Happy Thanksgiving! I hope those of you that celebrate the holiday had a wonderful long weekend. (If you only check in here for the weekly recap, be sure to check out the final recap post of our recent trip to Norway: "Fits on the Road in Flåm and Oslo!") My holiday weekend coincided with a cutback week in mileage for training for the Houston Marathon (my 30th full at the end of January!) It Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 9 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
It's Sunday and weekly recap time! If you only check in on Sundays, be sure to read this review from earlier this week of the SPIBeam hat. It's a great product! I am nine weeks out from the Houston Marathon. Here's how training (and life!) went this past week: Monday: 9 miles on the treadmill in the evening. I had hoped to do this run before work, but without combining it into a run Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 10 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Another week, another weekly recap of training for the Houston Marathon! Time is flying by and there are just 10 short weeks until I run my 30th marathon at the end of January. *Quick note- if you only check in here for my weekly recaps, be sure to check out this post, the 3rd post about our trip to Norway- this time recapping our time in Bergen! Winter arrived in full force this week in Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 11 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Happy Sunday friends! If you only check in for the weekly recap, please check out these two posts from earlier this week: Guest Post: My First Ironman <-- inspiring guest post from my friend Paige, who is a full-time working mom who crushed her first Ironman! Fits on the Road in Norway: Lofthus & Solstrand <-- another travel post about my recent trip to Norway! Now onto my Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: 12 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon
Happy Sunday! As usual, I'm here with a weekly recap of training for the Houston Marathon. We are now 12 weeks out from marathon #30! Here's how my training went this past week: Monday: After a fun but tough 13-mile run in the rain the previous day (read about that HERE), Dustin decided he was going to rest today, so I did 6 miles on my own in Flåm, Norway. This was actually the first time Continue Reading
13 Weeks until the Houston Marathon & Running in Scandinavia
This weekly recap post is a unique one, as it includes a lot of running in Scandinavia! If you missed it, I shared this Fits on the Road post about the first part of our trip, which included Copenhagen, Denmark and Gothenburg, Sweden. I plan to share similar posts about the rest of our time in Norway; I'll keep this recap post a bit shorter and focused on fitness. But please stop by later this Continue Reading
15 Weeks Until the Houston Marathon: I Love Running!
I'm so very behind on my weekly recap; I totally missed HoHo Runs and Taking the Long Way Home's link-up this week! But I'm still here to share how this past week went in training for the Houston Marathon; I have to document it or it didn't happen, right? We are 15 weeks out now; training is ramping up a little bit! Unfortunately I was crazy busy at work this week so all I had time for was Continue Reading