A Quest to Run a Road Race in Every State
If you look carefully you can see our spiffy “Running Fifty” shoe tags that were created for us by Run Inspired Shoe Tags. Â I ordered a pair for Mike for Christmas and got a set for myself, too. The tags arrived within a few days with a lovely hand-written note commenting on our quest […]
Considering that my sister, Kate, lives in Vermont and that it is an easy three hour drive from our home in Maine, it was surprising that we didn’t run a race in Vermont until three years into our quest. Â However, we eventually chose the Kotler 5K which is part of the Maple Leaf Half Marathon […]
Because we started our blog several years after we began our quest to run a race in every state, I have been adding posts about these earlier races periodically. Now that winter has truly arrived in Maine, I am happy to think back to our lovely visit to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Â This was the […]
My year of trying something new for 30 days is coming to an end. Here is a recap of the final months. I had designated August as the month when I would read for an hour a day. I love to read but I was seldom allowing myself the luxury of just sitting down with […]
As we enter the Christmas season, I want to share two ways to give that won’t cost you a penny and will take just a few minutes. The Charity Miles app lists more than 35 different charities that you can choose to donate to every time you do an outdoor walk/run, indoor walk/run, or outdoor […]
Even though we can get to New Hampshire from our home in Maine on foot without considering it our long run, we thought that heading to Iowa in this election season would be a classic time to visit. We had scrolled through possible options on Running in the USA and settled on the Lagomarcino Cocoa Beano […]
As the saying goes, “A picture’s worth a thousand words”.  So to mark the one year anniversary of our first post blog, I’ve decided to fill this post with images from the past year. We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to everyone who has taken a look at our reflections on our quest […]
Traveling to Philadelphia to see our daughters when they were in college gave us an easy opportunity to pop over the border to New Jersey. Having visited them to see Hannah’s collection in the Philadelphia University’s fashion show on Saturday evening, we drove over the Ben Franklin bridge on Sunday morning and… voila, we were […]
Choosing to eat locally for my “Do Something New for 30 Days” Â for the month of July was an easy choice. Â I knew there would be plentiful fruits and vegetables from a multitude of sources. Early in July I went to our favorite farm, Butternut Farm, where I picked cherries for the first time. Strawberries […]
A couple of years into our quest, when we  needed to venture further from home in order to reach a new state, we figured Labor Day weekend would offer us an extra day for travel without dipping into limited vacation time. We decided that Wisconsin would be a cool place to spend the weekend and […]
