Happy Monday and happy President’s Day my friends. Here’s a piece of presidential trivia for you that I learned from a running group that I’m in on Facebook. George W is the only president to have ever run a marathon! It’s been a great Monday over here. Such a treat to enjoy a slow start [...]

On Sunday I completed my longest hike ever – just over 31 miles on the Appalachian Trail at Carver’s Gap. We did this hike as an out and back. It was a huge hiking distance PR for me and my first 50K hike! I lived to tell the tale…just barely…what a day it was! I [...]

Happy weekend friends! We arrived home from our Disney Cruise on Thursday and have been getting settled back in at home. It was great to get home on a Thursday so that we had just one work/school day and then the weekend to reintegrate. HOME!  No one was happier to have us home than the [...]

Hello from the Disney Dream! It’s 8:30a on Tuesday morning and I’m sitting on our verandah with a cup of coffee writing this post while Finn snoozes inside. Disney Cruises are busy, busy things and he’s been going nonstop since we got on board. Last night he passed out horizontally across the bed on top [...]

I should be halfway through my first ultra trail race at this very moment but instead I’m sitting at my desk on a sunny, blue sky Saturday afternoon writing this post. I am extremely disappointed to miss out on the race and sharing the experience with a friend – but I am also 100 percent [...]

Hello from the sick house. Flu is rampant in our area and at Finn’s school right now and we were not spared. WE HAVE BEEN HIT BY THE FLU Finn went down on Saturday night and had a cough and high fever. I went down last night and the worst of my symptoms are a [...]

Happy Friday! I hope it’s been a good week for you guys. I had a solid week full of training clients, teaching yoga and momming. I also had a big appointment for my hip (!!!!!) and nailed down spring marathon plans so updates on both of those are coming in the next week. I hope [...]

Hello my long lost friends. The beginning of 2025 has been such a whirlwind (in mostly great ways!) that I have been absent from this space. As you can imagine, January is a busy month in my line of work and I’ve been logging lots of hours in the gym and yoga studio training clients, [...]

Greetings and merry all the things from Florida! We were able to travel to Florida this year to spend Christmas with my family and oh what fun it’s been to be here! DECEMBER 23 We traveled to Florida on Monday, December 23. All things considered, our travel day wasn’t bad at all! I worked that [...]

Hark the fitness angels sing…the 2024 Christmas Crusher is HERE! This festive annual tradition is in its 11th year which is so hard to believe! To be honest, I was going to retire the Christmas Crusher after a strong 10 year run but one of my longtime clients shared it’s something she looks forward to [...]

I ran a half marathon on Saturday! (That I signed up for on Friday afternoon – I love a go-time race decision.) HUNTERSVILLE HALF MARATHON I ran the Huntersville Half Marathon for the first time and it was a great race! I’d had this race on my radar since before the Every Woman’s Marathon but [...]

Happiest of Fridays to you! We are fully in the holiday spirit over here and it’s a year of firsts when it comes to the Christmas tree. This was my first time ever getting a tree from a Christmas tree farm! I had real trees for 34 years of my life but they always came [...]

I am 16 days post-marathon (race recap here) and other than a bruised right toenail whose healing status is questionable, I’m in good shape! I feel fully recovered and ready to start ramping up the intensity of strength training sessions and rebuilding running mileage. Before we get too far away from marathon weekend, I wanted [...]

I ran the inaugural Every Woman’s Marathon in Savannah, Georgia on Saturday, November 16. It was an incredible experience and I’m so excited to share it with you. Not only did I have a magical race day where all the pieces of the puzzle came together perfectly for a PR and my best feeling marathon [...]

After 16 long but rewarding weeks of training – marathon week is HERE! I leave for Savannah on Thursday afternoon, have expo events and a dinner on Friday and we line up for the Every Woman’s Marathon on Saturday. I cannot wait! I grew up less than two hours from Savannah but haven’t spent much [...]

What a long, wild week it’s been. I am a little on the emotionally wrung out side. I hope you’re able to take a big exhale on this Friday and make some space for self-care, family time, friends, movement, baking, nature (whatever you need!!) this weekend. I was chatting with my yoga class yesterday about [...]

Greetings from Florida! Finn has teacher workdays this Monday/Tuesday so we decided to pop down here to visit for an extended weekend. I’ll share a full recap once we’re home but in the meantime I have tons of recent eats for ya! BREAKFAST Vanilla yogurt, homemade granola, blackberries, blueberries and peanut butter. Protein smoothie + [...]

I made a Trader Joe’s run last Sunday and it was my first time there since August. Sadly, Trader Joe’s is just not convenient in my day-to-day grocery rotation. I was long overdue a visit to check out my fall faves – and very sad that I missed the short window where their delicious Autumnal [...]

I love the weekend before Halloween. There are an abundance of fall-themed activities, the weather is gorgeous and the neighborhood decorations and fun and festive. Finn and I made the most of this past weekend and hit the pumpkin patch, participated in a costume 5K, trunk or treated and Finn went to the Renaissance Festival. [...]

Hi and hello! There is so much to catch up on from the last couple of weeks. 48 HOURS IN PITTSBURGH Last weekend I traveled to Pittsburgh to visit my friend Lina. We met in yoga teacher training back in 2011 and became fast friends. She moved to Brussels, Belgium (and I was able to [...]

Happy Friday! My exciting news is that fall weather has finally arrived in North Carolina and it’s making all of my running dreams come true. After four months of running through hot temps and high humidity, I want to cry over how light, crisp and cool the air feels. It’s unbelievable the difference it makes [...]

Hi friends – the last 10 days in North Carolina have been hard and sad as our state has navigated the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. It’s been heartbreaking to watch our Western North Carolina neighbors face truly unimaginable devastation and loss. It’s also been disheartening to witness the amount of divisive political rhetoric that is [...]

What a wild, crazy and heartbreaking few days it’s been in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene brought high winds, heavy rains and record historic floods to our state. While we are mostly okay in Charlotte with the exception of downed trees and multi-day power outages, our neighbors to the west did not fare well at all. [...]

I have never really been the type to wear matching workout sets…until recently! The last couple of years I have gotten into the matching set trend. I like feeling more put together at the gym – especially since I have gone back to personal training and spend so much time at the gym with my [...]

TGIF! I’ve got a big round up of meals for today’s post. I’m diving into my current vanilla yogurt obsession, sharing lots of delicious salad combos (per usual) and you’ll see a whole lot of sweet potatoes in my dinners. Not sure why I’ve been eating so many of them but yum! Maybe all the [...]