Hi friends. Happy Friday. I got home from Florida, wrote my recap post, blinked and somehow it’s 11 days later. Life has been full in both wonderful and stressful ways. I’m writing this post from the air – I’m en route to a weekend skiing adventure in Utah. After a three-hour delay in Charlotte for [...]
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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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These Shoes Were Made For…Walking, Running, Lifting
November 9, 2022 { 4 comments }Today I am here to talk shoes. Lifting shoes, casual shoes, running shoes, boots – I’ve got a little bit of everything for you! Never in my life have I appreciated comfortable and functional shoes the way I do since becoming a mom. I think this is also in relation to getting older and caring [...]
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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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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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Reader Q&A: Running in the dark, how to structure an efficient workout week, balancing yoga and other exercise
October 26, 2017 { 4 comments }It’s time for another round of reader Q and A’s! Every couple of months I like to do a round up of questions I’ve been asked recently and answer them in a blog post because I feel like many of the questions/answers are relevant for a lot of you! Hi Jen! I am trying to [...]
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A Look Behind the Curtain on Running a Small Business with my Partner + Friday Randoms
October 13, 2017 { 8 comments }Happy Friday friends. I didn’t mean to pull a disappearing act this week but after I published my 200-hour yoga teacher training post on Tuesday night, I just hit a wall. I wasn’t crazy busy this week or sick or anything…just lacking inspiration/creative flow. Sometimes I find it useful to “power through” these times but [...]
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Weekend: Summer TT Weekend One + Summer Running + Summer Fun
June 12, 2017 { 22 comments }Hey, hey! I’m in the midst of the pre-trip crazies. Lots to accomplish in a short amount of time. I’ve probably tried on 50 pairs of casual shoes and have yet to find my match. I’m going to head out and look again in a little bit here and I have some Birkenstocks being delivered [...]
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Boston Strong + Running Wishes + Weekly Workouts + Playlist
April 17, 2017 { 24 comments }It’s Marathon Monday! I was watching a video of the elite women taking off at the starting line and I thought to myself, “I’m pretty sure that’s what I think I look like taking off for a 5K.” I can’t even imagine going out of the gate like that for a marathon. Incredible athleticism and [...]
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Air quality and running + Race medals + Facebook community invite
November 16, 2016 { 20 comments }Over 30 counties in North Carolina are experiencing drought conditions and there are terrible wildfires burning in the mountains with over 44,000 acres burned so far. (source) We woke up this morning to a very hazy skyline here in Charlotte and the smell of smoke hanging in the air. As of today, we are under [...]
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Dogs on the Run
June 3, 2010 { 3 comments }I received a Facebook message today from an old friend asking about running with her dog, Cooper. She’s having problems with other neighborhood dogs chasing/following her and Cooper. I was thinking about this on my run with Sullie today and thought that it might be beneficial for some readers if I talked about 1) running [...]
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Favorite Posts
November 14, 2010 { 5 comments }Get To Know Me The ABCs of Jen A Year’s Journey What Makes You Feel Alive? Who Are You? PBR Celebrates One Year (video post) FAQ Friday – answering some commonly asked questions Food Philosophy My 7 Links – links to some of my favorite posts 11 Useless Facts About Me Living a Happy, Fulfilled [...]
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Week In The Life + Work Changes
March 30, 2025 { 2 comments }Happy weekend. I’m enjoying a slow and relaxing start to my Sunday which is such a nice contrast to the rest of the week where I’m hustling from the time my eyes open. I’m almost through a pot of coffee, windows are open and music is playing in the background. I just finished programming the [...]
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Life Lately: Kicking Off 2025
January 11, 2025 { 4 comments }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, [...]
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Five Days In Florida + Early Thanksgiving
November 8, 2024 { 10 comments }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 [...]
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Weekend: 15 Mile Long Run + South Mountains State Park Hike
September 9, 2024 { 7 comments }Happy new week! I am in recovery mode after an active (and amazing!) weekend that included a 15 mile long run on Saturday and a 14 mile hike on Sunday. I spent a lot of QT with the foam roller this morning and also did a bit of yoga after I taught today. Overall, my [...]
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2024 Around The Crown 10K Race Recap
September 1, 2024 { 2 comments }Whew! Finn and I ran our third Around The Crown 10K this morning and a fun, sweaty time was had by all! AROUND THE CROWN 10K IN CHARLOTTE, NC I’ve said it (many times) before and I’ll say it again – the Around The Crown 10K is my favorite Charlotte race. You absolutely cannot beat [...]
