March 15-18, 2019 A few months ago when Nate started teaching at Loyola he was given a list of upcoming events to prepare for, one of them being the Bataan Memorial Death March in White Sands, New Mexico. When we catch word of events, they go directly on to…
This weekend was the completion of my first race of the season, the Just Du It Duathlon at Beechaven Winery in Clarksville, TN. The duathlon consisted of a 1.58 mile run, 15.5 mile bike, 1.58 mile run. They had a 1-mile fun run, then a 10k…
Saturday morning my brother and I braved the threat of terrible weather to run the 3rd Annual Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Pi-Miler! The run was 3.14 miles (hence the name), and consisted of a loop through the nearby neighborhoods of TJ. I needed a…
Whew, the last two weeks have been yet another whirlwind in the life of the Goldsmith family! Nathan and I have been very busy getting things together, trying to organize our living space to a state of comfort, and planning trips to take in the next few months. Learning the…
This past weekend was jam-packed. Saturday Nathan, mom, and I drove down to Charlottesville for a wedding shower at his family’s church. We had a fabulous time, and everyone was so very generous to us! It was a little hard, because I didn’t know very…
Back to the fun of crazy weekends! Saturday I volunteered at the Difficult Run Pony Club Horse Trials at Frying Pan Park as a jump judge. This is my last year with the pony club (I age out at the end of the year), so I’m trying to…
DONE friends, DONE. This past weekend was the Charlottesville Marathon/Half Marathon/8K/Kids Mile in the downtown area of Charlottesville, Virginia. My running partner and I have been training for about 4 months for the Half Marathon, which is 13.1 miles of rolling Charlottesville terrain. Friday I was…
Despite the rainy weather this weekend, my running mate and I decided to tough it out and run our longest run before the half in two weeks. Since the half is 13.1 miles, our goal was to do 12 this weekend, then 8-10 next weekend, and then rest…
Today was the St. Patrick’s 8k in downtown, DC. It was also my very first legitimate running race, and the debut of “Team Noob-A-Roo” (though we only had 3 people so it didn’t count!). I’m ultimately thrilled about how my…
I hope everyone is having a good “Leap Day,” as it only comes around once every four years. Apparently if you were born on February 29th, you are called a “Leapling.” Learn something new every day 🙂 According to Wikipedia.com: “In the British Isles, it…