Explore the World one Step at a Time
Explore the World one Step at a Time
During a recent trip to Austin, Texas, we finally managed to walk the Lady Bird Lake Boardwalk. This was less a hike and more a walk, but beautiful nonetheless. You’ll get a great view of the ever-changing and ever-growing Austin Skyline. During my very first visit to Austin in 2006, you could easily make out the “Owl” Building or Frost Bank Tower. It’s so difficult to see now, though it’s…
Yeah! Road Trip to San Diego! 🙂 The race is this weekend! Finally all that hard (ahem!) training is going to pay off… or something. Our SGV Team in Training team raised over $150,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! How awesome is that? At the Team in Training shake-out run – coach Erika and I: The shake-out run was along the waterfront and look what we saw, a Team…
It has been an amazing Team in Training season and I wish I would have shared more with you as we trained. We had some fun moments learning THE BIG RESET & sumo-style stretching. We had amazing fundraising heroes, who all went out of their way to raise money for a cause so much bigger than themselves. And last but not least we had some great moments that we will…
Wow! I didn’t think I could stay away from racing for a full year. But then it happened. My last race before my running sabbatical was the Austin Half Marathon in 2015. I took 3 straight months off from running and then slowly added short runs back into my routine. And when I say “short runs” I mean short runs, like 2-3 miles. It was a great time of resting.…
The other day I found myself mostly bored and low on energy. As I was going through my Netflix queue I thought, what could I do to pick my energy up again? I thought of: going for a run (too much effort) going for a walk (still too much effort) cleaning the house (who are we kidding?) going to get a coffee (even that didn’t lure me off the…
Wow! I didn’t think when I started that I would keep this up. But we are now in week 5 or 6 on the kale train. Now that I really like the taste and have fine-tuned some glitches (too little water, too much chia-seeds, too old kale, not blended long enough), I find it’s time to take this smoothie-thing to the next level (eek – that sounds like work…
I like my snacks. I really can’t help it. Here is one of my most favorite easy to make snacks that I keep in the freezer. Frozen bananas with peanut butter Pretty easy to make in three steps: Cut up bananas into pieces Add peanut butter on top Throw into freezer Just note that the peanut butter won’t fully freeze, but that”s better when eating anyway. And don’t eat…
This is actually hard. Really hard. The first few runs after my running sabbatical were easy and fun and I thought it would be easy to just go and work my way back up to real mileage. Read more: the 5 lessons I learned from my running sabbatical. But it’s not easy! I am having a tough time getting back into a running routine. Most of the time, but…
So I finally run out of coconut milk. And now I know you don’t need it! 🙂 This week’s kale smoothie recipe with cucumber, blueberries, and chia seeds. 1 cup kale 1/2 cup cucumber 1/2 cup blueberries 1 tbsp chia seeds 8 oz apple juice Just watch out: The chia seeds take on the liquid and become jelly. Drink fast or stir often. I loved this one. The chia seeds…