Is There a Place in Running for Politics?
UPDATE: The day after I originally posted this, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation reversed their decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood clinics. Thank you to the … Continue reading
A Little Failure Can Be Healthy Sometimes
For those of you that race, think back to your most memorable races. I don’t mean the ones where you just have flashes — the crowd in the start corral, … Continue reading
Top 10 Things that Suck to Have Pass You
As an undeniably slow runner, I have a wealth of experience with getting passed. Usually it doesn’t bother me, but on a recent run I had an unfortunate experience with … Continue reading
The Test of Travel
It’s late Wednesday night, and I just spent an hour and a half on a completely different and infinitely more frightening kind of writing. I wrote a toast for my … Continue reading
Owww…
Today, I am in pain. In fact, I think I’d go so far as to say that if you want to be a distance runner, you must have a high threshold … Continue reading
A Healthy Addiction?
Pretty much anyone who has met me can tell you: I have an addictive personality. A lot of kids read The Black Stallion and decided they wanted a pony for … Continue reading
A New Look
I’ve made a resolution. I’m determined to be as dedicated to this blog as I am to my running. (Minus the whole waking up at 5am thing.) The Goal: Have the … Continue reading
If I’ve Learned Only One Thing: Lock the Bezel!
As many already know, I have a love/hate relationship with my Garmin. When I mention it, non-runners often go off on rants about their dash-mounted GPS devices. They don’t realize … Continue reading
On Groups
I originally thought to title this post “Going Rogue”, but the parallels with the Sarah Palin book were just too much for me to stomach. Well fine, Sarah. You can … Continue reading
Still Running…
Okay, so clearly I fell off the face of the earth–or at least out of the blogosphere–for a while there. You know how it is: things get busy, you take … Continue reading
Running Fiesta 