Explore the World one Step at a Time
Explore the World one Step at a Time
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 learned you get the Tiffany’s necklace when you run the half marathon. Hence, with all…
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 weeks off running in May, but have been fully back on in June. First 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% of the profits go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! This will earn you this…
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 the couch each night and run or walk one km (or more if you like).…
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 a perfect race? Is your perfect race your fastest race ever? Is your perfect race…
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 plan my races…). I have noticed that whenever I am home alone I don’t really…