Tag: Running

  • 13.1

    Susan, Beth & Jen photo courtesty of Susan Heid at The Confident Mom Well, shoot.  That half marathon wasn’t going to run itself. Remember the half marathon I was going to do?  And then the same one that I wasn’t gonna do?  Now it’s the one that I just DID! That’s right. If you’ve been…

  • On Trying, Failing, and the Importance of Showing Up

    I can think no better way to usher in my 38th birthday than by running a half-marathon. Woohoo!  The wind in my hair.  Legs hitting the pavement in a steady thump-thump.  Butt rising and ker-plopping with each stride. Coincidentally, I turn 38 this Thursday, October 13th and I’m registered to run a half-marathon on Sunday the…

  • I’m calloused.

    I went running today. 3.7 miles Now, 3.7 miles is a LOT farther than running to my mail box.  Which I used to couldn’t do.  (Go with me on that grammar thing; it was kinda fun for me.) But 3.7 is clearly not as far as I need to run for the half-marathon my nutsoid…

  • My Before

    Last week, I wrote about Feelin’ Groovy, or choosing to be in a groove instead of in a rut. One of my current, generalized, I’ll-have-no-idea-when-I-actually-achieve-it goals is to live a healthy, active life. That’s been a particular challenge and something that has taken an incredible amount of head space. I was a healthy weight as…