Any gangster movies without Joe Pesci?

Remember way back in the day when me and the Gangster hills had it out? I told the hills to suck it and kicked it's butt from here to....to....to about the middle of September. I thought I was a Goodfella, a Wiseguy. But little did I know. After that, I couldn't kick...

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Me again humans!

I am back humans. Didn't think I'd take over again did you? While Mom has been waddling around after various feasts that I have been left out of, I have been developing my master plan to take over this blog.I am planning on re-naming it and not even mentioning this...

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Guess what I got for Christmas??? Besides, a virus-free computer, my new running shoes arrived! I did what Runner's World said and smelled the box after I opened the outer packaging. Mmmm, the smell of motivation and PR's. They are Asics Gel Kayano 15s if you must...

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The Twelve Weeks of Training

On the first week of training my coach gave to mean ice wrap for my achy knee. On the second week of training my coach gave to metwo running glovesand an ice wrap for my achy knee.On the third week of training my coach gave to methree bib pinstwo running glovesand an...

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H1N1 and Awesomeness

Happy Sunday friends! I hope you all are having lovely weekends. I am. My 14 miler went smoothly and thank the lord P-Funk was there to run 12.85 miles of it with me. She's not in training mode so I really appreciated the company. I swear sometimes we cannot make it...

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TGI motha-effin F!

Happy Friday everyone. We are only a few days from Christmas and I wanted to tell you early to have a great one and be safe out there. I know a lot of us run in the early morning and in the evening and this time of year brings out a lot of parties, and thus drinking...

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Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for chivalry! Guess what? It's not dead!The other night during my tempo run in a very cute little residential neighborhood I had an egg thrown at me. Yep. An actual egg was thrown at me by mental midgets. Or kids who just really have nothing better...

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Hot Damn Yoga!

I am sore.I am not just post tough run lower body sore, I am sore in my back, my arms, my shoulders, my legs. And you wanna know something totally ca-razy? It's from yoga. Bikram's yoga to be more specific. For those of you haven't heard of it, it's also known as hot...

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Grandma’s Marathon 2026 Race Recap

It’s been 84 years since I’ve written on this website. Since more than five of you said on my social media that you would read a race recap, here we go. I will attempt brevity but I have SO much to say. Grab a beverage and settle in. PRE RACE Way back in January I saw...

2023: A Look Back

It's almost the new year, and I keep hearing people say how the year flew by. Well friends, this year did not fly by for me. I think I would have preferred that. For me, it was a year of rebuilding my fitness. It was a year of new challenges and learning to work with...

Top Ten Things That Have Helped My Mental Health During Injury

As some of you may know, I am an ambassador for Still I Run. Ironically enough, I got the news I was accepted to be an ambassador about a week before I hurt my back. The irony being that Still I Run is a cause that supports running to help with mental health, plus a...

Happy New Year!…and How to Work on Your Lower Back Pain

Happy New Year! I promised to write more, mostly to myself cause who the heck still reads this, and so here I am! I'm just shy of six weeks out from my initial back injury. I'm not sure if I call it an injury or lumbar disc disease? Either way it sucks. Here's what...

The Return of the Blog

I realize the last time I wrote an update here was February 2020. Yikes. I was all guns blazing heading into my bikini competition prep. But, we all know what happened the very next month. The C word: Covid. I tried so hard to stick with the training. Truly. I worked...

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