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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 9

August 30, 2010

It has been a while since we were able to post on Monday! This week is going to be a little different…Lee will be in Camarillo, CA for work so we will be doing different workouts all week. In fact, Lee is going to tour the local CrossFit boxes so he has no idea what [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 8

August 25, 2010

Wowsers…another busy week! Last weekend we got a chance to escape the Texas heat and spend some quality time with the Hargrave family in Illinois…plus we got to run it out with our pal Jenn and the Gateway Team in Training crew. This week we are focusing on a very important aspect of marathon training…sleep! [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 7

August 18, 2010

Wowsers…it has been a busy week or two for The Running Couple! Just to update you on what is happening behind the blog/Twitter/Facebook…we’ve signed on to Athletes HoneyMilk to work as part of their social media team (super excited!), Lee and some friends just put on a huge CrossFit competition at the Dallas Convention Center, [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training – Week 6

August 9, 2010

Wanted to show a picture since we are doing this series on our training for the 2010 Chicago Marathon. This is us at the 2006 Chicago Marathon…and the beginning of The Running Couple! This race inspired Isis to start running and even though she has re-thought that decision several times, she will be lining up [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 5

August 2, 2010

Ten more weeks… Yep, for those of you who will be joining us in the starting corrals for the 2010 Chicago Marathon we have 10 weeks of training left. Seems like a lot doesn’t it? Maybe for some of us it doesn’t, but trust your training and you will be ready for the 26.2 miles [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 2

July 12, 2010

Well…last week was a tough week for us to get in our scheduled workouts. We had a very rainy week here in Texas and a lot of social events late in the week. Needless to say, we didn’t get all the workouts in. While it may be easy to get down on ourselves, we are [...]

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Chicago Marathon Training Log – Week 1

July 6, 2010

Have you been wondering why “The Running Couple” is all of a sudden going “paleo” and talking a lot more about CrossFit on Twitter? We know some of you are because it has sparked a lot of conversation lately around how we are training for the 2010 Chicago Marathon. We will be training a little [...]

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Paleo Kitchen Makeover

June 29, 2010

Lee and I have been dabbling in the idea of going Paleo for a while now. We have always been inspired by CrossFitter’s Lindsey and Web Smith in Austin, and now that Lee recently got CrossFit Endurance certified we thought it was time to make the switch. It also helped that we checked out my [...]

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Why You Should Join a Run Group

May 18, 2010

Running is a sport that can definitely be done alone. As you can tell from our blog title, we prefer to run together as a couple. What can be even more fun than running with each other is getting a large group of friends together for a group run. Prior to starting my running venture, [...]

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Road to Abs: Before Pictures

January 25, 2010

Step one was to evaluate my eating habits and focus on eating balanced meals and snacks. Step two was to take the ever so embarrassing “before” pictures to compare to my amazing 6-pack “after” pictures. My goal was to have a 6-pack this year but three fitness divas, @runkerrierun @sarahthequeen1 and @aSingularGirl have challenged the [...]

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