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WRD – Week 33 Noah Called

18 August, 201918 August, 2019 RenéeWeekly Run Down14 Comments

Week 8 of 16 Chicago Marathon training is a done deal. I’m halfway and I feel about a quarter ready to take on the distance. I’m not going to dwell too much on the negative that I feel, because I…

Week 28 – Successes and Failures (rounds up to success, right?)

18 July, 2018 RenéeWeekly Update15 Comments

I know I’m late posting this – life is kind of busy at the moment. Here’s how last week turned out: Monday – rest day, nothing special, just work, and doing stuff in the house after work. Tuesday…

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.