Thanks for the great feedback on yesterday’s yoga post. And thanks again to Brittany for the inspiration. :) I really enjoy writing posts that aren’t so “this is what I ate, this is the workout I did today” so it was a fun one for me! Now, back to “this is what I ate.” Ha. [...]
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A Year Older, A Year Closer
June 17, 2012 { 61 comments }My birthday was on Saturday. It was a bit of a weird birthday this year given everything that has happened/changed since my last birthday coupled with the fact that I’m entering the final year of my 20s. I definitely think that I know myself better at 29 than I did at 28. And I don’t [...]
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Simple Saturdays
June 9, 2012 { 13 comments }I had been craving a bagel all week and it was once again the first thing on my mind when I woke up this morning. I decided that Saturday morning bagel and coffee sounded nice so off I went, in all my bed head glory, to pick up a bagel. I got a honey grain [...]
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Tots And Tabata
June 8, 2012 { 13 comments }Happy Friday! It’s been a great day for me so far. The weather in Charlotte has been so beautiful the past few days. Warm but low humidity and cool nights. Wish I had time to enjoy it poolside but for now runs and eating outside will have to suffice. Breakfast was one of my favorite [...]
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All Hail The Grilled Cheese
May 31, 2012 { 21 comments }It’s a grilled cheese for dinner kind of night over here. I was craving simple comfort food after a crazy day. I have had a serious love for grilled cheese sandwiches since high school. My favorite combo used to be just bread, muenster (so stringy!) and butter but I’ve broadened my grilled cheese horizons a [...]
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Pool And Prosecco
May 29, 2012 { 31 comments }I’m back to the grind after a fun and relaxed Memorial Day. I was up and in the office working on the new website at 7 a.m. this morning but being able to take yesterday off and relax was totally worth it. Since I slept through my chance to go to a morning yoga class [...]
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MDW
May 28, 2012 { 24 comments }Happy Memorial Day! I had grand plans of getting up at 7 this morning, blogging, going to yoga, working a bit and then pool partying for the rest of the day. Annnnddd then I slept until 9 a.m. which resulted in missing yoga. Now I’m getting a late start on the blog/work stuff and still [...]
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Eat, Drink And Be Merry
May 24, 2012 { 31 comments }I did something last night that I haven’t done in 10 years. (source – I was not that close to the stage.) I went to a Dave Matthews Band concert. I actually cannot believe that it’s been so long since I’ve seen Dave because to say that I was obsessed in high school would be [...]
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I Wear My Heart On My Sleeve
May 21, 2012 { 31 comments }Hello and happy Monday. I was grumpy for the majority of the day. I finally snapped out of it when I decided to stop working at 4:30 and take my grumpiness out on a hard workout. Lifting heavy things and sweating it out always seems to help. I was kind of annoyed with myself for [...]
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Early Mornings
May 18, 2012 { 19 comments }I have crossed the line into full-out “go mode.” Most people would say that I’m in go mode all of the time due to my seeming inability to slow down and propensity to take on as much as possible. I know that I’ve entered a special state of craziness when I start doing things like [...]
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Cake And Veggies
May 15, 2012 { 15 comments }Hey, hey! I hope everyone had a great day. Things are moving full speed ahead over here and every day I get more and more excited about all the amazing things that are happening at Metro. I know I mention this in pretty much every post but I really love my job and I feel [...]
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Humbled And Redeemed
May 3, 2012 { 16 comments }Fact: I suck at wall balls. And I don’t just mean that they’re hard and I don’t like doing them…I mean that I physically cannot perform them correctly. Rather than an effortless catch/squat/toss, I’m more slam into my chest with straight legs and hurl. It took some serious convincing to get me to do last [...]
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Avocado Overload
May 2, 2012 { 54 comments }Yesterday was a great day. Around 9 a.m. UPS delivered a big heavy box to my doorstep. I opened it to discover more avocados than I know what to do with. Heaven! Chiquita is moving their global headquarters to Charlotte and I am lucky enough to have blog reader in the Chiquita Avocados division. Last [...]
