Just Plodding Along

Once again I am shocked to find someone finds my blog entertaining enough to give it a shout out. Jac over at Challenged and Running in the Bike Lan e listed me as a very inspiring blogger. Very cool. Jac lives in the Phoenix area and when I lived in AZ we would commiserate about how sweaty and ridiculous it is there. But now that I live in Illinois I use her blog to think about being warm and sunshine. She is kind of a rock star runner and is just recently coming back from an injury to kick butt. I find her blog inspiring myself so if you are looking for inspiration to get out the door check her out.  Here are the Inspiring Blogger Award rules:  Display the award logo on your blog. ( Done) Link back to the person who nominated you. ( Done) State 7 things about yourself. ( Done) Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award and link to them. ( Um I am not that cool to list 15 so I will just list as many as I can think of) Notify those bloggers of the nomination and t...

First things first: The Treadmill Review Guru  named me a Get Up and Move blogger. Check out his list of other awesome bloggers at  http://www.treadmillreviewguru.com/articles/the-get-up-move-blogger-award/ . Thanks Treadmill Guru! Next lets talk about gear. As you may have noticed I have been acquiring a lot running gear. Which resulted in D asking why exactly I needed so many pairs of running shorts when I can only wear one pair at a time. Yes this question seems ridiculous to me too. But it did get me thinking how much of this running gear do I actually need. This question was came up again with the arrival of these Pro Compression socks in Neon yellow. Whoop  and a trip to target that resulted in this little number for around $10 D asked if I was gonna put my hair in a side pony tail since it reminded him of the 80s. And the answer is Yes, always yes on the side ponytail.  Obviously I have a obsession with running gear and can never have enough....

On the running agenda for this week:  Mon: Nada maybe yoga Tues: 6 miles Wed: 8 miles Thurs: Nada maybe yoga/ strength Fri: 8 miles Sat: 4 miles Sun: 14 miles As always, this plan is tentative and subject to changes due to life. Jac over at  Challenged and Running in the Bike Lane  (who I like to think of as my AZ running amiga) nominated me for the Beautiful Blogger Award. Thanks Jac! She has been running for a million days in a row now in the Arizona heat. Pretty dang inspiring.  Here are the rules: Copy the Beautiful Blogger Award logo and post it in your post Thank the person who nominated you & link back to their blog Tell all of us 7 things about yourself Nominate 7 other bloggers & comment on their page to let them know. 7 Things: 1) I am a big fan of photography and used to do it a lot, now not so much but hope to get back into it (you know pictures that are not a blurry half marathon course).  2) I love F...

Kate over at Run with Kate  highlighted me for a Liebster Award! Thanks Kate. According to her blog which I am copying because I am all original all the time the Liebster award is given to upcoming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. The meaning: Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, endearing and welcome. None of these adjectives apply to me when I am extremely hungry or tired.....but hopefully at other times. Rules for the award: 1) Each person must post 11 things about  themselves 2) Then answer the questions the tagger sent for them, plus create 11 questions for the people they've tagged to answer. 3) Choose 11 people and link them in your post. 4) Notify the people you have tagged. 5) No tag backs. Two thumbs up for random facts about me you did not want to know My 11 things: 1.    My favorite food is bananas followed by ice cream. Or put them together= heaven. 2. People wh...

Katelin over at HealthyFatKid  nominated me for a One Lovely Blog award which is pretty dang cool. I am still always a little bit surprised when people who are not related to me or tied to me through a contractual document that says we are legally bound to each other forever, FOREVER (Yay marriage), read my blog. So yeah pretty freaking awesome! So apparently there are some rules involved which I yanked from Katelin because I am that lazy. - Link back to the blogger who nominated you (check) -Paste the award image anywhere on your blog (check, see above also yanked) -Share seven(!) facts about yourself (harder than I thought, check) -Nominate other blogs you enjoy for this award (easy, done & done) -Post a comment on your nominees’ blogs to let them know of their nomination (will do) Now I have to come up with seven facts that are maybe a little bit interesting, but I make no promises. Fun awesome fact # 1) I lived in Anchorage Alaska for two years. And was best f...