The new Urth box

My sister has always been pretty creative in her Christmas gifts and most years one of the gifts to me was some sort of goodies box.  Remember that Huge home made runner box she made for me a few years back?  She filled me up with fuels and snacks to last me for months!

This past year she ordered me a three

Wine n Dine 2016

Way back when we registered for the WDW Marathon for 2016, I knew that I was not going to follow it up with the Glass Slipper challenge for 2016. I did both challenges last year and knew it was not a smart idea.


With that being said, since we knew we were going to pass on Princess, we planned on this being the year to do the Wine n Dine half marathon.

I am sure this year is going to be a unique

Running Highlights you wont want to miss

I have hit a huge milestone this month already!   Remember over Christmas break I said that one of my goals was to catch up on all my magazine subscriptions?  Yea, well that did not happen. 

However, I am proud to say that I have

How Running Enhances Lives

You've all heard about how running can be beneficial to your health. Although I am sure that is true, I never started running to be healthy or to lose weight. To be honest, I have never experienced as much pain and discomfort and I've never visited more doctors, physical therapist, masseuse, and orthopedic surgeons than I have since I started running.  This running has been painful, expensive, and at times miserable but it has definitely enhance my life ten fold!

Because of running I have

On Dancing

I admit that when the whole Dancing With The Stars craze happened, I didn't jump on board. What is so interesting about a bunch of people twirling around anyway?  But much like all good tv programs, I caught on a few seasons later, much like I did with the Big Bang Theory (why didn't anyone tell me that show was so funny?).

Anyway, I've taken a

Confession Time

Wow, I don't think we've ever done a confessions post. Have we?  It seems like the popular thing to do to recap the end of the month, so why not.

It is Fitness Friday but as I stated in a previous post that February was my Rest Month, Hallelujah!  (I know most people take a rest "day" or a weekend, but I took  an entire month).  I enjoyed not rushing home everyday to get to the gym and thought I would be able to use that time relaxing and reading books and just doing nothing, BUT THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. It seems as when you have free time, you quickly find ways to occupy it.

 Here is what I have to confess from last month, the good and the bad........

Earning the Right to Run

When I was marathon training I would try to make it to the gym as often as I could during the week and then do my long runs on the weekend.  I don't mean to sound like a broken record but I did mention before numerous times how this method left me exhausted.  The reason I was so adamant about going to the gym though was because I wanted to do the strengthening exercises for my legs so that I could put the IT band injury WAY behind me. I had suffered with that injury for 19 months and it was awful.  What I was doing at the gym seemed to help.

There were  only a few weeks when I did not