Happy Friday! For this week’s Friday Five, I was thinking about five cities I’ve run in during 2016 so far. If you count DC, I think I’ve run in six states this year (VA, NC, MD, DC, Illinois and Massachusetts) and we’re just getting into May. Later this month, I’ll be heading back to North Carolina […]
Five Best Things About Work Travel
Happy Friday! As you probably know, I’ve been traveling for the past two weeks and today I’m finally heading home – but not until late this evening. As such, this week I’m writing about the five best things about work travel. The truth is, being gone (especially for two weeks) is hard. However, I’m focusing […]
Five Bucket List Vacations
Hello and thank goodness we made it to the end of another week! December is here, holiday decorations are everywhere and I love it! Regardless of how you feel about the holidays, I hope we can all agree how we feel about vacations – they are amazing and we should all take more, am I […]
West Virginia Weekend Getaway Recap
Recently, K and I packed up our bags and our dog and headed to Charles Town, West Virginia to celebrate one year of marriage. Charles Town is just 90 minutes from DC and it’s home of the super cute Hillbrook Inn, where we set up home base for a few days. The inn was […]
Five Trips to Take
Happy Friday! Hope everyone had a great week! The Friday Five theme this week is five trips to take. I created my list of trips filled with some places I’ve been and some places I’d like to go. Can’t wait to read everyone’s list. Per usual, I’m linking up with my girls Cynthia and Mar for the #Friday Five. You can read […]
The Honeymoon, Pt I
As I mentioned recently, we had an amazing time while in the Dominican Republic for our weeklong honeymoon. I only wish we could’ve stayed longer! I thought I’d share some pictures from the first part of our trip along with some tips if you are thinking of visiting the Dominican Republic. This was fun to […]
The Anatomy of a Great Run
I had an incredible run in New York City last Thursday night and it made me think about the anatomy of a great run. What makes a run great? What made that particular run so fantastic? Could I even quantify it? Here’s my effort at trying: I had an unintentional pacer. As I was running towards the […]
Five for Friday Fall Edition
Happy Friday! I am really looking forward to this weekend. The weather has been great and while it’s pretty jam packed, it should be a lot of fun. Here are some of the things I’m excited about: On Saturday, I’m running the Pacers Clarendon Day Double (5k + 10k) for my long run for the […]
5 Tips for Runners on Business Travel
As I was preparing my bag for my first business trip of the fall, I began thinking that this will be my first travel season while I’m in the midst of heavy training. I have about two months left until my very first marathon and during that two month period, I will be traveling at […]
2 Months Left!
There are just over two months left before I will run my very first marathon (I’m running the Richmond Marathon November 16th). I’ve decided instead of just posting all my training recaps each week (although I’ll still do that some as well) that I will highlight some exciting running stuff for the upcoming week on […]