Joanne's Life

Now that I have a house. (Have I mentioned I have a house?) Now that I have a house I did the next thing I wanted to do. I acquired a dog. ...

I bought a house. I bought a house back in March and spent the month of April into May moving in and doing little things to it. Immediately ...

So I never wrote a post about the 1/2 marathon. I meant to and then life interfered. So I'll write about that first and then other stuff...

I will be celebrating finishing my 1/2 marathon at the Happiest Place on Earth. It is pretty apparent that I will walk the whole 1/2 mara...

So all the time I've been training and struggling I kept hoping there would be one moment where I would "get it." Where, like ...

As the title suggests I have 6 weeks left. I've been slacking over the holidays because a - the weather has been very cold and apparentl...

With this stupid running thing I hit a big ass wall. A big ass 'It's freaking cold and I don't want to do this anymore and I hat...

There are 13 weeks remaining until the 1/2 marathon. I have 13 more weeks to be positive and strong and think good thoughts (and then NEVER ...

So for this round of the Pintester Movement we've been instructed to make Christmas tree ornaments. Now I live alone. I have no kids. I...

Subtitled 10 miles down 3 to go. So today's long walk was 10 miles. I did run a little bit of that 10 miles but mostly walked. I did r...

I take a ridiculous amount of water aerobics classes - 5 classes a week. Our old instructor had to leave the Y because her husband got a pro...

One thing I'm having a hard time with regarding all this running junk is running on asphalt or sidewalks. This seems odd, no? I've b...

For my latest post as part of the Pintester movement I'm making Gluten-Free Chocolate brioche  found on The Culinary Life. I do not r...

I just finished the book The Non-Runner's Marathon Guide for Women. In it the author describes her training . It is a fairly hysterical ...

After I ran my first 5k I felt like my left knee was less than happy with me. It's been bothersome enough that I bought a knee brace. It...

I ran my first 5k on Monday. Running outside is very different than running inside. It's unreal how different it is. It's the same a...

Since I've begun this regular running program, I've found I'm hungry ALL THE TIME. I only run 3 days a week. I do not run 7 days...

As of today I've been working the program for 5 weeks. Today I felt like I am going to fail big time at this. Like completely and totall...

One of the things that has been a struggle for me with all this running shit is that I don't feel like I'm improving fast enough. No...

I've done four 30 minute runs so far and one long run on the weekend. I seem to be consistently doing a 20 minute mile. My long run on l...