The air outside is thick with water vapor. It doesn’t feel miserable if you are taking out the trash. It does, however, feel miserable when you are trying to run 4 miles in it. I thought that I was supposed to run 4 miles today, then I looked at my Nike+ trainer log and realized […]

According to my new coach/schedule on my iPod, today was my day to run. (I’m not on a daily schedule anymore.) The first problem was that I overslept so that pushed my run out of the early morning heat to the after-work swelter. Regardless, I was amping myself up for this run all day because […]

Apparently, a bad mood and bad weather make for a good run. Tonight, I was feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and irritable so I did the only thing I could think to do to cool off (figuratively; it was literally very hot outside)–I took off for a run. (I did not know this, but apparently, I can […]

Kevin always drills me to keep my head on a swivel. I admit that I’m slightly less alert than he is and my reaction time is always delayed. This worries him. I told him today that my “head on a swivel” is getting much better though now that I am married to him. He gave […]

I have upped my running challenge. I’m a bit more leery about this one. For some reason, it seems much easier to me to get up every morning and run 2.75 miles than to start staggering my runs by distances. Distances scare me. (Another thing that scares me is when my husband remotely starts playing […]

When I was 18, I lived in Uzbekistan for 6 months. It was, by far, the hardest period of my life. I was homesick. I was tired of cabbage soup and non. I was exhausted from trying to understand the fast mixture of Uzbek, Tajik, and Russian languages spoken everywhere I went. I was exhausted […]