bittman-ed

Yet one more reason to love the library: Cookbooks. I can't tell you how many times I've bought a cookbook, only to have it sit...

the cat's bandanna

Few things are more wonderful than cats wearing clothes....

too tame?

Went to Straw with Christina tonight. After reading the Daily Candy and Urban Daddy blurbs about the restaurant, I pictured walls...

ramen girl

Spent the evening icing, elevating and watching -- wait for it -- The Ramen Girl. The movie made me hungry, but Shoki and its Tan...

fml

Tonight I rolled my ankle in a truly craptacular way -- and with barely a week left until race day. Of course, right? Note to...

the diet

Part Two of my nutrition consultation took place today. My nutritionist and I went to Whole Foods, and walked up and down every...

balance

This is kind of how I've been feeling about running lately. It's all about building a solid foundation (bonus points if that foundation...

monday, monday

A fitting thought as I try to figure out where this day went. And now it's off to bed, so I can make it to the track in the mo...

snowshoe

Let me start by explaining that I was not raised to love the outdoors. I didn't grow up spending family vacations camping. (As...

12 slow miles

Twelve-mile road run today with Neveia -- the farthest I've run since CIM, and it was not easy. I'm not quite sure what was going...

aptly named

... is perhaps the best way to describe Santa Rosa's Bliss Bakery. I walked in, took one look at the bakery case (giant chocolate...

the list

Considering the fact that January is almost over and I've actually already eaten at one of the places that was going to be on my...

why running buddies rule

Last Sunday, in the middle of our muddy, misty trail run, I said: "Let's pretend we're unicorns." And my friend responded: "OK,...

munch monday

I know. Today is Tuesday. I never said I'd be punctual. And all you really need to know is every Monday is now Munch Monday, which...

tonight's festivities

Let's just say there was wine, pastries, homemade kale chips, reality TV and a few runners who needed to put their feet up for a...

a day on the trails

First, an 8-mile trail run at Shiloh Regional Park. The climbing felt never-ending, the mud was ankle-deep in parts, and I saw two...

off to bed, off to run

About to call it a night -- meeting the Turtles at 7 a.m. tomorrow for a 10-miler. Our coach sent out an e-mail saying tomorrow's...

replacement

This is a vegan breakfast sandwich on gluten-free bread. I picked it up at The Garden this morning. (They now open at 6 a.m. on...

demo

I went to a vegan cooking class last night thinking I was going to, well, a vegan cooking class. As in: There would be a teacher...

some things must wait

It is past my bedtime!...

so far, I'm still alive

My lunch actually wasn't as depressing as I thought it was going to be. In fact, it was good. And I didn't feel like I was going...

the awful truth

This morning's appointment with a nutrition consultant resulted in painful news: I'm supposed to cut down on and eventually stop...

back to it

First day of the trail group -- just a short, relatively easy 5-miler in Howarth Park and around Spring Lake. So far, much love...

crabby

The truth is, prior to this afternoon's picnic in the fog at the Tomales Bay Oyster Company, I had never cracked a crab before....

choosing the right shoe

Tonight my world was turned upside down. And no, it's not because the Vanilla Ice movie is on TV right now. (I can't believe such...

mad for miso

I made my very first miso soup from scratch tonight. Do not mock. I already know. The truth is I was scared of miso soup. I thought...

wednesday tip

Wednesday is vegetarian night at Neela's in Napa. (Yup, checked it off the list last week, which means I made it to seven of the...

good karma

Karma: The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining...

resolve

Looks like fun, doesn't it? That's the Rift Zone Trail in Point Reyes, site of my last long training run before the Portland Marathon...

lazy sunday

While other people are coming up with their resolutions for the New Year, I stayed in bed until almost noon and read while Mari slept...

good-bye, 2010

Well, that went fast.There were ups and downs. (And I'm not just referring to last night, which was all fun and laughs and the clink...