Tell Me Tuesday: Layering Lessons for Winter Weather
Oh, we know this well: This photo was taken near where Dimity and I first ran in the snow (alas, not together) If you’ve read Run Like a Mother, you know that Dimity and I were both [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: When Illness Strikes while Training
If you look like this while reading this post, 1. No running for you; 2. Consider a cordless phone, retro-mama! I’ll admit: I sometimes struggle to find a topic to write about for this column. But—wait, pardon me [...]
Rock ‘N’ Roll Las Vegas Race Report
Pre-race, Dimity and me looking, ahem, badass I love few things more than what Reader's Digest used to call, "drama in real life." Current events that grab your attention and shock you with each new detail. This week [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: Strength-Training Tools
Trust us: There are better ways to crosstrain this winter! The marriage of running and strength training can sometimes be as challenging as a raising-kids, who's-turn-is-it-to-empty-dishwasher marriage. I struggled for years to find a balance between our beloved [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: See and Be Seen
My pal Heidi says she aims to be "lit up like a Christmas tree" when she runs pre-dawn Saturday at 7 a.m., when I headed out for my weekend long run, it was still shockingly dark--and it stayed [...]
Back to Where It All Began for Me
Lake Moraine: not a grand lake, but I felt grand after my swim there. (Photo taken post-shower on our way out of town.) When women we meet at races or on our Facebook page mention their “runiversary” (the [...]
Even with a BFF, This Running Thing Is…Tough!
Courtenay and I exerting less effort at farmer's market the evening before our run With her in Maryland and me in Oregon, Courtenay and I rarely get to run together. The last time my bestie and I trotted [...]
Returning to My Athletic Roots
Actually this post is about Colgate University, not the toothpaste... Summer 1983. My parents let me go on a solo roadtrip to visit three colleges I was considering applying to, including Colgate University. A liberal arts college in central [...]
Getting In My Miles
A Midwest tour recap that, I promise, will not be like an unsolicited race report: boring + long. O.k., so I just read it over again, and it's a little on the long side, but bear with me. Duluth: A [...]
Brag and Boast, or Simply Stating Fact?
SBS as Glee's shout-it-out Sue Sylvester last Halloween As many of you know, the seed of our book Run Like a Mother was training for the 2007 Nike Women’s Marathon and writing about it for Runner’s World magazine. [...]