Thursday Thoughts: Choose your Slope

May 2, 2013

Our life. It’s a bit of a SLOPE, yes SLOPE, not SLUMP. SLOPE: to cause to incline or slant — slop·er noun But I think the questions remains.. Is it an upward slope or a downward? I (we) want to think it’s upward. Working on our relationship(s), working towards a goal, working in those “hard [...]

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Training Food Tweaks: GF/DF Recipe

April 30, 2013

Today is Kiwi Cotter’s birthday. He’s not a fan of birthdays. Well, not his own. I call him The Birthday Scrooge. He thinks he’s getting old (in triathlon years), but I beg to differ. I like to think he is aging like fine wine.. bolder and smoother with the years, yes? YES! Anyway, this weekend [...]

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Glad it’s over: Race Weekend

April 29, 2013

You know when you have one of those weeks ( or days, hours, moments, etc.) when everything just seems to go wrong? It’s starts with one thing then just escalates from there? Yup, that was our past week and weekend. But in hindsight,  we laugh. Because although it didn’t go as planned, we still were safe, had fun, [...]

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Friday Food and Fitness Finds

April 26, 2013

Well it’s Friday and the Cotter’s have successfully made it through the week. You see, my husband has had a virus for 10 days and then pulled his back out right after that. Oh and he’s suppose to race Sunday. Ya, what a week! But we made it and he’s racing Sunday. Might not be [...]

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RECI-PEA Recipe and WIAW

April 24, 2013

I haven’t done a WIAW post in a while. I’m thinking today might be the day. Well mostly because I have ton of random food pics on my phone, no time to really blog, and recipe to share. Oh, that make for a good Wordless WIAW, minus the recipe of course, that has to have words. Okay [...]

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MIMM: Giving in

April 22, 2013

If my (our) life could talk right now it’d say…. Whoa.. Every day I wake up thinking “let’s do this.” And every night I ask myself, “how can I do better?” Give up? No. Give in? maybe sometimes. Give it all you got? Most of the time. This past weekend I gave in a little, [...]

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A Tribute to Running

April 21, 2013

This weekend I was cleaning out my closet when I came across this poster. It was given to me as a Christmas present a few years back. Oh what peace and comfort it brought to my heart. Boston Marathon 1937: Notice they are all running to run. No garmin, no fancy gear, not even a [...]

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Endurance Foodie Friday: FAITHFILLED

April 19, 2013

Meh.. I kind of let this week go. I mean, after Monday’s tragic event and then the West Texas explosion, I really didn’t have much to talk about or share. I mean, I could have, but honestly I had nothing to say. Just a lot of prayer and heart felt grieving. I think it’s needed, [...]

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Be Strong for Boston

April 16, 2013

Such heavy hearts today. Let us pray and continue to pray STRONG… never ceasing.   And just like that, running will be forever changed. Thankful my friends are all safe. LC

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Winning Weekend: Shop Smarter and a Blueberry MMAZ

April 15, 2013

First of all, it’s Boston Marathon DAY!!! I know so many who are racing, so here’s a big GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY THOSE MILES from the Cotters!!! Okay, phew, didn’t want to forget to send some sherpa cheer. Now, let’s get to the post. I feel as if it might be lengthy for a Monday, [...]

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