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Archive | May, 2011

31 May 2011 ~ 5 Comments

JillWillRun Bumper Stickers

The good people at Build-A-Sign contacted me about making some kind of signage for my site. And then I lost the email… And then they reached out to me again! Hooray! So I got to make some magnetic bumper stickers for my site.  Check it our “in action.” (Disclaimer: okay, my car is parked here [...]

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31 May 2011 ~ 7 Comments

National Running Day 2011

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 is National Running Day! The logo for the campaign is above, with my answer to the “I Run…” filled in.  It took me a moment to decide how I wanted to answer the statement though.  But just thinking through it helps me realize that cutting back my mileage for a while [...]

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29 May 2011 ~ 11 Comments

nuun & Hood to Coast Relay

nuun (my beverage of choice… other than diet soft drinks (or pop, as I call it), but that’s a whole other realm…) is putting together a team of female bloggers to run the Hood to Coast Relay in August… and I want to be on that team! Seriously, I love nuun so I’d be a [...]

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28 May 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Team Challenge – 2011 Napa to Sonoma #10

Group Practice #10 8 miles on the schedule Start time: 7:00 AM This week we did a “special event” training, our Six Tunnels Spectacular!  We met near Lake Mead to run the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail.  We didn’t run the whole trail to Hoover Dam (which would have been fun) because we didn’t have easy [...]

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25 May 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Frustration Celebration

Today is my 10th wedding anniversary! We were planning on going for a hike this morning with Jade.  Jade loves hiking through dirt and it seemed like a nice way to spend the day, celebrating that we are a little family unit with the whole family together. But instead, I spent the morning at the [...]

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23 May 2011 ~ 2 Comments

My Interview with Dean Karnazes

The people behind Dick’s Sporting Goods National Runners’ Month arranged it so I could chat with Dean Karnazes, one of their National Runners’ Month ambassadors.  This is the second year for this campaign, in which everyone is encouraged to get out for a run during the month of May.  Part of the campaign involves raising [...]

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