Will Run For Ice Cream

*affiliate links A few short months ago, I would have done almost anything to get on the treadmill. I just wanted to move. Now? Well, now I'm terribly bored with running on the treadmill. Funny how I think I could walk for days on the treadmill, but running is a different beast. But lately the temperatures just haven't been cooperating to running outside. I will do cold. But when the weather warnings are saying frostbite can occur to exposed skin within 15 minutes, well I re-think my relationship with my treadmill. But today - I just needed

Here is another #TuesdayTidbit. Being from Mississippi, I wasn't prepared for Pennsylvania Winters. Now, don't get me wrong, it gets cold in Mississippi, and I did my fair share of running in the cold, but I wasn't prepared for Pennsylvania. My first year here,

*affiliate links If you've been following, then you know I'm injured. And people are getting on my nerves  giving  me a little grief for 'not resting enough.' So, let me just put a few facts out there. I had zero, zilch, none, absolutely no cardio for 4 weeks, where I then took a 15 minute leisure walk . I then gradually increased the speed and time until I was power walking 30 minutes 3 times a week with a rest day in between. I then started incorporating short runs (started with 5 minutes, then 10, then 15 and have plateaued at a 20 minute run, 10 minute walk) with a total time of 30 minutes. It has taken me 3 weeks  after my 4 weeks off to work my way up to a 2 mile run. I felt minimal pain (maybe a 2 on the pain scale) and will stay at 2 miles for another run or so to see how I feel. But as we were out on a family drive this weekend, I realized