It seems like “busy” is the new status symbol. Everyone is constantly on the go and juggling so many things. The most common response to the question “How are you?” seems to be “busy”, rather than an actual answer. So, how do you balance work, life, fitness, etc. in your busy life? Before I get…
Category: priorities
TOTR: Running pet peeves
Pet peeves – those things that for whatever reason really annoy us, often disproportionately to the actual level of inconvenience it causes. We all have them, some of us more than others. When Patty, April and I chose “running pet peeves” as our Tuesdays on the Run topic, I thought to myself “I really only…
Five things I was doing a decade ago
Today’s topic for Friday Five with Courtney, Mar, and Cynthia is “Five things I was doing a decade ago”. Hmm, there are a lot of things I was doing a decade ago, but if I look back at 2005, I can think of 3 things I was doing and 2 things I wasn’t…
Living my priorities
One of my favorite blogs to read is MizFit. Invariably, her posts either make me smile or make me thing. A lot of times they do both. One of the messages she frequently comes back to is “living your priorities”. Recently, she talked about how saying no to something is basically say “that’s not a…
It’s the little things
The big things in life can be amazing (a wedding, the birth of a child, hitting a goal you’ve been working hard for) and devastating (death, job loss, etc.) But it’s the little things, both good and bad, that seem to affect me the most and I doubt I’m alone. In general, my life is…
18 is so close to 20
No, I did not run 18 miles this weekend. I think my total mileage all last week was 18. I’m not talking about running today. I’m talking about marriage. 18 years ago today, we said “I do.” And the Pastor said “till death do you part” multiple times. Guess he really meant it. 18 years,…
It’s the people…
I run for myself. I race because the running community is amazing. The examples of goodness from runners, volunteers, first responders, residents of Boston, etc. that have come out of the Boston tragedy are amazing. I am thankful to count many of of these people as friends.
The Joy of running + WIAW
Lately, all of my running has been done for one reason: to train for this crazy ass goal of five half marathons in five days. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited about my goal and a lot of my runs have been enjoyable, but they all have a goal: to build my mileage high enough…
Playing hooky
My kids have 10 more days of school and many of those days are half days or include parent involvement. My to do list is about a mile long. The only thing I’ve accomplished so far today is get my camp physical to go to cub scout camp. (That right there is huge.) But, I’m…