During this week of July 4th, we thought we'd take a little time to reflect on runs that are distinctly American: running in suburbia, in your childhood hometown, in unknown cities, among others. Up first: suburbia, a place with which [...]
[[Today brings us back to the Running Through It series; Tish profiles Rhonda Foulds, a #motherrunner who is Running Through Parkinson's Disease. She taken her weight—as well as her disease—under control and recently set an ambitious goal to qualify for Boston.]] [...]
Five Tips for Running in the Heat and Humidity Walk out of any freezingly air-conditioned place in Savannah — airport, hotel, restaurant — into the real world, and BAM! You’re smacked with a steamroom-like wall of heat and humidity. [...]
True confession: I ran this morning so I’d have something to write in my training log. Do you keep a training journal? Or some other kind of record of your running, cross-training (cough), foam-rolling (cough-cough)? Probably you do: 81 percent [...]
About a decade ago, a dear running friend had a double mastectomy and subsequent breast-reconstruction surgery. Once the immediate threat of cancer’s implications were safely in the rearview mirror, my friend, a 40-something nurse and mother of three teens, would [...]
Any woman who’s undergone breast-reduction surgery—or who is contemplating it—knows the number 1 reason to downsize: to get rid of pain. Carrying around a pair of big, big boobs can cause back and shoulder pain, shortness of breath, numbness [...]
My favorite for a few years—loved the colors!—until my feet fell out of love for some unkownable reason. When I started training for my first marathon way back in the Dark Ages of the late 1980s, I was [...]
Guess what, Friends! I won Mother’s Day! But it wasn’t easy. I almost puked! Flashback to last year: On May 14, 2017, I wrote, “Note to self: Next year plan a better Mother’s Day!” On Mother’s Day last year, my [...]
I was sitting in the gate area for my flight out of Newark Airport, flipping through paperwork for that weekend's marathon, when I realized I had made a BIG GIANT MISTAKE. The year was 2005, in the era BC (before [...]
It’s Boston Marathon Monday! Boston represents a lot of FIRSTS for me. First time I qualified for a race. (No, I didn't run track in high school or college.) First time I tasted limoncello — the night before the marathon. [...]
