You can check out my goals for 2016 here, but this post is about looking back at a pretty marvelous year.  Thanks to all of those who supported me and brought joy to my life in 2015.

Here are a few facts about 2015…

Marathons/States Added: 1/1 (Freedom’s Run, West Virginia, 3:54:18)

Half Marathons: 0

Triathlons: 0

Other Races: Broad Street Run 10 miler (1:36:21), Turkey Trot 5k (22:39) (PR)

Time Change from Last Year’s Best Time: 17 minutes faster than the 2014 Philadelphia Marathon

Time Change from PR:  Nine and a half minutes slower than the 2012 New Orleans Marathon

Weight Change: Lost about five pounds

Running Streak: 41 days, with Runner’s World Run Streak Summer 2015

Miles Run According to Strava: 575 (started using March 23, 2015; does not include any walks or indoor miles)

Fitness Discoveries

• Adidas Ultra Boost shoes
• Nutritious Movement
• Strava app
• Apple Watch
• Orangetheory
• Podcasts to listen to while running

Staple Workouts

• Running
• Orangetheory (for latter part of year)

• Reformer pilates

• Ballet

Other Workouts

• Horseback riding
• Barre
• Restorative yoga
• Hot yoga
• Flow yoga
• CardioDance
• Modern dance
• Lifting, with and without a personal trainer
• Soul Cycle
• Trapeze
• Hiking

 

 

 

 

 

Major Life Events

• Changed jobs
• Got married

• Started this blog

Oh the Places I’ve Been

• Skiing in Tahoe with friends
• Amsterdam and Paris with now-husband

• Nantucket with friends
• NJ beach week with the family
• Bachelorette weekends (not my own) in Miami and Charleston

Page Turners

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (so, so good! a new all-time favorite along with The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson, which I read in 2013)
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel
• Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (I know her!)
• Sherlock Holmes and Cormoran Strike detective mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
• Surprisingly pleasant chic lit… Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• Reading to cry like a baby but also inspired to go on an adventure… Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Pretending to be well-read this year… The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Displeasure reading… Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (what a disaster… glad I read this before I had a child and named it after Harper Lee) and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

What’s Streaming (Somehow This Ended Up Longer Than Anticipated)

• Somm (documentary available though Netflix)
• Mad Men’s final season (AMC)
• Transparent (Amazon)
• Downton Abbey’s final season (PBS)
• Sherlock (which started the whole detective reading thing above) (BBC)
• Shows that I watched on DVR with fast forward capabilities… Project Runway (Lifetime) and The Bachelor/Bachelorette (ABC)
• Shows that I can’t decide if I liked or not… The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) and Unreal (Lifetime)
• Shows that I knew were bad but yet I still watched for some reason… True Detective (HBO)
• Embarrassed to admit it… 90 Day Fiance (TLC)

My Food Pyramid

• Yellow triangle: pizza when I was lazy at work (until I quit that)
• Blue level: Perennial favorite apples with peanut butter (sometimes with Greek yogurt); air-popped popcorn

• Green level: Sweetgreen; crop share veggies

• Red level: Smoothies

Other Food Finds

• Powdered peanut butter
• Vinebox  (first shipment comes in January 2016!!!)
• Silk Almond Coconut blend
• White Lily biscuit flour

In short, it was a great year, and I am so excited for what 2016 holds!