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Liverpool – Rock n Roll Marathon Day! (Part II)

6 July, 2015 RenéeFun Stuff, Race Recap, Races2 Comments

On Sunday we woke up early to hit the breakfast bar on time. It wasn’t totally ideal but we did our best with carbs (cereal, toast, danish) and sweet things like honey and jam. We also had our carb-loader drink…

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…

Seven Hills and that Pesky Little Problem I have

5 December, 20126 May, 2015 RenéeFun Stuff, Race Recap, Self

Some of you may remember when I did this race two years ago… I desperately wanted to do it the next year but I had that little knee problem and was out of commission for this event in 2011. So…

Letting Go

2 December, 2012 RenéeFun Stuff, Just Life2 Comments

So that stuff at work that is going on? I’ve decided to let go of the stress that I’m allowing to take over my normal workday. There are still things that are going on and decisions waiting to be made…

Overdue

25 November, 2012 RenéeJust Life

It really has been almost a month since I blogged. With good reason. Seriously it’s been a wild crazy busy couple of months and the stress level has been pretty high. I meant to update at the end of October…

WNL:: (was not last!) Westervoort Midzomer Run

25 June, 20128 November, 2015 RenéeBody, Exercise, Fun Stuff, Race Recap

Yes another race! And another PR! This time I shaved 16 seconds off of my fastest race in Hilversum just two months ago. Last year I had to skip this race as it was again right after the Ladies Run…

Recap: Rotterdam Ladies Run 2012 Edition

24 June, 20128 November, 2015 RenéeBody, Fun Stuff, Race Recap3 Comments

It was a couple of weeks ago already, but I am still smiling about my experience with the Ladies Run in Rotterdam this year. What a difference from last year! If you have been following along, you’ll remember that last…

Recap: Marikenloop 2012

27 May, 20128 November, 2015 RenéeFun Stuff, Race Recap

Wow, I can’t beleive it’s already been a week ago that I was able to participate in the 10th annual Marikenloop in Nijmegen! This is a Ladies Only race and has really grown in participant numbers over the last several…

And… Another Race!

29 April, 201229 April, 2012 RenéeBody, Exercise, Fun Stuff5 Comments

A few months ago I signed up for the Spieren voor Spieren (that’s “muscles for muscles” literally translated) City Run in Hilversum (the media capital of the Netherlands). I knew it was the week after Milan and I thought it…

Another Week Goes By And What Have I Done

31 January, 2012 RenéeBody, Exercise, Food, Just Life, Self7 Comments

I realize it’s Tuesday (evening for me) and I’m very late with my update, but this is my life and the way the lowfat cookie crumbles. Again a week has gone by and my intentions to blog during the week…

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.