Hello my friends. I am sitting down to write this post by Christmas tree light. I think this is the earliest that I have ever put up my tree but it worked best from a timing/logistics standpoint. We are traveling for Thanksgiving and won’t get back until the Monday after. Finn will be with his [...]
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Double Digits + Karaoke
October 16, 2023 { 1 comment }Hello and I hope that your week is off to a great start. I am doing something very out of my normal routine – writing this post from a coffee shop. I almost always work from home but it was most efficient for me to stop into a coffee shop to do some work in [...]
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Week In The Life: Working, Momming, Running + More
October 13, 2023 { 2 comments }Happy Friday everyone. I’m enjoying some pre-dawn quiet time with my laptop and a cup of coffee. I got up at 5a this morning to do some writing and computer work because once the sun is up, Finn is up and the day kicks off – it’s going to be go, go, go! I am [...]
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Lake Norman 15K Race Recap
October 8, 2023 { 1 comment }I ran the Novant Health Lake Norman 15K this morning on a whim and had a very unexpectedly AMAZING race! LAKE NORMAN 15K I have been very casually training for the Charlotte Half Marathon on November 4. I have run 6, 7 and 8 mile long runs and done a lot of 4-5 mile runs. [...]
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Weekend Things + Bubble Magic + Long Run
September 18, 2023 { 5 comments }Happy Monday evening. I have my first pot of soup of the season simmering on the stove and it smells divine – I cannot wait to ladle up a big bowl. If it’s as good as I think it’s going to be, look for the recipe soon! I am feeling like a little bit of [...]
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Ready for Fall + House Things + Athletic Endeavors
September 14, 2023 { 7 comments }Hi friends. Hope it’s been a great week for you. Well, I caved this week and started to embrace fall. I bought a jar of pumpkin butternut squash sauce at ALDI and cooked my first fall-themed dinner. I also picked up some pumpkin-themed items from ALDI’s Special Buys section – how cute is the doormat? [...]
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2023 Around the Crown 10K Race Recap
September 10, 2023 { 1 comment }Finn and I ran our second Around the Crown 10K on Sunday, September 3 and we had SO MUCH FUN! It’s official – Around the Crown has dethroned the Charlotte Marathon for my favorite local race event. The course is incredible, the organization is top-notch and the expo is amazing! Here’s a full recap of [...]
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Sweet Summertime + Life Lately + Running Thoughts
August 24, 2023 { 3 comments }Hi, hello. I hope it’s been a great week for you. I’ve been keeping very busy with work but also trying to make the most of the last few weeks of summer before school starts back and we tighten up the routine. Here’s a visual representation of our mindset lately, haha. Evening swims and lax [...]
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We Are Overdue A Catch Up
August 4, 2023 { 8 comments }Well, hello. Happy Friday, happy August, happy all the things. I’ve been so MIA from the blog space lately. I’ve had photos for this post edited for a week but I just keep adding to the library and not finding the time to sit down and write a post. Life is full this summer in [...]
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Happy New Week + Last Week’s Workouts
June 19, 2023 { 0 comments }Hello and happy new week. It’s been a week since you’ve heard from me and all the things have happened in said week. I trained a bunch of clients, taught yoga, completed a few collaborations, had yoga teacher training and celebrated a birthday. Finn hiked 12,000 steps with his nanny and took on Crowders Mountain. [...]
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Let’s Catch Up + Last Week’s Workouts
February 13, 2023 { 3 comments }How are we feeling about the Super Bowl last night? I have to tell you that the only part of it I watched was Rihanna’s halftime performance but I thought she crushed it. I liked the mix hit songs – and that she kept the performance relatively understated in comparison to other performers in recent [...]
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2 Weeks of Workouts + Exciting Fitness Updates
December 6, 2022 { 6 comments }Hi friends! I hope your week is off to a great start. Back in the olden days of blogging I used to regularly share a recap of my weekly workouts. I abandoned that sometime around pregnancy and becoming a mom but every now and then I like to share a current picture of my workout [...]
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Before + After, Then + Now
September 13, 2022 { 5 comments }I so enjoyed your comments on my last post and hearing about what you’ve been reading, what’s on your to read list and your thoughts on Verity. My two biggest takeaways are that I am 99% sure I’m skipping Verity and I’m going to listen to Crying In H-Mart on audio! A few “life lately” [...]
