Saturday: Plan: 3 “easy” miles. Completed: 3.09 enjoyable but hilly miles. Sunday: Plan: 30 minutes of cross-training. Completed: Two hours of walking around Monterey Bay Aquarium, hoisting a 30-pound preschooler. When we planned our impromptu trip to Pacific Grove on Friday afternoon, I had initially planned that I would run at home before we hit…
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How Do You Handle a Crisis?
Last Thursday, I was on a cross-country flight from EWR-SFO. Less than a third of the way into the flight, somewhere over Indiana, the unthinkable happened: my sweet, charming boy had become the vomiting preschooler. In an instant, we went from being the subject of smiles and waves to being that nightmare in-flight story. By…
Training and the Traveling Single Mom
Traveling with a 3-year-old son creates unique complications. I had tons of downtime in the hotel at afternoon naptime and after he was in bed at 8:00 p.m., but I was confined to the hotel room because there’s nobody else to watch him. Add to this the fact that Philadelphia rolled out the red carpet with…
Cabbage Salad with Ginger Vinaigrette
This would be an ideal summer salad served with pork tenderloin or chicken marinated in teriyaki sauce. Ingredients 3/4 cup rice vinegar 3 Tbsp sugar 1 tsp sesame oil 1 Tbsp low-sodium soy sauce 1 Tbsp grated ginger root 1 head green cabbage, shredded 1/4 cup cilantro (optional) 1/2 cup scallions, sliced 1 cup radishes,…
Still Training
As I look at the date of my last training post — May 8! — I wonder how 10 days have passed so quickly. I have been training plenty, although not in the last two days while I’ve been traveling solo with the boy. Some highlights from the past week: Three kickboxing classes, including the…
Grainy Bread, Take 2
As I’m sure my regular readers have noticed, I have a bit of an obsession with no-knead bread. I’ve marveled at the simplicity of it, and often wonder how such a thing is even possible. This article, from the New York Times, gives a good explanation. I had tried a grainy variation of the no-knead…
The 3rd 40: Days 29-32
It has been an unusual week. I don’t know when the professional karma pendulum swung my way, but I received more requests for proposals in the past week than I did in the six months prior. And these aren’t just returning clients; a full two-thirds of them are new clients referred by existing clients. I’m…
The 3rd 40: Day 27
It was a 100% work-free day (with the exception of the time I spent jotting down ideas into an email on my iPhone at the A’s game… yes, I have problems). Every Sunday I wake up with the intention of going to kickboxing at 9:00. The problem with that plan is that it interferes with…
The Future of Computing
We went to the Apple store on Saturday, and as my husband handled his exchange in the back, the 3-year-old and I wandered around looking at the cool toys, including the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and the iPad. I have a theory that I shouldn’t push the life of my laptop much further than two…
The 3rd 40: Days 15-19
It’s not easy to take care of yourself on a business trip, and this one was no exception. But the weather in Chicago was gorgeous — 80 degrees! In April! — which made sunrise runs seem a little more reasonable. I woke at 6:00 AM both days and found myself sharing Lakefront Trail with hundreds…