Posts Tagged ‘Running’

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 [...]

Saturday’s run was not in the morning, and it wasn’t in Colorado. I got to Ashland last night and spent today eating, reading, resting, talking, eating, talking, reading and sleeping before I finally got around to running.  With no one to entertain, fights to mediate, meals to make or bedtimes to adhere to, I’m suddenly [...]

The wind whipped around something fierce, gusting from the west and making it almost impossible to swallow at times.  She was a thin little thing, weighing maybe a buck twenty with shoes, barely an outline of breasts inside her sports bra, though her legs and caboose fairly radiated power. Her iPod cord was tucked under [...]

Spring is here!  I woke to the smell of rain.  I was born in the Pacific Northwest and the fragrance of precious rain will forever be a visceral experience that instantly transports me to a different time and place.  Thus, it was completely fitting that our weekly Saturday Morning Run took us on a trail [...]

I was excited about today’s run for the pure physicality of it, not to mention the social hour (or two!) of coffee with the ladies afterwards.  I’ve felt isolated from my peeps these past few weeks after helping my Mom through a health crisis (read Thursday Update from the Hospital for the full story), and [...]