I haven’t run more than 9 miles since last year’s half marathon, but I ran 10 last weekend.
And shattered my old 10 mile PR! By 14 minutes.
Check it out — here are my race times (some are embarrassing — note that my mile time for the marathon is my WALKING pace, though I [...]
… and I’m not talking public relations.
I’m talking personal record.
I made myself get out of bed this morning bright and early (5:30) and get out and run (6:30 — takes me an hour to fuel/hydrate/wake up).
I go out not expecting to do much, but I figure if I can do 3ish miles [...]
I realized that I haven’t blogged about running for a while, and since the title of my blog is “running+life” (or is it life+running) I think I should probably do that from time to time.
Last weekend I was supposed to run 10 miles for my half marathon training plan (did I mentioned I started [...]
I had a PR and hit a milestone of 500 miles today while running… but what sticks in my mind about my run today is the new Pepsi bottle stuck in the beautiful snowy country landscape.
It’s not the fact that it was litter — although that bothers me as well — it’s mainly because [...]
yay. finally got that last workout to load.
i rock.
which totally reminds me — on Saturday I ran down Grand Ave. and went past a car with a hilarious license plate: MANIROK. (man i rock)
MANIROK’s entire front end was smashed in…like the owner rammed it aimlessly into a pole. MANILAUGHED.
anyway… today’s run= [...]
today I had an amazingly short but awesome run — set 2 PRs: 8:06/mi and 26:03/5k.
— but —
NIKE PLUS DECIDED NOT TO RECORD THIS INFO!!! It’s on my iPod, but the workout data from today decided for whatever reason that it did not want to send to nikeplus.com. GRR.
the last two weeks [...]

Hi there. I'm Calee. Not Caylee. Also known as chimes or the chimes. I'm 27, a designer, a runner, a self-proclaimed fitness queen, a craftster, a foodie, a music snob — some might call me a hipster. Here's the unabridged version.
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