Category Archive for: ‘Musings’
50 shades of hilarious
**Warning…this post is not for the easily offended or for kids or for my mom or for my missionary sister…so consider yourself warned and watch at your own risk. I disclaim any responsibility for corruption or sinful thinkings.** A friend (you know who you are) …
Running the Numbers
It’s official. I am obsessed. I haven’t quite progressed to compulsive, but I have progressed from infatuation to obsession. Six years ago, I found myself interested in running, which evolved to infatuation, and now has evolved to complete obsession. But strangely, the obsession isn’t over …
Fear of Fast
Have you ever been scared of something and you don’t know why? When I was a little kid, we took a short, late summer vacation trip to Amelia Island, Florida, which is just north of Jacksonville where I grew up. My parents rented a condo …
Almost there
I am almost done putting the site back together, but unfortunately the photos attached to all of my posts are gone. Yes, yes, I still have them on my computer, but it would take quite some time to reupload them into WordPress and then re-embed …
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D2E Update: No Complainin’ ‘bout the Trainin’ but Could do More for the Core
Training has been going really well. Who knew that intervals really work? Not THIS girl…until now anyway. I still got a long way to go, but my “easy” pace is getting faster, my “cruising” pace is getting faster, and those God-awful tempo miles are getting …
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A Runner Apparition
There was a dark lecture hall, a thousand plus miles from my home. The aged hall, 150 years old, was the size of a football field. Large, thick pillars lined each side of the hall. The plastered, vaulted ceiling, criss-crossed with dark beams of wood …
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Have you run with a buddy lately?
During the fall of 2005, when I was a young, spritely 37 years old, RB moved in next door to me…she was 33. We hit it off right from the beginning. Like me, she was a mother to young children, career-minded, and liked books and …
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A Theory of Relativity
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955) The other night, my 9-year-old daughter slept in bed with …
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My Winter of Missing
Old Man Winter has been taking a bit of a respite this season—there have been none of his usual passionate tossings about of ice and snow and none of his usual winter spells wielded by thin white fingers of still air timelessly locking a single …
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In the meantime…watch this.
I am working on a new running post. It’s all swimming around up there in the gray matter. I swear. These things take time. In the meantime, watch this. Running? no. Funny? Yes.
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D2E update: Living life in the fast lane
This weekend, I noticed that my boobs had dropped about half an inch lower and my butt was just a little flatter, if that is even possible. My chicken neck was a bit more chicken-y, and I heard myself say at least three times to …
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And I ran…
We all love stats. How fast? How far? How many? Did I improve? Using my log from Daily Mile, I figured out the following. I covered 1,000 miles in 2011 exactly. I was a little disappointed when I realized that the 1,000 miles included some …