St. Croix Valley Triathlon Race Report!

Goooood lord. It is only like 3:45 and I swear it feels like 8:00! It’s not that I really feel tired, but it has definitely been a long day! Here we go.. start to finish! The St. Croix Valley Triathon:
I decided not to go out to Hudson last night. For some reason I had in [...]

Just the two of us…

Just the two of us we can make it if we tryJust the two of us just the two of usJust the two of us building castles in the skyJust the two of us you and I
         -Will Smith
So you all know Gomer… 
Let me introduce you to the QRoo:

A 2008 (I think?) [...]

reunited and it feeeels so gooood…

Erika + Gomer = <3
I gotta go find a tree to carve that into….
OK guys.. I need some tech help here. I brought out Gomer (my child, my lil love, my Garmin) for the first time yesterday since that dreadful rainy “last run” on September 29th. At first it looked like it wasn’t connecting [...]

‘Cause I’m an expert..

Cecilia recently left me a comment about Heart Rate Monitors, and I found myself writing a response so long (and consequently going off on about a billion little tangents) that I thought the topic deserved it’s own post. Here is what Cecilia wrote:
hey there, great blog you have here :0) Hope you don’t mind me [...]

Grandma’s non-race race report!

Honestly, I don’t feel like I need to say anything more than
Grandma’s Marathon was a BLAST!
But of course I will. Not a race report.. but I will take you through the my Grandma’s experience from start to finish!
My mom has run Grandma’s Marathon 7 or 8 times. It always used to be over [...]

Gomer (go’-mer): Hebrew – to complete.

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So I’m starting this post a little after 9:00 on Sunday night.. knowing it will take me a good minute before this is “publish ready”.. not to mention just to think of all the things I want to include in here! Don’t feel obligated to read [...]

7 toenails to go.

How gross is that? I can’t remember the last time I had all 10 toenails.. there are always a few that have gone black and fallen off, or are halfway grown back. Right now I have one that is just hanging on for dear life.. it’s completely black and I’m definitely feeling it after TODAY’S [...]

a gift from god.

Gomer arrived on May 13th just after 5:30 pm. My love for this little guy is pretty extreme.. like so extreme I better not have one when I have real kids, because I’m pretty sure it’s a sin to love your garmin more than the children you give birth to. (*edited to add.. Gomer IS [...]

mom & me: you know how we do

So I believe I mentioned before, CostCo is pretty much my favorite weekend adventure with my mom. Even though it’s just the two of us living at home, we manage to go through a lot of, um.. everything! I know I really promote local, organic produce, which is pretty much the opposite of anything coming [...]