Thanksgiving is here, a holiday I would normally start celebrating with a Turkey Trot 5K. But this year is a bit somber. In my June post “Time is All We Have” I wrote about my running buddy, Jane, who was very ill. Sadly my friend lost her life a few months later. Normally Jane would … Continue reading Keep Going
Life Lessons
All You Have Is Now
I once worked with an amazing woman, Leslie, who I have long admired. She was everything I would like to be - beautiful, athletic, intelligent, tall. Leslie was a master swimmer who also had completed Ironman (Ironwoman?) Triathlons. When I started training for my first marathon, Leslie was one of the people I turned to … Continue reading All You Have Is Now
Moving Through Loss
During my training runs I spend my time thinking about all sorts of things. Most recently I have been thinking about skills I believe are important to a successful life. I googled and discovered the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and UNESCO have identified the ten most important life skills. (Apparently I wasn’t the only one … Continue reading Moving Through Loss
One-of-a-Kind Day
"Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life."Joyce Meyer In one of the Christmas cards I received was a note from the sender. He commented it had been a long time since I posted in my blog. I can't argue with him because it has been a long time. … Continue reading One-of-a-Kind Day
We Still Need Good Samaritans
Facebook has a Memories feature where posts from years past will pop up. Most of the time they are reminders of some place you visited, a funny thing that happened, or a photo from a wonderful day. Since Memories can't distinguish good ones from unpleasant ones, you can be reminded of something not so happy. … Continue reading We Still Need Good Samaritans
You Gotta Have Balance
At the end of last year, I asked my running coach for a week off. To be honest I was burned out. I had trained intensely all year to run three marathons. Mentally, I just wanted to check out for a bit and not be driven by a training schedule. It seemed as if my … Continue reading You Gotta Have Balance
To Tell The Truth
I recently celebrated a birthday, the kind where you move into a new decade. I wasn’t looking forward to getting older. I decided to do the only thing on my birthday that a funatical runner can do - run a half marathon. My birthday was on a Sunday so it was easy to find a … Continue reading To Tell The Truth
A Life Lesson from Mr. V.
My running adventures (and my blog posts) have been sporadic since July because, well, life got in the way. That is my way of saying I have had two relatively minor health issues to deal with. I don’t do inactive very well. If you want to make me very depressed, tell me I can’t run. … Continue reading A Life Lesson from Mr. V.
Enjoy Yourself!
It’s the end of the year - a time when people reflect on what they did in the last 12 months and look ahead to what they have planned for the new year. Many of us have a “bucket list”, a list of things we dream of doing someday. Someday is that magical time … Continue reading Enjoy Yourself!
Extending a Hand
In my high school psychology class, we learned about the bystander effect, or “Genovese Syndrome”, named for Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old woman who was stabbed to death outside her New York City apartment in the middle of the night in 1964. In the newspaper account of her murder, it was reported no one came to … Continue reading Extending a Hand
Adventures of a Funatical Runner 