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The Weekend I Needed
August 21, 2022 { 4 comments }Hello, hello. I am logging on for a quick weekend recap. It was nothing special but exactly what I needed it to be. The first update I owe you is on the baby birds. One of my blog readers referred me to Carolina Waterfowl Rescue and I was so grateful discover this amazing resource in [...]
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Hit the Brixx 10K Recap + My Weekend
May 23, 2022 { 5 comments }Happy Monday! I woke up early so I’m getting a little bit of work done and knocking out my weekend recap before Finn is up for the day. FRIDAY I had Finn with me on Friday morning before he left to spent the weekend with his dad. We hung out at home, watched some shows [...]
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Week In The Life
March 18, 2022 { 9 comments }We made it to the weekend! I hope you all have a fun and/or relaxing weekend planned. Finn and I will be heading to Durham bright and early tomorrow morning to visit my parents. It will be Finn’s first time seeing them since we visited in October and went to the N.C. State Fair. We [...]
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The Race That Wasn’t Run
November 16, 2021 { 10 comments }Happy Tuesday. I hope your week is off to a great start. I walked downstairs this morning wearing my UGA hoodie with the hood up so Finn decided he was going to wear his the same way to preschool. He got out of carpool with his backpack on and hood up and it was the [...]
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Around the Crown 10K Race Recap + Review
September 10, 2021 { 1 comment }Last Sunday I ran the Around the Crown 10K here in Charlotte. It was my first race since the start of the pandemic and it was an amazing feeling to pin on a bib and experience race day energy again. I sure have missed it a lot. I wanted to write a full race recap [...]
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Summer Running Essentials
July 1, 2021 { 10 comments }It’s July 1 and it’s safe to say that we are in the thick of summer running. Here in the south, temperatures have been around 90 degrees every day but the real killer is the humidity. All three of my runs this week have been 80+ degrees and 80% humidity. Talk about sweaty! I literally [...]
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15 Running Questions for Global Running Day
June 2, 2021 { 4 comments }Happy Global Running Day! It’s hard to believe that I have been running for 20 years this year! I started running the spring of my senior year of high school because I had to run a timed mile as part of college cheerleading tryouts. While college cheerleading only lasted one semester, running stuck and it’s [...]
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Sharing the lululemon Love with My Dad: Our Favorite Running + Walking Gear
May 26, 2021 { 19 comments }This post is sponsored by lululemon and ShopStyle. My history with lululemon runs deep. I was asked to be an ambassador back in 2010 when I was new to teaching group exercise in Charlotte and lululemon was opening their first showroom in our city. I ended up serving as an ambassador for over three years [...]
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Habit Stacking + Weekend in Winston
April 19, 2021 { 15 comments }Happy, happy Monday! I’ve been listening to the book Atomic Habits on Audible and this morning on my run I realized that I was putting the principles of the book in action. I slept hard last night and when I woke up this morning I felt tired and thought to myself, “there is no way [...]
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Monday In The Life: Toddler Bedtime, Brooks Hyperion, Breast Health + More
April 12, 2021 { 15 comments }Buckle up for a day in the life Monday. Actually, I want to rewind to Sunday night to start this post. My sweet boy is in a phase right now where he doesn’t want to go to sleep in his bed and wants to sleep in “mommy’s bed.” I put him down in his room [...]
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Saturday Randomness: Spring, Running, Hair, A Birthday + More
April 10, 2021 { 31 comments }I am popping in with a quick dose of Saturday randomness before I head out to film a few classes for Fit Revolution. REMINDER: use code PBEASTER to get 50% off of your first three months! And that’s AFTER you get your 14-day free trial so it comes out to well under $10/month. The code [...]
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Injury Prevention: Recovery Tips + 5 Great Yoga Poses for Runners
March 2, 2021 { 11 comments }This is the third in a series of posts about preventing injuries for athletes. The first was about dynamic stretching for injury prevention , the second was about building core strength for injury prevention and today’s post is about recovery tips and my favorite yoga poses for runners. Did you know that I actually got [...]
