Posts under ‘training’

My first memory is sensory.  Up until the age of three, my family lived in the Pacific Northwest on Whidbey Island, in the middle of the Puget Sound.  I didn’t know that, back then. I remember standing outside in the front yard of my house.  Everything was green; the leaves, grass, pine trees, and bushes.  [...]

I’m two and a half weeks into the California International Marathon (CIM) training plan that the awesome Coach Gwen worked up.  Being a naive marathon-virgin, I announced I was going to try and qualify for Boston my first time out.  After looking at the training plan, I briefly considered bailing on the entire thing, writing [...]

Sometimes you have to mix it up.  A new trail, a new partner, new music (or lack thereof), new time of day, etc. My marathon training plan has me doing easy “recovery runs” on Saturday in preparation for a long run on Sundays.  This is going to mess with my usual Saturday morning trail runs [...]

This is the first in a four-part series on motherhood and running (or running and motherhood).  This first article will look at a few different aspects of training that applies to MOMS!  Timing, the psychology of running on a schedule, setting goals and then heading out of that training run is harder than it looks.  Clothing Wear [...]

This is a shameless promotion of my dear friend, Lynn Swearingen.  She’s a massage therapist at Mountain West Wellness in Boulder, and is offering $20 off either a Shiatsu or regular massage during the month of March!  Here’s a page all about Lynn as well:  Massage at Mountain West Wellness in Boulder. This is what I [...]