Enjoy the moment! Breath in your surroundings! Free yourself from all “musts”! Live the run! It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. ~John Bingham
It is the day before Nike Women’s Half Marathon 2014 in San Francisco.You can’t really miss that there is a race going on in San Francisco this weekend. This is the fifth time I am running the Nike race in San Francisco. My first Nike Women’s race was the Full Marathon in 2009. Then I […]
Love the body you have. It carries you through the day. Every day! Everything changed the day that I understood that if I was to become a runner, I would have to run with the body I had. ~ John Bingham
No one can take away your accomplishments. May it be a 5k, a 10k, a half marathon or a full marathon. You own it! Forever! There will be days when I don’t know if I can run a marathon. There will be a lifetime knowing that I have.~ Unknown
Or I should really say, “what a last few weeks”. Somehow that just doesn’t sound quite as elegant. LOL.Work has been keeping me chained to my ‘other’ laptop, the work laptop. Not this beauty here (oh my, I forgot you can’t see it – it’s pink. I know you guessed.). I took a couple of […]
Registration is open for the Midsummer Sun Kilomathon – a virtual race benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Run or walk (or cartwheel or jump or walk backwards or hoola-hoop) 1k each night in June (a total of 30k!) or run or walk a 5k fun run with your kids, spouse, or best friend. 100% […]
Join me for my virtual race #2 – the Midsummer Sun Kilomathon. We raised over $1,000 in April for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and I would like to top this in June! I love summer. So I thought what better way to celebrate summer and those beautiful long summer evenings than to get off […]
I recently ran my slowest ever half marathon. To be honest it took me nearly 4 hours to complete it. And my ‘normal’ half marathon pace is under 2h30min. So, don’t stop reading yet. As I was running the race (and the 3 days after as I was recovering) I thought about this: What is […]
You both know how I love my Team in Training buddies. So, don’t fault me for saying that sometimes I just love to run by myself. Running alone allows me for some time with my thoughts and reflection. Though I do know that running is not cheaper than therapy (at least not the way I […]
Just a little post-report from my half marathon in San Luis Obispo. Yes, the weekend was mostly about the race, about spending time with my amazing Team in Training friends, about helping find a cure for cancer. But really can I move on from this weekend without mentioning the hotel we stayed in?We stayed in […]
It rained as we drove down.No, it poured as we drove down.The Weather God finally decided that California needed rain, so he brought it on. The forecast said ‘dry’ on race day, but the drive down had me fooled… We arrived in San Luis Obispo, CA on Friday afternoon. A little too late for the […]
Happy Easter to all my fellow runners, walkers, hopscotchers!Wishing you a wonderful weekend!