As has become our Saturday morning tradition lately, Michelle & I meet up at the gym for Body Pump at 9, work ourselves into a sweat, by 9:30 feel like we’re going to fall over in a dead heap, and then at 10 put away our weights, bar, mat, step, and risers and head over […]

I’ll huff…and I’ll puff…and I will run 5 miles. Believe me, it was not a joy run by any means, but I was shocked to find that when I finished, I had maintained my normal average pace (9’40″/mile) even in a much longer distance. That put a smile on my face! I sort of can’t […]

Tonight ESPN is airing the Parkersburg football game. Ever since the football coach was shot earlier this year, I told Kevin that this is movie-making material. I am not trying to be humorous about the coach’s death at all (it was a tragedy for sure) or the tornado that demolished the town last year, but […]

Today Kevin came up with the [great] idea of going to the Palisades-Kepler State Park and taking a hike on a trail. The weather was absolutely gorgeous! Neither of us have ever been to this state park before so we didn’t know where the trails were or what to expect. (Also, I should’ve printed out […]

The start of the day was great (Body Pump, then coffee, then farmer’s market; all with my friend Michelle). The middle of the day was el-sucko. The end of the day, great!!! Paula Radcliffe found another reason to congratulate me! Since I did Body Pump this morning (which was a killer, by the way…worse than […]

Last night Kevin & I went miniature golfing. I had spotted a cool-looking golf course one day and we decided to check it out. It did turn out to be very cool and also very fun. We were both pretty competitive, but I ended up losing. Sad day in my golf book. After making fun […]