Posts Tagged ‘Running’

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.  [...]

The 2010 La Sportiva Eldora 11K Trail Race turned into more of a 9-9.3K, rather than the expected 11K, though we still gained about 800’ in elevation throughout the course.  Runners didn’t find out about the change until two minutes before the starting gun went off.  Paul Karlssen, Race Director, expounded on the conditions and [...]

I’ve been on the road for almost two weeks, traveling with my two kids in our trusty Dodge Durango with three bikes hooked to the back.  We left Colorado at the end of June and are currently parked in West Virginia, in the shadows of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.  The area we’re in is [...]

My Saturday run happened on Friday.  The newspaper called for HOT again; 98 degrees.  Yesterday it took until 2 pm to get really hot; now that the front is over us, I knew it would happen a lot faster and boy, was I right. The real reason my Saturday morning run happened on Friday instead [...]

I have a huge crush on running.  “Crush” isn’t the right word; it’s not a crush anymore, our relationship has more depth than puppy love.  To be perfectly honest, we’re soul mates.  I love running.  I love how we’ve matured together, weathered so many storms, how there are new nuances to be celebrated each and [...]