What’s for Breakfast?

There are two types of people in this world: breakfast people and non-breakfast people.  I am definitely a breakfast person.  I typically wake up hungry and head to

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Apple Pie Endurance Gel

Last weekend was my son’s seventh birthday.  Instead of a cake, he wanted apple pie.  So I found a recipe for mason jar hand pies and went to

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Run Slow, Get Fast

Most runners cringe at the word “jog.”  If a non-runner asks, “How was your jog?”  the most likely response is a curt, “my run was great, thanks.”  

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Chocolate Hummus

For my kids who have a year-round calendar, it’s already back to school.  So that means the struggle to make healthy, tasty, nut-free lunches is on.  One kid

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Crawling My Way to Running Faster

The idea of functional movement seems to everywhere for me lately.  How can we move well through life?  As runners, we tend to move only in one direction:

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Catching Pokemon Catchers

I am not the type of person to play games on my phone.  I’d rather read an interesting article than play a video game. So of course, I

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Hello New Shoes, Bye Bye Blues

“I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything’s right,” Paolo Nutini sings.  There’s just something about new shoes. This will be the pair that I love every step,

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Escaping With a Good Podcast

I nearly always run with headphones.  Not on the track or the trails, but whenever I’m out for a run alone, I’m listening to something. I used to

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Way Upstate New York

What a difference 2000 feet makes!  That and a 15-hour drive north.  Running along Lake Ontario is a road runner’s dream.  Smooth and flat with a lake breeze

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