Staying Motivated To Run Without Races
I make no secret of the fact I’m terrible about running regularly when I’m not training for a race. Give me training plan and a race day and I’ll run religiously. Tell me to run just because I can? Yeah, […]
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Picking a Marathon Training Plan
Before you run a marathon, before your first long run, you need to have a plan that will get you start line ready. First and foremost, let me say, yes, you need a plan. You cannot wing it when running […]
Mindful Running
At its core, running is a pretty mindless activity. You put one foot in front of the other and repeat for between 1 minute to 10 hours. This is the reason some people hate running and find it boring. It’s […]
Things I Hope I Never Again Take For Granted
There are so many cliches about the time we are living in. That it’s the ‘new normal,’ or ‘unprecedented.’ But there will come a time when things begin to return to something resembling normal. I’ll leave the predictions about when […]
9 Kid’s Books About Running
Awhile back, I was pacing a race (remember those? You’d get together and run with other people at the same time! What a concept!) and got talking to one of my runners who was the mom of two kids. She […]
Making The Most Of Your Virtual Race
When I first wrote about virtual races a few years ago, they were still fairly obscure. I’d done a few virtual races with niche fandom running clubs for Harry Potter and Dr. Who. A few of the major running series […]
The Big List Of Running Journal Prompts
This is an odd time for us runners. Races are cancelled. Group runs are off. Many of us have drastically cut down (if not entirely cut out) our running. But even if we are temporarily sidelined from running, we are […]
Why You Should Focus On Process Based Running Goals
While running a race last year, I realized I enjoy training for races more than I like actually running them. Races give me a structure and a focus to my running, but race days are filled with high expectations, crowds, […]
Everything You Need To Thrive In Self-Isolation You Learned From Running A Marathon
I’m far from the first person to compare our current shelter in place/quarantine/self-isolation situation to running a marathon. Some politician referring to dealing with coronavirus as ‘a marathon and not a sprint’ should be an important square on any pandemic […]
The 2020 Oakland Marathon: A Recap of the Marathon That Wasn’t
I was supposed to be the leader of the 4:40 pace group at the Oakland Marathon on March 22. Then, I was supposed to write a recap of that race in this blog post. So many ‘supposedas’ aren’t happening the […]
