My Happiest Mile: Jaime’s Moment
With 2022 in the rearview mirror, it’s a delight to reflect back over running accomplishments and favorite events; but it also made us wonder: Is there one mile over the course of your running career that brought you the [...]
My Happiest Mile: Leah’s Validation
With 2022 in the rearview mirror, it’s a delight to reflect back over running accomplishments and favorite events, but it also made us wonder: Is there one mile that stands out over the course of your running career? We [...]
My Happiest Mile: Anna’s Final Push
With 2022 in the rearview mirror, it’s a delight to reflect back over running accomplishments and favorite events, but it also made us wonder: Is there one mile that stands out over the course of your running career? A [...]
My Happiest Mile: Audra’s Beer Mile
With 2022 in the rearview mirror, it's a delight to reflect back over running accomplishments and favorite events, but it also made us wonder: Is there one mile that stands out over the course of your running career? A [...]
The Gift of First Times
Frequent readers might recall that the last time I checked in with Mother Runner Land, my life was in a state of minor upheaval. I weathered that storm, dropped the oldest off at college, and essentially adopted a whole [...]
The Gift of Grace
I don’t know about you but despite my best intentions, the holiday frenzy tends to wear on my nerves. Perhaps it is my introverted tendencies or my stoic Scandinavian roots that rebel against the togetherness and emotional baggage (both [...]
The Gift of Community
Pickleball: Go for the games, stay for the laughs. Honestly, I need to put that phrase on a tee because it’s why I love the game so much. Yes, pickleball feeds my competitive fire, but it’s the between-points jokes [...]
The Gift of Flow
I’m not asking for sympathy, but the flow state—that feeling when hard things become easier, and your mind is so consumed with the task at hand, it doesn't bother with worry—was much easier for me to achieve when I was [...]
The Gift of Friendship
In 2009, I lived in Florida and understood running as something other people inexplicably did. Then, one day, out of the blue, my good friend and fellow teacher Blythe decided that she and I were going to start running. [...]
The Gift of Resilience
Some gifts are easy to unwrap, like the ones from your favorite auntie who puts paper and bows only on the lid of a shirt box so you don’t have to rip and tear to get inside. Then there [...]
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