“The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.” This quote from English writer Eli Khamarov so eloquently describes my experience at the inaugural Publix Savannah Women’s Half Marathon this past weekend. I signed up for the race at the beginning of the year to support my friend and coaching client […] Read more
Inspiration is all around us. Sometimes, it is staring us right in the face and we don’t even realize it. I spent the majority of the past week in Tucson, Arizona, for work. I quickly found myself inspired by a cactus – of all things. Running in Tucson is inspiration in and of itself. The […] Read more
On any other day, my run this morning would not be considered exceptional. It wasn’t fast. In fact, it was much slower than the majority of my weekly runs. It wasn’t far … just a little more than 5 miles. It wasn’t the perfect temperature … about 7 degrees with 5 mph winds. On paper, […] Read more
There are some runs we forget nearly the moment they are finished, like the weekday run on the route we’ve covered a hundred times, or the uneventful long run that was just average. But there are other runs that become etched in our brains for eternity – runs we will never forget. Runs that will […] Read more
If you look up the word “racecation” in the dictionary, you won’t find it. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary gives you 10 spell-check alternatives it thinks you might be looking for (recitation, resection, earth station, way station, restitution, recitativo, resignation, lace-curtain, recitative). Lace curtain? Really? Well, make no mistake. This may be a made up word, […] Read more