  He consulted with people on their websites and offered suggestions for improvement.   Of course I signed up to see him, being that I was miss fancy-blogger with my custom header I designed myself.  I figured I should show off my bloggity skillz to someone who would really appreciate [...]

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