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Meredith

I'm just your typical girl-next-door who happens to have a highly competitive streak in running and triathlon.
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Week in Review by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running This week I set my alarm to get up at 7:00 every morning and yet, not once did I actually get up at that time.  It's so hard when the bug gets up multiple times during the ... Read on »
The '80s Vomited on my Running Clothes by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running I went shopping today and got vomited on. You see, one of my trail races, the 50K, is held during deer hunting season in Ohio and there is a disclaimer on the race web ... Read on »
Foto Friday by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running I've been internally debating how much I want to post about the baby.  It's not his choice to show up on my blog.  And I don't want any weirdos creeping on him, ya know?  S ... Read on »
Thursday Thoughts by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running With the plans coming together to take on trail running and some longer races later this year, it's time to load the iPod up with some good tunes with which to train.  Yes, ... Read on »
Fixed! by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running *This is a long overdue post.  It did not take weeks to get our oven fixed.* Dave and I are cheap.  Well, thrifty.  When our oven broke we tried to find the part we th ... Read on »
My Mother's Day by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running I had a great first mother's day. The day started great when the little bug decided to let us sleep in.  This was great as we had worked a photo booth event the evenin ... Read on »
Week in Review by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running So much for easing back into things.  I went full-throttle this week.  It's been six week; I'm allowed! Monday - 4.25 miles run/walk; 0.50 hours of weight training I ... Read on »
The Approach by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running I haven't the foggiest idea how to attack training for a trail marathon and/or an ultra.  First and foremost, I want to train for the half marathon and to try to a PR with ... Read on »
The Long and Short of It by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running Andrea texted me yesterday saying she wanted to go back to running marathons because they were "easier" than racing halfs.  I returned the text, laughing, because I said I ... Read on »
Week in Review by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running As mentioned earlier this week , I am back to running - this time with permission from the doctor.  I started the week walking and ended the week with a walk, but in the mi ... Read on »
Foto Friday by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running Halfway through my pregnancy my mom started telling me that I needed to be keeping this and that for Anderson's baby book.  Say what now?  I've got to make a baby book?  Cr ... Read on »
I'm Back!!! by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running I had this whole post written with picture included.  I went to save it and then publish it, but because I never shut down my computer or close any windows and the fact tha ... Read on »
I'm a Reading Fool by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running I've been a reading fool.  I finished three books in April alone.  When you're up half the night feeding the baby and trying to get him back to sleep, it's easy to get some ... Read on »
April Totals by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running The baby has come and it was time to get back to work.  For the first four weeks post-pregnancy all I did was walk with increasing length and speed as the weeks went by.  B ... Read on »
Week in Review by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running I finally got the opportunity to head out by myself this week to do a longer walk.  I added in some jogging into that walk.  I put a snarky comment on Twitter about adding ... Read on »
Ramen Noodles, Anyone? by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running We were very fortunate that the first couple weeks with Anderson we were provided with many meals from our friends, family, neighbors, and church folks.  We enjoyed good me ... Read on »
Week in Review by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running The weather somewhat resembled spring this week (minus Saturday) so Baby A and I got many opportunities to get out and enjoy some walking in the sunshine and warmer tempera ... Read on »
Shopping on Saturday by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running After three plus weeks of being inside and doing nothing but babybabybaby, I thought I was going insane yesterday.  So, Dave promised me an afternoon to myself and getting ... Read on »
Foto Friday by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running The most recent photo dump of my kiddo.  Yeah, this is what it's going to be like now.  :) Read on »
Miscellany for Thursday by Meredith Posted in: Blog Posts in Running Let's start with the obvious.  On Monday I wished my friends good luck at Boston on my Facebook status and stated that I was super-jealous.  I had planned on qualifyin ... Read on »