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Babies and Bellies
April 30, 2012 { 39 comments }It seems like every day I hear about a new pregnancy or baby being born. I guess that’s just the stage of life that I’m in right now. I attended a baby shower for Caitlin yesterday and there were five pregnant ladies in attendance. Impressive! Also, I got word late last night that one of [...]
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Sensory (and Muscle!) Overload
April 29, 2012 { 34 comments }It’s been a pretty interesting weekend over here, although I think random would be a more appropriate term for it. Friday night started off normal enough. I did a really tough CrossFit class in which we had to do 60 toes to bar over the course of the workout (along with rowing, push ups, ring rows and burpees). [...]
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Hard Workouts, Good Food
April 27, 2012 { 19 comments }Happy, happy, happy Friday! Although I can’t believe it’s already Friday! When I travel on the weekends and then jump back into a busy week, time seems to fly. I’m looking forward to a relaxing weekend in Charlotte so that I can catch up and get organized. Two things that I pretty much feel like [...]
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Rainy Day Home Workout
April 26, 2012 { 36 comments }The weather is a little crazy here in Charlotte today. I awoke to sunshine, a cool breeze and blue skies and immediately set off on a beautiful three mile run with Sullie. By the time I’d showered and gotten ready for work, it looked like this outside. Gray skies and lots of rain. Judging from [...]
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CrossFit Endurance: Day One Eats and Downtime
April 21, 2012 { 8 comments }Hi everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. This update is going to have to be quick because I am on a one hour limit with Internet access and have a very early morning. Today was the first day of CrossFit Endurance training and wow…do I ever have SO much to share with you! [...]
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I’m At The Beach
April 20, 2012 { 11 comments }I’m at the beach! It feels so good to see the water. I haven’t been to a beach since late last summer and I think that may be a record for me…far too long! I’m in Hilton Head, South Carolina but not for a relaxing weekend of lounging beachside with drink in hand. Quite the [...]
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Pizza Makes Gray Days Better
April 18, 2012 { 13 comments }It was a rainy and chilly day in Charlotte and my mood was pretty blah to match it. It is crazy how much my mood is impacted by the weather. Even if I’m not having the best day, warm sunshine and blue skies can make me feel at ease. After many days of abundant sunshine, [...]
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The Forgotten Vegetable
April 17, 2012 { 40 comments }I so appreciate everyone who took the time to wish me congratulations on my second anniversary of blogging on Peanut Butter Runner. When I ask questions like, “tell me one thing that’s changed in your life over the last year,” it’s not just to illicit responses. I genuinely enjoy reading about the things that you [...]
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Cleaning It Up + CrossFit Fun
April 11, 2012 { 38 comments }I’m back! It’s been a bit of a busy week around here so I have been focusing on work. I’ve been teaching a lot of yoga and we have so much going on at Metro. We’re preparing for the opening of our second location and there is so much happening. It’s so exciting and I [...]
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Cake Baking And Easter Eating
April 9, 2012 { 40 comments }Hello Monday! I am back in Charlotte and back to the normal routine after an amazing weekend with my family. I love visiting my grandmother’s house. It was basically my second home growing up and it feels so good to have our family together there, especially on holidays. Whenever I visit I feel like I [...]
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Easter Weekend In Georgia
April 7, 2012 { 15 comments }I hope everyone is having a wonderful Easter weekend…however you may or may not be celebrating it! I am thrilled that it’s a beautiful spring weekend and I’m spending it in Georgia with my family. I am so grateful that I was able to get away for the weekend for some family time. It’s been [...]
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Monday At A Relaxed Pace
April 2, 2012 { 35 comments }You know how sometimes you have random food cravings? Recently, I have been craving ranch dressing. So weird, right? I picked up a bottle of natural (MSG/HFCS free!) ranch at the grocery last night and then made a big salad. It was everything I wanted it to be and more…arugula mix, green leaf lettuce, feta, [...]
