I guess we are spoiled runners here in Northern California. The weather is usually perfect for running: not too hot not too cold dry most of the time (we do have a drought problem…) no snow little wind Seriously,…
Running
Last year I wrote a blog post on Why I run with Team in Training.All these reasons are still true to me. But this year I added a few more. During my recent run at the Nike Women’s Half…
You run. You are a runner! If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There…
Nike #5 is what I call it.It’s the fifth time I am running this race. First in 2009 as a full marathon and then as half marathons. This year the course changed and everyone freaked out before the race…
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…
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…
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. ~…
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.…
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…
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!)…
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…
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…