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Laguna Beach Date Night

Laguna Beach Date Night

Henri leaves for a two month job on January 15th and the countdown is officially on until his trip! After a pretty lazy and relaxing Christmas break I wanted to squeeze in a fun date night or two before he heads out. For one of …

Happy New Year, Here’s to 2016!!!

Happy New Year, Here’s to 2016!!!

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season, a very Merry Christmas and a fun New Years celebration last night. Our holidays were nice and low key – no traveling for us this year which was nice but I sure did …

Thanksgiving Weekend & Christmas Tree Shopping

Thanksgiving Weekend & Christmas Tree Shopping

Hi there! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and first “Christmas weekend”. Ours was busy in the best possible way! Thanksgiving morning Henri and I were up bright and early to meet his sister at the Plymouth Rock ‘n Roll Turkey Trot in Anaheim. The race started …

10 Things Tuesday

10 Things Tuesday

Hello there! Happy Tuesday – I hope your week is going well so far. Mine has been relaxing in the mornings and busy in the afternoons/evenings. That isn’t usually my normal speed but I’m starting to get used to it.  Grad school got pretty busy …

Coffee Date Catch Up

Coffee Date Catch Up

Well hello there! I feel like this blog has turned into my middle school diary in which nearly every entry would start with “sorry it’s been so long since the last time I wrote”. I promise I’ll get back on track soon but for now, …

Training Summary: 9/28/2015-10/4/2015

Training Summary: 9/28/2015-10/4/2015

Hi there! Hope you’re having a great Sunday so far! Mine has been busy in the best of ways – I was up at 5am to drive into LA for an 8K race (more on that later), grabbed coffee at my favorite shop, went to …

The Best News & A Denver Weekend

The Best News & A Denver Weekend

The BEST thing happened yesterday – two of my favorite folks got ENGAGED!! Court and I go wayyyy back to middle school XC and even ran Chicago together last year! I’m so excited for her and Matt and think I speak for everyone when I …

Training Summary: 9/21/2015-9/27/2015

Training Summary: 9/21/2015-9/27/2015

Hello from beautiful and warm Denver, CO! I’m enjoying my weekend with my sister and brother-in-law and can’t believe I’m heading back to Cali tonight!! I thought I’d pop in with a quick summary of my training this past week!  Enjoy the last little bit …

It’s Friday….

It’s Friday….

[Friday, Friday, Friday OH!!] …. and I can’t for the life of me get Rebecca Black out of my head! Talk about a Friday flashback!  Anyyyyyways – the reason I can’t help but be so excited for the weekend is that after practice tonight I’m …

Mile Repeats + I think we need a farm

Mile Repeats + I think we need a farm

Tuesday morning I woke up feeling like a million bucks – so after teaching bootcamp at the gym I headed to one of my favorite state parks to knock out some mile repeats! I had 4x 1 mile on the schedule so after a 2 …