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Life Lately: My Dad’s Visit, Marathon Training, Mom Life + More
August 9, 2024 { 2 comments }Hi and happy Friday. We are drying out from all the rain that Debby dumped on us. It’s been a cloudy and wet week. The grey weather didn’t get me down though because I had an exciting visitor – my dad! While my mom comes to Charlotte a lot and Finn and I make regular [...]
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Emerald Coast Beach Week
May 31, 2024 { 0 comments }Happy Friday friends! We arrived back in Charlotte on Wednesday after the most wonderful beach week in Florida with my fam. I jumped right back into the regular routine and in the last two days I have taught two yoga classes and trained nine clients. Scheduling our week away from Wednesday-Wednesday allowed me to see [...]
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Life Lately: Fallen Trees, Finn’s 6th Birthday + Mother’s Day
May 20, 2024 { 1 comment }Well friends. While once a week post frequency isn’t out of the norm for me these days, I certainly didn’t mean to drop off the grid for 12 days. When you last heard from me my mom was due to arrive in Charlotte that day to stay with us for a week and things got [...]
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Monday Life Chat
April 15, 2024 { 2 comments }Happy new week my friends! It’s a gorgeous morning in Charlotte so I’m treating myself to a patio laptop session at Amelie’s with a half-caf latte (1 shot decaf espresso, 1 shot regular) with whole milk + a strawberry cheesecake tart that I’ll save for dessert tonight. I just wrapped up training clients at the [...]
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February Walking Challenge Recap + 2 Weeks of Workouts
March 4, 2024 { 1 comment }Happy Monday and happy March! It’s hard to believe that we’re already four days into this fresh new month. Before we get too much farther in – I want to backtrack to February to give y’all a recap on my February Walking Challenge. FEBRUARY WALKING CHALLENGE RECAP Let’s start with the data first and then [...]
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Life Lately
January 31, 2024 { 10 comments }Well, I was supposed to be writing this post from my grandmother’s couch in Florida but as seems often be the case with all things in life…the plan changed. I picked Finn up from school today and instead of heading to the airport, we headed home. The moment I laid eyes on him, I knew [...]
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A Birthday Golden Girl
October 6, 2023 { 4 comments }It’s a special Friday for us! We are celebrating Zoey’s 9th birthday! While it does feel like Zoey has been with me for a long time, it’s hard to believe that she’s actually nine. Zoey is still spunky, active and playful. While she might not be up for chasing the ball like she did in [...]
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Life Lately: Welcome October!
October 2, 2023 { 0 comments }Happy October! I hope this new month is off to a great start for you. For me, October always kicks off what feels like three months of holiday celebrations with Halloween in October, Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December. I love all of the decorating and festivities. We have had a great time decorating [...]
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All The Eats
September 23, 2023 { 1 comment }Hi friends! I’ve had a great first day of fall and I hope it’s the start of a season of growth, goals and FUN! I am feeling a pull to sit down and write down my fall intentions when it comes to everything from career goals to personal growth to bucket list items that I [...]
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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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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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Wednesday in the Life
June 29, 2023 { 0 comments }It’s been a minute since I wrote a day in the life style of post. In this post I am sharing a detailed recap of what my Wednesday looked like from start to finish. It was a long and very full day – but a good day and an accurate depiction of a day of [...]
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Listening, Reading, Watching
May 22, 2023 { 6 comments }Happy new week – I hope it’s off to a great start! I don’t have much to report from the weekend. Finn was with his dad so I did a lot of land lording, working and yoga. I also squeezed in some long walks with these two cuties. A friend moved into my rental house [...]
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Random Life Lately
April 25, 2023 { 4 comments }Goodness gracious – Tuesdays are becoming quite the marathon day. I started at 7a and I’m sitting on the couch at 8:45p still going…but I’m here for it. I trained five clients and taught a yoga class today. I also worked on my app and drafted a blog post for a partnership. I try to [...]
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A Mini Day In The Life + Life Last Weekend
April 18, 2023 { 1 comment }Oh what a Tuesday it was. I slept horrendously last night and found myself up and at ’em at 4:30a listening to a podcast and cleaning my house. I knew I didn’t have the mental bandwidth to work on the computer but I did feel motivated to get my space tidy. I left for the gym [...]
