Race Recap – Page 2 – Run. Laugh. Eat Pie.

A-MAY-zing May (see what I did there?)

16 June, 20148 November, 2015 RenéeJust Life, Race Recap3 Comments

Yeah, Yeah I KNOW it’s the middle of June now. So let me tell you a little something about when you suddenly have a lot of time. Actually, you don’t quite know what to do with yourself! Hence the silence.…

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…

Lisbon Half Marathon T – 1 and Day of Recap

8 October, 20136 May, 2015 RenéeFun Stuff, Race Recap8 Comments

Day T – 1 Usually when you are on holiday in a place you’ve never (or, ok, in my case only twice very briefly) been, you try to get in as much as possible, right? Not us. We are probably…

Lisbon RnR Half Marathon: Day -2

4 October, 20136 May, 2015 RenéeFun Stuff, Just Life, Race Recap4 Comments

Greetings from Lisbon! This morning we got up at the crack before dawn to drive to Eindhoven to catch a flight. It was super smooth getting there, unlike the last time we travelled from Eindhoven (when we went to Lithuania…

Done. Onto the Next One.

2 October, 20136 May, 2015 RenéeExercise, Fun Stuff, Race Recap2 Comments

So Sunday… was the Posbankloop, which once again my husband kicked his PR’s ass. He’s such a rockstar! First of all, it’s a smaller race. Not sure how many participants but probably 5000 or less. It wasn’t very crowded at…

Epic.

28 September, 20136 May, 2015 RenéeExercise, Fun Stuff, Just Life, Race Recap4 Comments

I don’t know how else to describe this month. Mind you, Epic doesn’t necessary mean good. In my case it means a lot of different things. Good. Bad. Stressed. Busy. Exhausted. First of all, the work thing is just insane.…

What’s Happening?

7 September, 20136 May, 2015 RenéeBody, Exercise, Food, Fun Stuff, Just Life, Race Recap5 Comments

So, since I had a little whinge about my struggles, I’ve had a vacation, gotten my blood test results back, ran a 10 Miler and had a birthday so I thought I’d update just a wee bit. Running When I…

Ten Reasons I will Never do the Color Run Again

26 May, 201325 August, 2015 RenéeExercise, Fun Stuff, Race Recap36 Comments

Update: I’m sorry (too) that this post comes up so high in the search engine. I wrote this post in 2013. This was the first Colour Run in the Netherlands. I’m sure you’ll have a great time at YOUR Colour…

Another Week Down

20 May, 20138 November, 2015 RenéeExercise, Food, Fun Stuff, Mind, Race Recap12 Comments

What a week! What a weekend! Where do I even start? Everything about my life seems like such a blur at times. I know. It’s getting boring. I’m saying the same things over and over. So I’m still off and…

In a Nutshell

13 May, 20136 May, 2015 RenéeJust Life, Race Recap13 Comments

So after Berlin I had a few days of “normal life” then I was off to Rwanda. What an amazing experience that was. I started writing about it and then I realised that: 1) I was really hard to put…

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.