Dear Running, Today is Valentine’s Day! It seems like the perfect day to spend some time together. We’ve been involved for a long time, first as friends when I was young and doing short runs with my dad. Then we flirted our way through high school, college, and grad school. Sometimes we were close, sometimes…
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Keeping up with the Joneses
I live in a rather, umm, competitive area. I’m surrounded by driven personalities. Our once quaint little neighborhood filled with Sears bungalows and small brick colonials is changing over to HUGE houses. Additions are so big you can barely find the old house. Infill houses have five or more bedrooms and often as many baths. …
Rainbows and Unicorns
I woke up this morning in a crappy mood. Some of it was hormonal. A lot of it was just a lot of little stresses weighing me down. Nothing major, just general life annoyances plus the added stress of Christmas. I didn’t want to run. I ran 25 miles over the last three days (yes,…
A brilliant run
I was chosen as one of the lucky bloggers at the start of the Mizuno Mezamashii Run Project. While I was flattered to be included, I was worried about what shoe to choose. I’d just gone completely minimalist and Mizuno didn’t really have that type of shoe yet. I’d run in Wave Riders for many…
Confidence Builder
So, sometimes I think I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. Five half marathons in 5 days? What the hell was I thinking? I haven’t run long since April. I haven’t run fast since 2010. What makes me think I can do this? Today I ran 10 miles. They weren’t awful. In fact, they…
People amuse me
I’ve gotten hits from some really good searches lately. The most frequent amusing search I get? Barefoot and naked, often combined with running… Some of my favorites: “Dancing barefoot and nude” – umm, yeah, no. “Can a biker love a non-biker ” – I’d say yes, you know, mixed marriages and all that. “the fish…
I’m weird
Ok, maybe just my feet are weird. Ever since last fall, when I started running in Vibrams a lot, I’ve found that my right foot hurts in regular running shoes. I get this pain near the top of the ball of my foot, right where the toes start. It’s not unbearable and it doesn’t affect…
Cue the music…
I don’t run with music. I think I’ve run three times in my entire running career with my ipod. I trained for both marathons and lots of halves with only my own thoughts and very occasionally a companion to entertain me. I think that may have to change. Two of the five halves are run…
Random things I learned this weekend
When you register for five half marathons in five days, you suddenly realize just how far that is. And then you start panicking about the measly 3+ mile runs you’ve been doing lately. If you use your charge card in a location away from home and sign up for $250 worth of races, your card…
Run first.
You’d think I’d learn. On weekdays, I have no trouble finding a time to run. I wake up, put on my running clothes, and then run as soon as I can after kid drop off. Every once in a while I push it later in the day, but mostly I run by 10am at the…
Changing gears
Today I should be talking about picking up the speedwork to go for a PR at the Army 10 miler. However, based on a lot of stuff that’s going on + my major lack of mileage at this point, I’m feeling really “meh” about the race. So “meh” in fact that a DNS is pretty…
Barefoot, naked running
Sometimes you just have to return to your roots. After Wednesday’s pretty darn awful run, I was discouraged about my running. I got home from dropping the kids off at school and decided I really needed to hydrate (it was still warm and humid). By the time I finished my nuun, I realized it was…