Two Christmas' ago, I walked into TJ Maxx in Florida and picked up a pair of running shoes and some workout clothes. At the time, I was just planning to go for a run or two while we were on vacation since Mackenzie's sleeping schedule was all kinds of crazy from the...
I've now officially been running for a little over 4 months -- and for those who are already runners, you know that once you start, you either love it or you hate. It's not that you love running WHILE you're running, and especially not when you get up at 6am to go...
As you have probably heard by now, I recently became a running junkie. It all started rather innocently, when my dear husband suggested we run the Berlin Marathon in 2013. Together. Which was kinda funny at the time because I don't run. Ever. In fact, I thought I...
Yesterday, the last day of 2012, was the 37th Berliner Silvesterlauf aka "Der Pfannkuchenlauf“. This New Year's Eve run was hosted by SCC Events (as was the cross country run) and it was an interesting one (to say the least.) This is what the 9.9km track looked like:...
Berlin is an awesome place, literally 50 yards from where semi awesome have been rock stars (like the Pet Shop Boys) performed last night for the big new year's celebration the 42. Berlin Neujahrslauf took place this morning. Well, not really morning per se, rather a...
Yesterday was the last day of the year 2012 and it ended with a wonderful 10k race in the outskirts of Berlin on the infamous Teufelsberg. This mountain is an oddity in the otherwise flat as a pancake city of Berlin. In fact, it is the cities highest mountain and has...
Running has become a popular form of fitness activity all across the globe. It's probably no huge surprise since it's easy to get started, you don't need a lot of equipment to keep going and it's a fantastic way to get in shape. But along with its gain in popularity,...
I'm off to Paris this morning for just over 2 days for the LeWeb conference and, as luck would have it, I'm supposed to be running 6.5km on one of those days. You may have been wondering, but our running plans have been going quite well. I have to get back on the ball...
If someone told me 11 weeks ago that I would soon be running 10km in my free time and not actually dying afterward, I would have scoffed. In fact, I might have even laughed in their face. But yet, yesterday, that's exactly what we did. Although I haven't posted much...
Recently I spent a few days in Frankfurt a. Main on a trip to the "west" of Germany. Thankfully my hotel was close to the shores of the river Main which has running paths, uninterrupted by traffic lights for miles, along both sides. In fact, this stretch of asphalt is...
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