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 […]

There was a lot of Rocky Balboa-style fist pumping going on this morning by yours truly. After 4 weeks of running and running and running, I finally {finally} averaged under 10”/mile. In fact, I knocked my time out of the park! When I was finished with my run and hit the “end workout” button and […]

I did it. Today finishes my personal challenge to run 5 days a week for 4 weeks. In the process, I have morphed into a stronger runner. Actually, it could be said that I have morphed in a runner [period] as I really wasn’t much of one 4 weeks ago when I started this little […]

While I am a clumsy person in general, I had so far managed to remain on my feet while running. That is, until this morning. I had just gotten to the corner where the bike trail starts and I slowed down to wait for a stop in traffic flow so I could cross the street […]

Odd days happen every once in a while. Today was mine. I woke up at 6:30 to rain. I postponed my run without really thinking about it. Later, I thought, “How am I going to get my run in since I’m going to Body Pump class tonight?” I got out of work slightly early today […]