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Caffeinating The Green Smoothie
March 28, 2012 { 48 comments }Happy Wednesday! We’re on day 3 of the 7-Day Green Smoothie Challenge and I got a little crazy with my smoothie this morning. I had the genius idea to make my green smoothie hybrid pre-yoga fuel + morning coffee and added a shot of espresso. Leave it to me to figure out how to caffeinate [...]
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A Sad Dinner And A Happy Dessert
March 27, 2012 { 30 comments }It’s going to be a hot topic this week so get ready but I have to give a shout to all the 7-Day Green Smoothie Challenge participants. We’re up to about 85 now! I am LOVING all of the recipe suggestions and have so many ideas for new combos to try this week. I stepped [...]
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Spinning Again At FlyWheel
March 21, 2012 { 49 comments }As predicted, it’s slightly painful to sit today! This is the culprit. My bottom met a spin bike for the first time in years. I actually own padded shorts that I’ve never worn (gifted to me when I went through a month long spinning phase when I first moved to Charlotte) but after a quick [...]
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Weekend Download
March 19, 2012 { 33 comments }My weekend ended with a 9 p.m. bedtime on Sunday. I don’t really know how to describe it but I’m just kind of tired and feel like I can’t get caught up. I got enough sleep over the weekend but my body has been feeling worn out and sore. I think a lot of it [...]
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Spring Fever
March 16, 2012 { 17 comments }The official first day of Spring may not be for a few more days but it’s arrived in full force here in Charlotte. It’s been a beautiful week and everyone is out enjoying the perfect weather and sunshine. There’s something about the beginning of warmer and longer days that is so energizing. There were tons [...]
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Squats, Lunges and Cupcakes
March 15, 2012 { 33 comments }Remember the workout I posted yesterday? It ended up taking me about 30 minutes total to complete with the running and CrossFit WOD and clearly it was effective because my glutes (we’ll be PC here) are sore today. When girls ask me “how do I get rid of this” while pointing to their upper thighs, [...]
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Peanut Butter, Coconut and Fruit Granola Bars
March 12, 2012 { 35 comments }It’s been quite a Monday over here and I’ve been full-speed ahead since my feet hit the floor at 5:15 a.m. My first stop was the Y to teach 6 a.m. BodyPump and then back home to clean myself up and feed my starving belly. Strength training makes me so hungry! I got a little crazy [...]
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Sweaty Saturday
March 4, 2012 { 27 comments }I had a great Saturday but no time to slow down and post. It was pretty much full of my most favorite things – teaching yoga, taking yoga, hanging out with the pup, baking, shopping and drinks with friends. My alarm went off at the very early hour of 6 a.m. since I had to [...]
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The Counter Pose To Life
February 28, 2012 { 35 comments }Recently it’s seemed like my yoga practice has really ebbed and flowed. I get in a groove with it for a period of time and then I start skipping out on my practice when I feel busy and other things are demanding my attention. Case in point, I practiced ashtanga 2-3 times a week (in [...]
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Pinning Away
February 27, 2012 { 75 comments }Well, I had a feeling I could only ignore all of the talk about Pinterest and how amazing it is for so long before I falling victim to its addictive qualities and I was right. The last thing I really need is another Internet time suck but I am loving Pinterest. Yes, it is easy [...]
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It’s Enough
February 21, 2012 { 32 comments }What is it about sitting for extended periods of time that makes you so tired? You know, things like long car rides, cramped flights, meetings and trainings? I sat in CPR/First Aid/Oxygen/AED re-certification for a little over four hours yesterday and it absolutely wiped me out for the rest of the day. Although we had [...]
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Guest Instructing In Georgia + Comfort Food
February 19, 2012 { 22 comments }I mentioned this in last night’s post but the reason for my weekend trip to Georgia was to visit with friend and blog reader, Louly, who is the director of the Y in Covington. They were launching BodyPump 80 this weekend so it was perfect timing for me to visit and participate in the launch. [...]
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A Crazy V-Day
February 14, 2012 { 37 comments }I am a broken record on Tuesdays. I’m exhausted. That’s all going to change soon though as I get back on a more normal schedule. Although I love everything that I have done today, I’m definitely looking forward to being a bit more focused and not all over the place all day, every day. The [...]