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This + That
March 22, 2023 { 2 comments }Good morning and happy Wednesday! Hope you guys are having a great week. I’m writing this post on a break between personal training clients. I started at 6a this morning and can confidently say that I’m finally back in the groove of 5a wake up calls. It took a couple of months to get used [...]
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A Week In The Life
March 19, 2023 { 7 comments }Hi sweet friends. I’m doing some late night writing on a Saturday. The house is quiet, I just made a cup of tea (Trader Joe’s Well Rested) and I don’t feel like turning on the TV. I’ve been wanting to check in here all week but life has been (the good kind of) hectic so [...]
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Yay for Daylight
March 12, 2023 { 5 comments }I hope y’all had a good weekend. Mine had a pretty solid adulting feel to it but I did make time for rest and fun. The overarching theme of my weekend was…MULCH. Hard to show the scale of gigantic pile of mulch through a photo but it was 10 yards of mulch and came in [...]
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7 Friday Favorites
February 17, 2023 { 11 comments }TGIF! I am rolling into the weekend with my sidekick in tow. I picked Finn up around noon today and we spent the afternoon walking/scooting with the pups, baking cookies, prepping sourdough (aka “mommy bread”) for baking tomorrow morning and laughing our faces off at ridiculous SnapChat filters. Keeping it extra light on this Friday [...]
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A Week In The Life
January 27, 2023 { 22 comments }Happy Friday y’all! I don’t even know where the week went but somehow I made it to the end of it and am writing this post from my hotel room in Harrisburg, PA. Flight schedules were such that I got in late morning but I don’t teach until 6p tonight. Luckily, I was able to [...]
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Weekend: Opera Carolina, Sleepy Poet, Discovery Place and More!
January 23, 2023 { 1 comment }Morning and happy new week! I got everything ready to write this post on Sunday night but found myself falling asleep as I was putting Finn down to bed. I decided a very early bedtime was in order and that I’d get up early and write this post on Monday morning – so here we [...]
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First Few Days of 2023 + Recent Eats
January 3, 2023 { 7 comments }Hi, hello and I hope the new year is off to a great start for y’all. My new year had a very STRESSFUL start thanks to the Georgia/Ohio State game. My heart was legit racing through the final quarter of that game. I thought there was no chance we were coming out on top and [...]
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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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Life Lately: Getting Into The Holiday Spirit
November 28, 2022 { 10 comments }I hope your Monday was a good one – especially if you were coming off of an extended holiday weekend. I had a really solid day that included preschool drop off, lifting at the gym, teaching yoga, preschool pickup, yard work, lots of Play-Doh, holiday decorating, computer work and now I’m watching the Holiday Baking [...]
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Giving Thanks
November 24, 2022 { 11 comments }Hello and happy Thanksgiving! I am sitting with my grandmother watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Finn is with his dad for Thanksgiving. I dropped him off at preschool Tuesday morning all decked out in a tie-dye shirt that he made with his class. They all wore them to school on Tuesday and had a [...]
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A Glory-ous Weekend
November 7, 2022 { 6 comments }Hi, hi. I hope that your weekend was a good one and Monday was kind to you. We are trying our best to adjust to the time change and early darkness. Finn put himself to bed on Sunday night – went upstairs on his own, put on his PJs, picked out his books and informed [...]
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A Frightfully Fun Weekend
November 1, 2022 { 2 comments }I’m sitting in my office working with the window open. It’s 67 degrees, the skies are blue and the trees have gorgeous fall color. The dogs are romping around in the backyard while the leaves flutter down and I feel a deep sense of contentment. I had a wonderful Halloween weekend with Finn. He is [...]
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Hanging Around + The Schiele Museum Review
October 20, 2022 { 3 comments }Gosh, it’s hard to believe that we are more than halfway through October. I know it’s a bit cliche to talk about the passage of time but this time of year – and this season of life – seem to be moving at warp speed. Last weekend I caught myself in a mental spiral of [...]
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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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A Sweet Week
July 15, 2022 { 5 comments }Hi there. It’s been a solidly good week over here. I got to spend a lot of quality time with Finn, taught some yoga, hung out with my best girlfriends and was fairly productive with work. I have a week’s worth of photos to share of what it all looked like. A trip to the [...]
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Day By Day
June 27, 2022 { 10 comments }I don’t really have the words to write a compelling introduction to this post at the moment. Instead, I’m going to let the photos and the experiences from a well-spent weekend with my sweet boy create the narrative. I will give you this reading that I shared with my yoga class this morning as I [...]
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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 [...]