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Injury Prevention: 5 Core Exercises for Runners
February 10, 2021 { 4 comments }This is the second in a series of posts about running and injury prevention. The first was about dynamic stretches to do before you run for injury prevention and today’s post is about core exercises for runners. Having “core strength” and “building a strong core” are phrases that you commonly hear in the fitness industry, [...]
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5 Tips for Balancing Running, Strength Training and Yoga In Your Weekly Workout Schedule
January 13, 2021 { 54 comments }One question that I have received consistently over the 10+ years that I’ve been blogging and posting on social media is how to balance running, strength training and yoga in a weekly workout schedule. Just yesterday, I received this question on Instagram… “How would you recommend balancing a schedule of yoga, running and strength? How [...]
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Weekend Adventures with Catboy
November 1, 2020 { 3 comments }I hope that the first day of November and the time change are treating you well. I saw a funny meme online last week that said something to the effect of “the last thing we need is an extra hour of 2020.” Hopefully most of us spent that extra hour sleeping! :) It’s been a [...]
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5 Dynamic Stretches You Should Do Before Every Run to Prevent Injuries
October 12, 2020 { 15 comments }Most of you know that I have a very storied past with running and injuries. In my early days of running in college and the years following, I battled everything from bursitis to Achilles tendonitis to foot pain to a hamstring injury to hip pain and more. It was so frustrating that at one point [...]
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How to Strengthen + Stretch to Improve Your Running Posture
September 28, 2020 { 2 comments }This post is sponsored by Zappos. I’m here today to talk about how strengthening your upper back and stretching your chest and shoulders can help to improve your running posture. Even if you are not a runner, these exercises and stretches are beneficial for anyone desiring improved posture. (Brooks Dare Strappy Bra, Brooks Greenlight 9″ [...]
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Hello Fall
September 22, 2020 { 6 comments }Happy first day of fall. I am here for it feeling full of gratitude for the change of seasons and the incredible weather that we are being spoiled with. I have been sitting outside working for three hours and I plan to eat dinner outside tonight too. It’s 70 degrees and 46% humidity the sky [...]
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Getting Myself Moving + Recent Eats
July 4, 2020 { 7 comments }Finn is with his dad this on this Fourth of July weekend and it is the first weekend since March that I haven’t had yoga teacher training (taking modules for my 300-hour or teaching a 200-hour) when I don’t have Finn. I love taking and teaching YTT, and it’s been especially helpful in recent months [...]
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How to Break Out of a Running Rut
February 24, 2020 { 5 comments }This post is sponsored by Zappos. I received the following message from a client recently and I wanted to write a post about it ever since because I know she’s not alone. “I need inspiration. Here is how I feel about running: I used to LOVE it, now it scares me. I don’t know what [...]
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How Mindfulness Changed My Relationship With Running
January 24, 2020 { 0 comments }In this post I am sharing about my history with running and how mindfulness changed my relationship with running by helping me to truly connect with my body and end the constant injury cycle that I was in. I HOW I STARTED RUNNING I started running in college as a way to stay fit and [...]
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Falling For Fall
November 18, 2019 { 8 comments }Last weekend was so cozy and felt very fall. After traveling almost every weekend for the last couple of months, it was a treat to be in Charlotte, and to have Finn with me. I am really loving fall this year…the cool weather, the colors, the food, the comfy clothes…all of it! We soaked up [...]
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Dog Feelings
October 24, 2019 { 5 comments }Fellow dog lovers, I am here to brighten up your Thursday! This week, I was introduced to the amazingness that is the “Thoughts of Dog” Twitter and Instagram. I started following this account on Instagram a few days ago and it has made me laugh out loud. It started as a Twitter account and they’re [...]
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The Great Stroller Running Post
October 20, 2019 { 7 comments }This post is sponsored by Zappos. I am not exaggerating when I say that I might not have made it through the first year of motherhood without a jogging stroller and a pair of running shoes. I truly wish I had a log of how many miles I’ve covered with Finn in this stroller but [...]
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Friday I’m In Love
October 11, 2019 { 9 comments }I hope this finds you enjoying your Friday. I am checking in with a quick Friday favorites round-up before I hit the road for Asheville for the first weekend of my 300-hour yoga teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center! The very first favorite that I want to share is that Zoey is 100% okay. She’s [...]