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All About The Eggs + Weekend Update
February 12, 2012 { 21 comments }I hope that it is a beautiful Sunday wherever you are. It is really chilly here but the sun is shining and the cold air is invigorating. It also motivated quite a few yogis to show up for my 9:15 hot class so I’ll take that! ;) I needed a little break from blogging this [...]
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Random Cravings
February 8, 2012 { 44 comments }Good morning! I was up before the sun this morning to make sure I could fit in a blog update before I tackle my busy day. I love the quietness of early morning hours. It’s one of my favorite times to get writing/reading work done. I also love sunrise runs and hope to get back [...]
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So Much Yoga
February 2, 2012 { 15 comments }It’s been a yoga-rific week. Over the past three days I have taught ELEVEN classes/privates. While I love yoga with all my heart, I do not even want to say the words “inhale upward facing dog, exhale downward facing dog” right now. And I’ve only been able to personally practice one day this week and [...]
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Ghandi Inspired Giveaway
January 23, 2012 { 393 comments }Because it’s Monday… Because I had to drive four hours in fog and rain… Because I am feeling inspired by “Ghandi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World”… It’s giveaway time! Keep reading…details are coming. I slept until about 8 this morning and then came downstairs for breakfast and coffee with my grandmother. I don’t even [...]
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Devil Dog
January 20, 2012 { 24 comments }I’m so happy to see the arrival of the weekend. It’s been a crazy week. I’m actually taking the weekend off and heading down to Georgia to visit my grandmother. I haven’t seen her since Thanksgiving and we still need to do our Christmas celebration! Yesterday’s overnight oats were so good I had to repeat [...]
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Powered By Coffee And Carbs
January 18, 2012 { 14 comments }It was a busy Tuesday! I kicked off the day by teaching a 7 a.m. yoga class followed by a yoga private and a training client. I had a little bit of downtime before my lunch class so I took a break from the gym and headed over to Sunflour Bakery to get some computer work [...]
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Sometimes I Eat Croissants, Sometimes I Eat Salads
January 13, 2012 { 23 comments }HAPPY FRIDAY!!! It is a beautiful day here in Charlotte. Although it’s rather cold, the sun is shining and the sky is cloudless. My day is going to be pretty relaxed and low-key. I am only teaching one lunchtime yoga class and then computer work (must catch up on email), blog stuff, a Trader Joe’s [...]
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Holiday Recovery
December 27, 2011 { 31 comments }Monday was spent in what we’ll call “recovery mode” from Christmas. It started with laying in bed until 9:15 followed by a long and sweaty workout at the gym. I ran 4 miles on the treadmill. The first mile was a warm up. For miles two and three, I alternated between inclines and speed every [...]
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A Pretty Worthless Day
December 21, 2011 { 10 comments }I have been relatively worthless today. I subbed out my classes so as not to spread my cold germs and proceeded to sleep until 9 a.m. Once I rolled out of bed, I immediately started on breakfast and coffee. I made a bowl of Silk Nog Holiday Oatmeal and topped it with TJs pumpkin butter [...]
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Sunday Evening Entertaining
December 19, 2011 { 17 comments }Hope your Monday and final week before Christmas is off to a great start! While I am being a bit of a scrooge about getting in the holiday shopping spirit (yep, still haven’t started), I am enjoying the opportunity to spend time with friends and family. Last night we had friends over for dinner and [...]
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Crepes and Christmas Yoga
December 17, 2011 { 9 comments }Happy Saturday! I can’t believe that next Saturday is Christmas Eve! Side note on that…for those of you who live in the Charlotte area I will be teaching a complimentary in-store yoga class at Lululemon before the mall opens on Christmas Eve. Craziness! The class will be from 7:15-8 a.m. and I promise it will [...]
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Run It Out
December 14, 2011 { 35 comments }Loved all of you suggestions for ice cream toppings. Especially loved how many of you suggested peanut butter-based toppings. You know me too well! Today was one of those days that required a run. A long, fast, sweaty one. Y’all know I have been off the running train lately but running is still the thing [...]
