Livin' the Dream in Lima

Well, 2012 has come and gone. I haven't been able to blog as much as I would have liked (hello, life!), but thought it would be fun to look back at my year 'in running'. The Numbers miles logged: 2561 - not including tomorrow's run... planning on 6 or 7 more to finish the year! races run: 14 highest mileage week:  62 - training for the IL Marathon pairs of shoes gone through:  4 or so money spent on running shoes:  don't even want to think about it Clif bars consumed:   probably 250 or so, love those things!  number of miles run with my Business Man:  oh, about 2. :) I'll turn him into a runner someday... though he did run his first 5k! (with no training) Overall, it was an awesome year for running. I was really blessed to see a PR in every distance from the 5km to the marathon. I started the year by pretending to be in college again with an indoor 5km ... luckily I was able to hold my own and broke 19 minutes for the first tim

Tuesday Tangents: A few weekends ago I traveled to the grand ole' state of Illinois to celebrate one of my BFF's bachelorette party. She gets married in less than 2 weeks! We had lots of fun. We'll leave it at that. On the drive there, I stopped in our college town to run my favorite 3-mile route from back in the day. Yes I'm one of those  people who packs running clothes in their car for instances such as this. Totally fun though. While driving back to the Bean Town, I passed a truck on the highway. Carrying a treadmill. And then spent the next 20 miles wondering if it would be possible to run on the treadmill while driving down the interstate. Physics friends, help me out?? My friend Kristi came to visit us here in the Bean Town this weekend with her two wee ones. We had loads of fun... though we didn't quite bake as much as we did last year . Something about entertaining a 5 month old + 3 year old makes regular activities take three t

It's been a busy couple weeks. We've had LOTS of time spent with family & friends, which is always awesome. I can't believe it's already December... time to whip out the mixers and baking sheets and get cookie-baking! I debated whether to do the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies here on the blog this year, considering it's been 85 years since I last posted a recipe. But I figured, "why not?!" It gives me a good excuse to try out 12 new recipes.  For day numero uno, we've got Rocky Ledge Bars . One of my fabulous teacher-baker friends introduced me to these bars and they're absolutely delicious.  [ Side note : She is also a cupcake queen and our students always tell us we should have a makeshift 'Cupcake Wars' at school... haha. As long as the students provide the $10K prize, I'm in.]   These bars are a twist on a basic blondie, with a buttery brown sugar base.. They're loaded with all sorts of goodies - semisweet choco