Category Hobbies

Sunday Night Knit Night | no. 2

Welcome back to Sunday Night Knit Night. Unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to knit this week, so I’m glad we’re making a little time to sit down and create together. The new year is starting to settle in as…

Circus, Circus

Walking down the Las Vegas strip, Leigh points to the blue and red colored steeples of the Camelot Hotel & Casino. “That’s what I thought I was booking when I made our reservations,” she said. I guess somewhere along the…

Hawaii Half-Marathon

We picked Hawaii for our honeymoon destination because of a half-marathon. You may think I’m exaggerating, but I googled half-marathons in Hawaii as soon as the islands came out of my fiance’s mouth as an option. As luck would have…

Sunday Night Knit Night

Around the time I got engaged, I jokingly asked my mother-in-law to be if I could join her Monday night knit night once I moved to town permanently. It’s an exclusive circle including her, the owner of the local yarn…

Race Recap: Historic Hillsborough Half

Yesterday morning I completed my second Historic Hillsborough Half. The weather was chilly at the start and warmed up to a perfect 56 degrees by the finish. I smiled for all 13.1 miles and trained for only like 2 of…

Ultra.

The sun was directly above us, and there wasn’t a cloud in sight. We were on mile 16 of a 31-mile quest to complete our first 50K. Leigh was doing her best to perk me up, but I was on…

I may not make it to Boston & that’s okay

I ran two miles today, and they sucked. There are plenty of reasons why those two miles weren’t very much fun. I ran in the middle of the day when the sun blazed, and the asphalt temperature crept up with…

Because Normal Isn’t Good Enough

The moments leading up to the Not So Normal ¾ Marathon on Sunday morning were filled with panic and anxiety. You see, I registered for this race because I thought boredom was the reason I didn’t stick to a training…

Basil.

Kevin and I have a massive basil plant in the front yard. When we planted it back in June, I was just hoping to keep it alive since North Carolina was already in the middle of a super hot summer.…