Just One Thought: Help.
I ran a 5K on Saturday; and my house, this past week, was full of vomit, lice, and jackhammers; I was going to write about one of those things for this post. But the events in Newtown on Friday gave me–and all of us, I’m betting–a massive reality check.
I was lucky enough to have a few lice-free, puke-free, quiet moments this weekend, and used them to sit down with Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Anne Lamott’s new sliver of a book that is wise and funny and so relatable. I am a huge AL fan, and as I was reading this passage, which takes the personal and broadens it to the universal and horrifically current, I had to share…
Running while on Vacation
With Sarah headed south of the border for a family get-away, the mother runners talk about the in’s and out’s of exercising while away from home. They talk about the guilt of taking time away from the family—and about the necessity of getting that alone-time. Dimity and Sarah weave in helpful suggestions culled from their Facebook page, including the best ways to find routes in new locales. And, as a bonus, find out what a “stricture” is—and why Sarah loves a life without them.
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Who Should Win the NordicTrack C1750 Treadmill? Vote, Please!
Yesterday afternoon, after the tragic news out of my home state of Connecticut, I was in desperate need of some solace, humor, and a reminder that people are inherently good. So I turned to the 1,468 entries we received in our giveaway of a NordicTrack Commercial 1750 treadmill. Short yet so powerful, these 6-word sentences proved time after time that there are so many clever, creative, and caring people in this world. Just as had happened the first time I read through them, tears sprung to my eyes–sometimes from laughing, but more often because I was moved.
Dimity and I combed through the entries with a fine-toothed comb, and we still couldn’t decide on a single winner…
What Would Another Mother Runner Do?
In our semi-regular installments of What Would Another Mother Runner Do (WWAMRD), we’ve heard the dilemmas of Christy, who forgot to pack a sports bra for her midday run; Kelin, who slipped on a banana peel during a marathon, dislocating her hip; and Ellison, who scared off a would-be predator with some quick thinking. Today we introduce to you Andrea, a mother of two from Houston and long-time runner, whom we met on a lovely fall morning at ZOOMA Wisconsin. She was there with a load of mother runner friends, who had all dubbed themselves the Runwells. (The group got its name from Chicago corner–Rockwell Avenue–where they met/meet every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 a…
Follow This Mother!
Stroller running mama extraordinaire Lindsey Hein (she’s logged a 20-mile training run while pushing son Marshall!) is training to run a 3:15 marathon this spring, the Yuengling Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach, Va. One of her training tactics? Two weeks in, run 26.2 with negative splits, which she did last weekend—she crossed the finish line with a time of 3:29:21 at the Rehoboth Beach Marathon. Lindsey and husband Glenn, of Indianapolis, Ind., ran their first marathon together just before their 2008 wedding. After their third marathon, the couple began writing about their miles together…
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