I've been running outside all winter for a couple of years. Traction devices help get me through.
I hate the treadmill with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. And before I was informed about running outside in the winter safely, I would slog along on the dreadmill for countless boring miles each winter. Continue reading
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After this week's long run, I made the hubby and I homemade lattes.
I don’t want to say my husband (fiance at the time) was glad I got hurt while training for the Racine 70.3 Ironman triathlon earlier this year. But I do think he was glad to get our time together back.
Endurance training takes up a lot of time. A lot of that training time eats into our couple time. Continue reading
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Just before the halfway point, Sue (right) and I are having a blast and running strong. (2011)
In January 0f 2011, I ran my first half marathon… on a cold and windy day… in Chicago. And I loved every minute of it.
It was the race’s 2nd annual running, and I immediately became a fan of the race that’s known as F^3 (or, F***ing Freezing Frozen Lake Half Marathon). Continue reading
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Two reasons to celebrate: 1. Chocolate. 2. I made it to the finish, narrowly missing another running injury.
I had high hopes for Kirsten Ankenbrand’s first run. Her first race was the Hot Chocolate 5K — a short one, because, well, she’s a new runner and the maiden version of herself was still working back up in mileage after May’s injury. Continue reading
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The dog and I pause for a photo during our night-time run.
More than once I’ve driven along Lake Shore Drive after 9 p.m. and, seeing a few runners scattered about the path, wondered, “Who are these crazy people? Don’t they know it’s almost bed time?”
That was before tonight, obviously, when I was one of those crazies. Continue reading
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This is one confident new bicyclist! (youtube.com)
Maybe you’ve seen the viral video posted on YouTube – it’s of a boy who rode his bike by himself for the first time.
He struggles for how to describe it.
“I feel… I feel… I feel… I feel… I feel happy of myself,” he exclaims. Continue reading
The FAQ section on the races website explains how to switch races.
[Note: This post originally appeared on LovingTheRun.com, where I was a guest-blogger.]
I have never considered moving down a race level. Ever. But I must be growing as an athlete, because I recently did just that.
To be clear: It was not easy. Continue reading
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Dan Malinski and I finished up the Have a Heart 5K fun run together on Saturday.
“Your heart chakra is really strong,” my massage therapist told me after our 90-minute session tonight.
I feel that my heart chakra is strong. I am healthy. I am happy. And I have learned from the injuries that plagued me for years; enough to get an intense sports massage when muscle aches start to become persistent.
It’s a fitting phrase, then, for what I had already planned to blog about here tonight: I have joined the American Heart Association’s Start! Running Team. Continue reading
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I did it! I ran my first half marathon in the middle of a Chicago winter.
Almost one year ago, I was getting the diagnosis any runner dreads: a stress fracture would keep me from all the races I had signed up for. Including the Chicago Marathon on 10/10/10. (And as you know by now, the injuries in 2010 didn’t stop there.) Continue reading
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Wear your favorite race shirt, sip your green tip and rest when you're sick (like I did in early Dec. 2010).
Being hurt and not being able to run is painful. But being sick is worse.
Or, at least it feels that way. Continue reading
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