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What I learned from My First Marathon, Part I

25 April, 201525 April, 2015 RenéeFun Stuff, Training3 Comments

Hopefully I can get this down in a coherent fashion and don’t bore the pants off of who is left reading my blog (thank you, kind reader, if you are still with me!). One thing I’ve learned whilst marathon training;…

March update (yes, mostway through April)

18 April, 2015 RenéeFun Stuff, Just Life, Weight Watchers2 Comments

Wow, I’m great at this blogging thing, eh? Honestly I do not know how people are able to post weekly let alone daily! Anyhooters – March Update! Tons of running – 205 KM’s! TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE. that’s insane! Back…

March is the Month I Hit Goal Again

28 February, 201528 February, 2015 RenéeExercise, Food, Fun Stuff, Just Life, Self, Weight Watchers3 Comments

Sometime right before I started marathon training, I decided I really wanted to get back to my WW goal of 70KG. At that time it was something like 6 or 7 KG to lose and if I would be really…

Big Things, Little Things

22 November, 2014 RenéeFun Stuff, Just Life, Weight Watchers2 Comments

The last 10+ days have been full of big and little things. I believe we should celebrate as much as possible to keep things in perspective. This is a particularly hard lesson for me when it comes to work, but…

5 Bloggiful Years!

1 November, 20142 November, 2014 RenéeFun Stuff11 Comments

Today is the Blog’s 5 year anniversary! 5 years! I started off with absolutely no clue of what I was doing or how I even wanted to do it. I thought perhaps that it would be a great way to…

To Market, To Market, to buy a Fat …

26 October, 2014 RenéeFood, Fun Stuff1 Comment

Carrot? I used to really hate going to the market. All those people. And the smelly fishmonger. And the yelling. I mean, really, how can anyone stand all of that? Occasionally I would go to a market in another town…

Numbers

17 October, 2014 RenéeFun Stuff, Just Life, Weight Watchers4 Comments

Good Lord I can’t believe I haven’t posted since July. What a slacker! Here’s what’s happened: Days since I last posted: 103 Kilometers run: 463 Calories burned running: 29,198 Races participated in: 6 Races I ran two different distances the…

Friday Five

2 May, 2014 RenéeExercise, Food, Fun Stuff, Just Life, Weight Watchers1 Comment

It’s been an odd week. Basically I was free the whole week and the plan was to relax, do a few things around the house and prepare for starting my new job. I definitely relaxed! The things I wanted to…

A Good Start – January Update

26 January, 20148 November, 2015 RenéeExercise, Food, Fun Stuff, Race Recap6 Comments

If you know me by now then you know that two weeks and nary a post from me is pretty normal. I am the Queen of Good Intentions. So here’s a few things: 1- I started the month/year with choosing…

Hey! I’m Renée, 55 years old; I started running just to lose some weight and in the meantime found out that running changes pretty much everything. My favorite running partner, Ron (56), started running just to support me, but he found out he actually had a talent for it and consequently has run over 28 marathons in the span of 6 years with 3 of them being World Majors.

This blog is about running, fitness, mental health, travel and, though I am trying to get out of diet mentality, I may still talk about weight/ weight loss. Sometimes a combination of all, sometimes not. And not always in that order.

Running and fitness keep me sane, travel is my passion.We live in the Netherlands – Mr Pie is Dutch and I am American and Dutch, now living here over half of my life.