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I’ve spent the past several days in D.C., and on Saturday morning, I enjoyed a lovely trail run in Rock Creek Park with some of my favorite running buddies. The route was a little longer than I would have chosen … Continue reading →

There are lots of reasons I sign up for races rather than simply going on nice, relaxed 5-milers, as I’ve been happily doing for the past several months. One of the chief reasons is motivation: To push harder, to go … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, as we were sitting on the couch and prepping for dinner in our still-new home in Virginia Beach, we spied something interesting through our glass front door. Roughly a dozen people clad in neon vests, technical … Continue reading →

I’m back. Back to regular deadlines, back to grocery lists and prescriptions to fill, back to bills and vacuuming and the other mundane tasks that fill most of our everyday lives. The silver lining: I am also back to regular … Continue reading →

On Monday, March 12, we embarked on the Ed Reinink memorial ski tour with a lucky charm in tow: My dad’s favorite hat (a gift from me and Steve, as were the patches he sewed on it). It kept us … Continue reading →

We were on our way to the airport for a ski vacation to the Alps a couple weeks ago when I got the call that my dad had been referred to hospice. We re-routed our trip to Florida to be … Continue reading →

Amy is on vacation, and will be posting sporadically until mid-March.

“Crap,” I thought as I stopped to catch my breath and regain my composure after making a few ugly, graceless moves while running a toboggan down White Lightning, a steep, icy mogul run at Sno Mountain in Scranton, Penn. It … Continue reading →

There are a lot of injuries going around these days. Both in the health-and-fitness blogosphere and in my non-Internet life, the past week has brought news of several friends being benched, from a runner-friend with a torn calf muscle to … Continue reading →