A blog by a dietitian about running with a "dash" of real life and nutrition thrown in!
The TLDR version: on 11/5, I ran a 50K relay on the Noland Trail in Virginia with my friends. Our team name was Last Freakin’ Dead, but we didn’t finish Dead Freakin’ Last. We completed the race in 7 hours and 10 minutes. It was the prettiest race I’ve ever run, and the company was… Continue reading Race Recap: Noland Trail 50K Relay
The short & sweet version of this race recap: I participated in "The Wonder" Challenge (1 mile and 5k on Saturday, international half marathon on Sunday) at the 2022 Detroit Free Press Marathon races this weekend with my friend Katelyn. My hubby came along for the journey and was an amazing race photographer and cheerleader,… Continue reading Race Recap: 2022 Detroit Free Press Marathon Races
The last couple of years have been challenging, to say the least. I can't think of many people who can look back on 2020 to now and say, "Oh yeah, no hard times at all, definitely all good." Besides a global pandemic that completely uprooted most of our lives, many folks, me included, had other… Continue reading A New Baseline
Well, hey there readers! It’s been a while since I posted one of these recaps. One reason is that I have not run quite as many races as I used to. Another has been lack of inspiration. Also, life gets busy and crazy and writing unfortunately takes a back seat. As I mentioned in my… Continue reading Race Recap: Capital City River Run 2022 Half Marathon Relay
I have not written a blog in over 3 months. The reason for that is a combination of different things. I've been very busy, which I'll get into more in the rest of this entry. I also have not felt super inspired. That could be related to how busy I have been, how tired I… Continue reading Every New Beginning Comes from Some Other Beginning’s End
2020 was a really difficult year. There were floods and windstorms. My husband and dad both spent way too much time in the hospital. Oh yeah, and there was a global pandemic that completely flipped our lives upside down. I went from being a super social person that spent a lot of time with friends… Continue reading National Best Friends Day
The first Mother’s Day without my mom wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. The universe really tried to mess me up by having it fall exactly one month after my mom died. I spent most of the day hanging out with my sister, who is also a mom, shopping and having food… Continue reading The Second Motherless Mother’s Day
At some point my life has become full of "before and after". The first one that I remember was before I ever got an eye infection that would alter my vision permanently, and after. The next was before mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and after. The most prominent for, well, everyone, is probably before… Continue reading What a Year It Has Been…
At the beginning of this year, my friend Kendra decided that she wanted to do her first half marathon in 2022, and she wanted to actually train for it this time. This idea came with wanting to run some other races during the year, the first one being Corktown Races in Detroit for St. Patrick's… Continue reading Race Recap: Corktown Races 2022
Grief. It’s a s*** combination of trying to move on, not wanting to, and doing your best to survive. This is the painful reality of loss.Mark Lemon, @marklemonofficial I was just scrolling through my Facebook feed when a post about an upcoming race caught my eye. It is a trail race with a 10k or… Continue reading The Anniversary Approaches
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Christopher and Allison, two fellow mental health running warriors, on Christopher's Podcast 40,000 Steps Radio. Christopher and I connected on Instagram when we were both selected to be 2022 Ambassadors for Still I Run - "a community of runners and mental health… Continue reading The Dichotomy in the Dietitian Community
Trigger warning: substance abuse, depression, suicide 24 years ago today my mom made the brave choice to stop drinking. At 10 years old, I did not understand the impact that this would make, or what it would mean for our family's future. I had no idea that my mom had a drinking problem. I have… Continue reading 24 Years, One Day at a Time
Last year I came up with an idea to cook through an entire cookbook over the course of the year. Unfortunately, I never came up with a plan to tackle this big goal, nor was I inspired at all to use any particular cookbook to make it happen. This year I shared that I wanted… Continue reading 146 Recipes in 365 Days
100 races. Back in 2008, when I ran my first three 5k races, the idea of running 100 races was not even on my radar. In fact, I took a break from running after those first three races, a break that lasted from 2008 until 2012. Even then, I had no goals of running streaks… Continue reading Race Recap: Winterlaufe 2022
There’s a meme that goes around this time of year with a pie chart of all of the months of the year. It is titled “How Time Passes in Michigan”. All of the slices of the pie are fairly equal (the summer months are the smallest and they get bigger as they get closer to… Continue reading One Month Down, 11 to Go…
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