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Eating Equals Energy and Oatmeal Cookies for Breakfast

When I first decided to run longer distances, 10 miles or more back in 2009, the thought of eating something before these early morning runs never occurred to me. After all, I had been going to the gym for years and running 5 miles a couple of hours before having any kind of food. I remember my first attempt at 12 miles on a stomach full of NOTHING. An epic failure. I was very careful working myself up to running that distance without getting injured although paid no attention to an equally important aspect of endurance which is nutrition. Now, [...]

By Joanne|2015-04-08T15:17:59-04:00April 8, 2015|Health and Nutrition|2 Comments

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies with Real Fruit Chews

This could be the end to my blogging for a while She’s a pistol! When this 9 week old puppy gets bursts of energy, look out! I’ve been lucky since it’s a long weekend and every time she starts feeling her oats, I let her and Shane out side to run it off. Unfortunately for the newly planted flowers, she finds things to amuse herself. Shane tolerates her outside and will play with her inside the house. He’ll put her whole head in his mouth when they play. He’s very careful not to step on her or put his entire [...]

By Joanne|2012-05-28T19:44:28-04:00May 28, 2012|cookies|6 Comments

New Marathon Shoes and The Marathon Cookie

I told you about my foot pain (outside ball of right foot) that came on during my last long run. I hemmed and hawed over what to do. I love my Newton performance shoes. They took me through my first marathon and I was planning on partnering with them at Boston. The Boston course is hard and taxing on the legs and feet. I don’t dare risk having that pain strike during the middle of my run. So I went over to see the folks at The Sneaker Store. They gave me their complete undivided attention. They took me through [...]

By Joanne|2011-04-10T18:21:55-04:00April 11, 2011|cookies, Running|15 Comments

Friday Runs and Flourless Bird nest Cookies

Friday used to be my day off. No matter what happened earlier in the week. No matter how many workouts I missed during the week, Friday was a mandatory day off. That fell by the wayside since marathon training. My schedule has to be flexible in order to get in some distance runs as well as weight workouts. Today, Friday, I ran. Shane has yet to say “[woof] ..I’ll train for a marathon with you Jo… [woof]!” (not sure if “woof” would translate like that. I’m not fluent in dog). In fact, I’ve never asked if he likes running. Since [...]

By Joanne|2010-08-13T06:10:42-04:00August 13, 2010|healthy cooking, Quick Meals, Running|10 Comments

A Healthy Cookie?

It is my belief that we all have a personal definition of “healthy”. Maybe that’s good since no one diet works for everyone. We are wonderfully unique human beings all made up of different cells, different genes, different personalities and manners of thought. So why shouldn’t our definitions of healthy be unique? This question came about because I picked up a delicious cookie called “Nana’s”. If you have never heard of this product, it is a 3.5 oz cookie that is available in a variety of flavors. The two I picked up were the Double Chocolate Cookie and the Peanut [...]

By Joanne|2010-02-03T16:57:25-05:00February 3, 2010|Food, healthy cooking|4 Comments