Lights, camera, fashion!

Reviewing the last of my illumination devices today! This week I had a chance to try out the shoe lights that I was gifted by my sister-in-law.

They are the Night Runner 270 and they worked great. The benefit to these is that they are super light and I forgot they were even on my feet! They will be good for navigating tricky trail terrain (say that fast 10 times!) at night as they light up the area directly in front your your feet. So, I have my headlamp for front and side illumination, my hand held flashlight for aiming at whatever is down in front, and the shoe lights for close to the feet areas. I think I can't get any more LIT that this! These shoe lights attach into your shoe laces and can be adjusted to do several different modes of light (similar to the head lamp). Steady, steady higher beam and flashing....all of these go on at the same time as a red light that shines to the back, so people behind can see you as well. I am hoping these will help to give the confidence I need for the night portions of the upcoming Ragnar Trail race in Richmond.

Now for something totally different...I busted out the leopard accessories this week on one of our more spring-like weather days. At first I thought this was too much leopard at one time...but NAH! As long as your other pieces that you are wearing are neutrals, like denim or black like I have on, you're good!

Shoes and Belt are LOFT (old)

Tortoise shell cuff Bracelet is Garnet Hill and no longer available (found HERE)

Ring is World Market (only $5!? not available online but here is a link to their jewelry)

I'll close out this post with my birthday dinner outfit. I bought the top last year from Banana Republic. It is such a delicate silk and has really cool silver beaded epaulettes (yes, I had to Google the spelling of that one!) on the shoulders that I love. The necklace is from the last FabFitFun box. The delicate silver beads compliment the shoulder beading quite nicely I think. It was a great outfit for a great night out with my husband! Ready to rock my 47th year!

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Ragnar Richmond Recap!

First Ragnar Trail relay is in the books and boy, was it an adventure! Notice I said, "first"...I had originally thought I was "one and done" with these things (as I am with the full marathon) however, I think I could enjoy another go of one. Definitely a fan of the trail version and not interested in a road Ragnar though (the thought of sleeping in a van horrifies me more than camping!). I think I need to wait til 2019 (or even 2020 ) though - not ready to train for another in 2018! Gotta let the paint dry on this one...So, here's a detailed recap of our adventure: Proof that I CAN camp! Thursday 3pm-ish : 4 of us drove down to Richmond with all of the camping gear in order to set up our site and get checked in. This was a great plan because we were able to scout out a site and set up before the rest of the team arrived the following morning. Our start time was one of the earlier times on Friday (10am) so we didn't want to be worried about s

Light me up!

Good morning and welcome to winter in northern VA. We are on our 3rd snow day here (as in school's cancelled) and I am trying to make the best of it. I did a long yoga practice (as my IT band is raging today and needed to stretch badly), ran errands this morning (before the so-called icy rain is supposed to arrive) and put the boys to work with homework and vacuuming. Now to update the Blog and get some research done on the Ragnar race. I hope to get in our times (we are not fast!) and figure the whole rotation out. I really need the help of someone who has done this before (preferably a former captain) so that I can have us well-prepared. Hit me up if you can help! For Christmas I asked for (and recieved!) lots of cool running gear. I have yet to use the three types of lights I got. The Nathan Headlamp is on sale at Rei. I did take it out of the box and charge it (as it does not come charged but is a rechargable device simlar to my Garmin Vivofit watch). I put it on and

Summer running...happened so fast!

We are in the thick of summer humidity here in NOVA. My least favorite time of year to train for any races (Hence the reason I chose a March marathon last year, so I could train in the winter.) More than the heat, the humidity just exhausts me. It saps my energy like nothing else! (It is also the reason I am not doing another race until October.) And, as I was discussing with my friend on our soupy run this morning, just when I feel like I may be acclimated to the heat, it will be turning into fall here. (Fall is my favorite!) Regardless of the heat, I have still been running about 3 times a week (in addition to indoor cross-training and yoga) and trying to get in at least one "longer" run per week. This week it was an 8 miler with my running group. We did a "tour" of all the monuments and took photos along the way. It is by far my favorite way to see the monuments. This is our second year and second attempt at getting a good shot of us all jumping together!

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