Being a mother is stressful. Some days, you feel like a lion tamer in charge of monkeys while juggling fire batons. Blindfolded. And those are the good days. On the rough days, the ones where I can’t take it one more minute, I run away from home. No, really, I actually lace up my running […]
The Seven People You Meet In Spin Class
I came to the world of exercise later in life. And, by later in life, I mean I had to start exercising after two kids, two C Sections and turning thirty because it turns out, when these things happen, your thighs look remarkably different from when you were in your teens and twenties. Around the […]
7 Truths No One Told Me About The Reality Of Running (But I’ll Tell You)
I started running in 2006 and no one told me about the toenail thing. Or the chafing thing. Oh, the chafing. Runners far and wide suffer for their craft in ways that mere mortals may never understand. Sore muscles, purple toenails, vomiting at finish lines and having to put Body Glide in places that God […]
The Day I Swam In A Lake Full Of Goose Poop In A Triathlon (Yes, Really)
“Let’s get something straight: I don’t do lakes and I do NOT do goose poop”. This is the phrase I repeatedly uttered to my running girlfriends every time they mentioned the possiblity of me joining them in a triathlon. The notion of voluntarily getting into a murky lake to swim with fish, geese and water […]
You Never Forget Your First Time
Let’s get something straight: until eight years ago, I only ran when chased. While in high school, I participated in sports and I use that term loosely because by “sports,” I mean Color Guard and spring musicals. In college, exercise came in the form of brisk walks around my campus to work off beer calories […]