Full of Run
I love this time of year. Several thousand people around the area will complete half or full marathons over the next month. Those crack-of-dawn long runs to avoid the heat, those sweaty, muscle-burning track workouts, the painful (but necessary) foam rolling to keep injuries at bay all cul…
Read More ›Grow Your Marathon Beard
You survived the summer. The long runs. The workouts. The mileage. The Oh-My-Gosh-I-Think-I-Broke-My-Femur-Please-Say-I-Didn’t-Break-My-Femur injury that turned out to be a tight hip flexor. You outlasted your IT band in a September-long game of Russian roulette. And finally—merc…
Read More ›Progress Not Perfection
Shooting for perfection is like hunting for a unicorn. It is an exercise in futility. We all strive and push and pray for that perfect performance. However, to become the athlete (and person) we want to become, we should strive for progress, not perfection. Perfection is a destination…
Read More ›Run Crazy in Love
I’m in love—like, seriously in love—with a lot of things. Hoodies. Short stories. Coffeehouses. Forest Park. Pimento-stuffed olives. Mariachi bands. Trucker hats. Falafel. Retro wayfarer sunglasses. I’m also in love with a lot of people. Charles Dickens. Mark Twain. S…
Read More ›Becoming a Runner ? A Pictorial Comedy
When you first decided to run, you were full of optimism and aspiration. Usain Bolt who? Wait until the world saw you! Harnessing your delusions of grandeur, you laced up your shoes for your first run. You flew across the surface of the earth. And then you hit the two-minute mark. I…
Read More ›Women of Valor
Every day, the war wages. In television commercials and in pop music. In movie theaters and on magazine covers. On the sidelines at professional sporting events and on the runways of the fashion industry. In formal expositions and in our everyday vernacular. On the streets in broad daylight.…
Read More ›Thinking One Can
Have you ever stopped to think just how much setting a goal and training to reach it is like the story of the little engine that could? The big strong engines were afraid to tackle the mountain; it was the little engine that kept moving upward. We all have an intimidating mountain looming b…
Read More ›It Takes Two (Or More)
The chances of a successful workout were slim. After all, my track record wasn’t exactly stellar. No, literally. The track and I are on the fritz. With a marathon looming a short five weeks away, I should have had a solid four or five speed workouts under my belt already. Inste…
Read More ›I Dare You
On April 21st, 2014, Meb Keflezighi became the first American since 1983 to win the Boston Marathon. With a resume that also includes the 2004 Olympic Silver Medal in the marathon, the 2009 New York City Marathon win, a 4th place finish in the marathon at the 2012 Olympics, and an Ameri…
Read More ›Famous Quotes Translated into Running Advice
Endurance sport provides a grand metaphor for life, does it not? Therefore, one would assume that if wisdom gleaned in distance running can be applied to our everyday lives, wisdom from our everyday lives would return the favor. And what do you know? It does. “With the possible except…
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