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Not The Weekend I Had Planned
July 20, 2019 { 49 comments }Oh friends…what a wild few days. If you follow me on Instagram, you are probably already in the know about what’s been going on but let me bring everyone up to speed. On Wednesday night I shared that I had dropped a very heavy metal and glass shower door on my left big toe earlier [...]
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Global Running Day + Update on 2019 Running Goals + My Favorite Running Shoes (with a giveaway!)
June 5, 2019 { 303 comments }Happy Global Running Day! Who’s celebrating with a run? Scott Broome Photography I thought that Global Running Day would be a great time to update you guys on the 2019 running goals that I shared back in December, especially now that we’re almost halfway through 2019 (what!?). Here they are, along with commentary on where [...]
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Getting it Together
June 2, 2019 { 7 comments }The last month or so has felt a little “fly by the seat of my pants” which I’ve pulled off but it’s caused some unnecessary stress. So this weekend I’ve really spent some time getting myself organized in areas ranging from my calendar and commitments to my budget to my meal prep and plan. This [...]
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Self-Love Slow Power Flow + Falling in Love with FAGE
May 30, 2019 { 3 comments }This post is sponsored by FAGE, however all thoughts and opinions are my own. During the first weekend of the 200-hour yoga teacher training that I am leading this spring/summer, we spent time sharing how we got started with yoga and what “hooked” us. I always enjoy hearing all of the various ways that people [...]
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Hello from Hershey
March 29, 2019 { 5 comments }Happy weekend friends. I hope the week was kind and that you are feeling some ease going into the weekend. I am back in Hershey, Pennsylvania for a weekend of yoga. I was here in January to lead a teacher training weekend for Studio B Power Yoga and I’m back to lead a workshop weekend [...]
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You are a Runner + Slow Weekend
February 25, 2019 { 19 comments }Hi there. I hope your week is off to a very good start. I enjoyed a rather slow start to the week after also having a slow weekend. I met a girlfriend for a run this morning. We were both pushing strollers and our route was super hilly so our pace was slow (we both [...]
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Hot Chocolate 15K Race Recap
January 20, 2019 { 6 comments }I’m sipping my Sunday morning coffee with sore calves and hamstrings after yesterday’s Hot Chocolate 15K. The 9.3 mile race was my longest run since I ran the Charlotte Half Marathon at 14 weeks pregnant back in November 2017! Taking that into consideration, I couldn’t believe how good I felt during the race and how [...]
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My 2019 Running Goals
December 27, 2018 { 14 comments }This post is sponsored by Zappos. I have run less miles in 2018 than I have in any other single year since I started running in college. Following the guidance of my OBGYN, I took most of the third trimester off of running. And then after being cleared to run six weeks after Finn’s birth, [...]
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2018 Charlotte Marathon Relay Race Recap – Stroller Moms!
November 7, 2018 { 7 comments }My sixth running of the Novant Health Charlotte Marathon was my most memorable yet as I joined a team of four other moms pushing strollers to complete the marathon relay. I have run the half marathon five times and this year was my first time participating in the marathon relay. It was a wonderful experience [...]
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My First Wanderlust 108
October 8, 2018 { 12 comments }Wanderlust 108 is a “mindful triathlon” that includes running, yoga and meditation. The events are held across the US and all over the world. I was so excited to be asked to be the run lead for the Toronto and Cincinnati events this year. Unfortunately, I had to cancel Toronto at the last minute due [...]
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Zero2Run 5K & 10K Running + Strength Training Plans
September 10, 2018 { 8 comments }I am thrilled to fill you in on the details of a new fitness partnership with Emily Breeze that we are launching TODAY! Welcome to Zero2Run! ZERO2RUN 5K + 10K TRAINING PLANS Photos Eben Patten Our Zero2Run training program will take you from zero to the finish line of a 5 or 10K race in [...]
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What I Ate + How I Worked Out
July 31, 2018 { 7 comments }Many have shared that they liked seeing a full day of eats from start to finish but I know some of you also like the “recent eats” round ups so I’ll try to do a mix of both. My Tuesday got off to an early start when Finn woke up to eat at 4:45 a.m. [...]