I'm raising money for the CCFA's Team Challenge, an endurance training program designed to raise money for Crohn's and Colitis research and education. I'll be running the Napa to Sonoma half marathon in July, and have a goal of raising $5000 for the charity.

Please support my fund raising efforts at my donation website. Every little bit helps ( Read more... )

I'm running another half marathon this year - actually two. I'm currently training and training (and fundraising) for Boston's Run to Remember at the end of May and for the Napa Valley to Sonoma Half Marathon in July. The Napa Valley Half is part of Team Challenge, so I'm trying to raise money for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. I love the ( Read more... )

And not quite up to snuff ( Read more... )

The song is Self Control by Laura Branigan.  I didn't remember the title, but just enough lyrics to use the power of Google.

Worship the power of Google.  Oooh!

No Skirt!

I got home safe and sound.
I had a lot of fun (Thank you,
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I wanted waffles this morning, but didn't have any eggs and cobbled something together loosely based on a recipe found from Fat Free (it's a vegetarian recipe archive, some of which are good and a lot of which are pretty odd).  Mine weren't fat free, but I used up a banana that I was too lazy to make into banana bread and a pint of blueberries that ( Read more... )

I've been keeping a moderately close eye on the weather this weekend, because I have more outdoors time than normal.  I had mostly resigned myself last night to doing my run today on a treadmill as well.  Not too bad, but not as good for the legs as the street (if I were doing a half marathon on a treadmill, then I probably wouldn't give a bit of ( Read more... )

The pants I'm wearing to work today are about to fall off. *sigh* Crunches (well, except reverse crunches) don't feel like much of anything anymore. The pilates-style crunches are much more effective (read painful) and exciting to do.

So, I've been looking at the wonderful world of eBay and seeing if there were any treasures that would be ( Read more... )

A light dusting of snow is coming down. I noticed it sometime shortly after I woke up, and went to one of the other rooms for a better view. My long run is today, and this will be a welcome change. Running in snow isn't necessarily harder than just running in the cold, but it is definitely prettier.

( voice lessons )

( supervillain is me )