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Susan’s update: 4.7 miles Monday. 6.1miles Thursday, 9.2 miles Saturday = 20 mi at an average pace of 8:24. I lifted today (upper body) to complete my goal for the week. I ran solo this week, mostly due to competing travel plans, but I’ll send my workout plan again next week to seek some recruits. […]

Despite the encouragement of active.com, I’ve been flailing a bit on committing to a training and racing plan for the year. It’s not that I’ve been slacking on workouts – I’ve actually run at least twice a week since mid-November with the exception of a 10-day hiatus after the Disney half marathon. For some reason […]

We just returned from a fabulous and somewhat surreal trip to Vegas. When asked “did you do anything fun this weekend?” most colleagues don’t expect me to say that between leaving work at 5pm on Friday and attending a division management meeting on Monday morning, I went to Vegas. It was a bit of a […]

Today’s weather at Disney provided deja vu to the weather we experienced on October 19. When we boarded the bus before 4am, the temperature hovered around 34. While we waited for the start, ice pellets and tiny flakes of snow fell. An inauspicious start to our day – the first time it has snowed at […]

In my last post on books I was debating on a book to pick for book club. I was ready to pick The Shack by William P. Young but was encouraged by the book club attendees that month (both MIT employees) to pick The Difference “Difference” Makes by Deborah Rhode. I was fearful that it […]

I realized it’s been a rather sparse November for our blog. What has been keeping us busy? We really enjoyed having friends come visit the Juddmansee B&B. First Mary came for cooking and games during her cousin-ween trip. We were very excited to tackle a pile of greens from the farm share, play games, and […]

Today started at 5am with a peek out the window to see that it wasn’t raining yet. I assembled my gear and headed to Lowell for the Baystate Marathon. Despite a few butterflies and a chilly 41 degrees, I was feeling warm and ready for the race. My goals, in order of importance: finish, run […]

Sometimes it feels good to just get stuff done around the house.  Brian and I came up with plenty of things to do today, so we decided to skip hiking and spend the day on home projects. We started out touching up the house paint that we’d scraped previously. It’s a 2-person job: I hold […]

For most of the summer we’ve been enjoying our farm share, and rarely venturing out of the realm of known foods.  Sure, we generally don’t buy swiss chard or kale or chinese cabbage as often as we get it at the farm, but we’ve had plenty of those foods before.  It’s more of a case […]

Labor Day weekend held glorious weather, which allowed us to *finally* get in our first hike of the season.  We originally planned to leave at the crack of dawn on Saturday, but later decided that nothing beats a good sleep to start the long weekend, and traffic cooperated so we didn’t kick ourselves for making […]