Posts under ‘Mental’

“Running is my anchor. It’s not what I do, but it’s what makes everything else I do okay.”- Ben Cheever.
Michelle, one of my buddies at DailyMile.com, posted this today.  It totally sums up my feelings about life right now.
Last week I entered the ranks of working people.  I started doing a temporary 20hr/week job that’s [...]

This is not the post I started to write yesterday about my morning run.  THAT one is about half-way done, but I’m scrapping it in favor of writing about what I did AFTER the run.  I want to write this because I want a record what I did on March 6, 2010, long after this exact date [...]

I was looking at some posts from last March, and was struck by “Drought of the Spring Equinox”, the one where I noticed how DRY the mountain was.  In that post I mentioned how there was usually a month (yes, a four week time period) where we had to stay off the mountain because of [...]

This weekend didn’t turn out like I thought it would.  Last week Sophie and I had a little cold; after a few days our virus’ diverged.  My cold cleared up and hers took a turn for the worse.  Now we know she has a sinus infection that is topped with a whopping case of pneumonia.  [...]

It’s been two days since my last run, and it’s supposed to rain/snow tomorrow.  My daughter felt well enough to go to school today after snuggling on the couch yesterday with her box of tissues, ginger ale, and books.  This meant… drum roll, please… I was free to run as long as I wanted!
I headed [...]