Running, Sustainability & Real Life

In my blog you’ll find pieces of my journey, reflections, lessons, and insights I hope you’ll carry with you.

Beyond Running

Beyond Running, Training Tips

8 Productive Things For Runners To Do While Waiting or Traveling

We love to run. It is our freedom, our self care time, our breath of fresh air in a world of never-ending to do lists and rushing from one place to the next…or lets be real, one thought to the next. We love our running, we want to get better…
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Beyond Running, Training Tips

Signs You Are Pushing Your Body Too Far

We live in a go go go world. The busier you are, the better. Who cares if you feel tired, that’s life, get on with it. It feels like everyone around you is cramming more into their morning than you get done in a day, so why are you complaining?…
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Beyond Running

Baby Led Weaning (Baby Led Feeding)

Quite a few people have asked me lately about the way we started Bailey on solid foods, as knowing when you can start giving your baby solid food (and what that even means), along with which baby foods to start with can be really confusing. I wanted to create this…
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Beyond Running

Best Baby Must Have’s for 6-9 Month Olds

Here is what I believed to be the best products for a 6-9 month old gift guide. Maybe you have friends and family with babies this age, or maybe it is you planning ahead. If you missed my recommendations for gift ideas for newborns, best baby products for 2-3 month old and…
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Beyond Running

Join a Runner Community for Fun, Friendship, and Freedom to Share

In the past, the only way to find a runner community was at local running events on a Saturday. Those communities are still there, but if you are shy or a little socially awkward (aren’t runners universally known for being that way? :p) that is not your only option anymore.…
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Beyond Running

Best Baby Must Have’s for 3-6 Month Olds

Another post on baby essentials, this time for 3-6 month old babies. In case you missed my baby products for newborns and baby products for 2-3 month old posts, there they are. It has been a while, but once you reach that 3 month mark, things start to change pretty…
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Beyond Running

Day in the Life of a Mother With a Baby

A few years ago, I wrote a day in the life of post to show what elite runners do in a typical day. I recently shared this day in the life of a runner post on my social media, and received a comment about what a day in the life…
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Beyond Running

Why I Just Can’t Be Real With You About Motherhood…Yet

Running for Real. Tina for Real. Everything I have ever done under my personal brand, I have been real. I have shared the ups, the downs, the funny stories and the fears in every area of my life. I have shown my vulnerabilities, allowed my walls to come down, and…
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Beyond Running

Best Gifts for Pregnant Women: 2017 Holiday Gift Guide

Last week I published my gift ideas for runners, and this time I thought I would share some ideas for those who are in the same situation as me right now. I am still running a little, but pregnancy gifts for first time moms are far more appropriate to me…
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Beyond Running, Life Events

End of Second Trimester! 27 Weeks Pregnant

Oh boy! Here we go! The final stretch is ready and waiting for me, and things are getting very real. Not just cause I can’t really bend over anymore, and everything feels a little squished inside, but because I really am nearing my baby’s guess date, and before I know…
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