After last weekend’s trip to visit my folks, my 7 day mileage hasn’t been great.  But I live on a major country road, so night running is frightening.  The thought of going to the gym while resolution-mania is still going on was frightening to me.  I’ve been going to the gym plenty, and it was [...]

Sometimes you don’t realise what you are missing until it’s right in front of your nose. I don’t remember when the last time I went to see my parents was, but it was too long ago.  Even the border official gave me grief for my poor attendance at my parent’s table. I only went home [...]

Men may want to avoid this blog post all together. When I was a competitive athlete in college, we didn’t get to chose when we worked out.  Our team needed us.  Fever was the criteria for if you would show up in the morning.  Even when you were pulled because of injury you would have [...]

Since the stress fracture and other personal matters my running has been mostly fits and starts. It embarrassed me to write about my running and lack thereof in this blog. So this poor little blog lay dormant. I kept meaning to start back up. It just happened that New Years was it. I wanted to [...]

I have been ramping my training back up slowly since recovering from the stress fracture. I’m hoping to still be able to run the Quebec City Marathon at the end of August. But everyone around me are recommending that I drop down to the half marathon to reduce the risk of injury. My only issue [...]

Because: I need an excuse to get out of my house It is August and too hot for my liking Cooper the poodle needs me to exercise him I’m hiking in Colorado later this month I’m running either a marathon or half-marathon in Quebec City later this month I have decided to join in on [...]

Last night my husband and I were outside with our dog. I found our hot pink soccer ball in the garage. Our pup loves to play soccer so I did lots of quick sprints trying to beat the puppy in reaching the ball I kicked. Then my husband joined in and we played together. We [...]

My leg has been feeling a little better lately. So yesterday I decided to join some of my bloggy friends – Dan and Meenakshi of Expedition Kala Patthar – for their weekly 5k fun run. The run was set to run the roads of South Uncanoonuc. One of the mountains that can be seen from [...]

Tonight I am feeling hopeful, hopeful that I will run again, hopeful that I will find a job I really love and hopeful that I will be able to run in the Quebec City Marathon at the end of next month. It started with a morning of feeling really down in the dumps. But after [...]

As I try to very slowly build up some mileage post stress fracture I’ve been doing all my running in my vibram fivefingers. I’ve been doing it because barefoot running allows me feel how much impact I’m putting through my tibia. But my road is a busy country road with gravel shoulders, so I like [...]