My sore throat came on suddenly on Tuesday afternoon, and hurt badly enough to keep me up a while that night. The cold I thought I’d fought off last week was back with a vengeance, leaving me in a tea-chugging, soup-eating, Tylenol Sinus-popping cold haze all day yesterday.
Still, I spent a good hour yesterday afternoon [...]
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December 3, 2009
Taking care of myself
December 2, 2009
Running with Back on My Feet Baltimore
One morning last spring, I woke up at 4:30 a.m., aiming to be on the road to head to Baltimore no later than 4:45 a.m.
It was my first meeting with Back on My Feet Baltimore, a group that aims to get homeless people back on their feet by getting them into a structured running program, [...]
December 1, 2009
Kicking myself out the door
I woke up yesterday in a Mood.
You know the kind of Mood I’m talking about — when you don’t feel like working, dread the day’s workout hours beforehand and question the motives behind even your most cherished beliefs and most staid routines. One of those.
The mood lingered even after a morning of work, so it [...]
November 30, 2009
Motivation Monday: Strength edition
An injured runner-friend and I were recently talking about lifting — you know, the strength-training we runners tend to ignore until we get hurt and are chastised by a smart physical therapist who says we should know better. My friend and I agreed that when we stop lifting and then start again, we literally feel [...]
November 27, 2009
We eat hills for breakfast: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Turkey Chase 10K
Everyone warned me about the hills.
Somehow, the constant rise and swell of the YMCA Bethesda-Chevy Chase Turkey Trot 10K course still took me by surprise. Spectators even held signs saying: “Love those hills!”
Steve and I decided ahead of time we’d be running this race to have a good time, not to run one. My recently [...]
November 25, 2009
Carrot and stick, part deux
I just didn’t feel like running last night.
Steve and I have both been fighting off a weird “maybe it’s a cold, maybe it’s not” throat-scratchiness, and running into the chilly darkness just didn’t seem appealing.
Then, we got an e-mail from our group-run organizer announcing we’d be going to Chipotle after the run. Chipotle changes everything.
We [...]
November 24, 2009
A runner-friendly Thanksgiving: turkey trot, recipes
I participated in my first-ever turkey trot last Thanksgiving, and I’m convinced this is one of the nicest possible Turkey Day
traditions a healthy family can adopt. There’s a trot almost everywhere, so even when you’re traveling, it’s possible to get in a good workout — and get a taste of that city’s running community. Last [...]
November 23, 2009
Motivation Monday: The “run happy” edition
I never thought I’d be one of those runners who obsesses about split times and speedwork and PRs. In my short high school cross-country career, I was never fast enough to really give that stuff much thought. Swimming provided my competitive fix, and even after I graduated high school and quit swimming, I was happy [...]
November 22, 2009
Sugarloaf Mountain photos
Is there a better way to spend a fall Sunday than running up and down a mountain a couple times (literally — it was so much fun, we went twice!), then hitting up the vineyard at the bottom of the mountain for a wine tasting? That’s what we did today at Sugarloaf Mountain, a lovely [...]
November 20, 2009
How ankle pain can turn into hip pain
Remember that song “Dem Bones?” “Your thigh bone connected to your hip bone …”
I’m learning anew just how true that is.
A really smart physical therapist pointed out that my my original hip problems seemed to stem from an ankle sprain at a friend’s wedding in 2007. A flareup last spring/summer stemmed directly from a separate [...]
