Readying to Run

It’s the morning again. Breezes invade
thru open windows, but I am alone
again. I pull on my lime green shorts,
my purple bra. I drink gatorade
and do not miss some meaning
in every movement. Thirteen miles
are all that’s between me
and my self. Once, there was something
more than these sounds, this passion
for something so pointless, something
noone knows but [...]

Run

Yesterday, I ran four miles. I ran out to the deaf topiary gardens and back. Clouds were gathering over head. They were large and faded into a dark grey at their bottoms. It never rained.
I’ve not been running as much as usual lately. I’ve all the usual excuses, but really, [...]

Sloth and Productivity…

On Saturday, I was, as a friend put it, slovenly.  I lay around on the couch all day listening to the radio.  I didn’t get anything done.  I had all these plans, too.  I was going to clean; I was going to go to the Quarter Horse Congress.  I was going to play video games [...]

The Columbus marathon…

is tomorrow.  I still have bronchitis.  I’m freaking out.

Exhaustion

This is how I feel.  Right now I think there could be blood seeping from beneath my eyelids.  A friend told me not to run today.  Like a stubborn jerk, I refused and ran.  I felt like I had little specs of metal in my lungs.  Grrrr.
In much better news, I just got a kitten.  [...]

Nearly there…

Today, I ran the Homestretch 20 miler.  Also known as the longest training run I will do before the Columbus marathon in October.  I chatted with other runners on the course, cheered on the fast people who were on their way back as I just sweated my way to the turnaround point. 
I met a lady [...]

It’s Going to Rain all Day

This weekend the dust was so thick on the trail where I like to run, that by the time I stopped to take off a shoe, it wasn’t the bright red and white that it was when I put it on.  After my eighteen miles, I coughed and coughed.  My throat was dry, no matter [...]

Nutrition and exhaustion

Training for my second my second marathon, I find that I think about food a lot lately.  While I do a long run, I think about what I’d like to eat.  Late at night, I think about what I shouldn’t eat.  I’ve started to crave cheese.  Not cheep oily cheese, either.  Rich, creamy blue cheese.  [...]

New Albany ten miler

I get nervous.  Often, I do it to myself usually.  I decide that my boss wanting a meeting is a sign that she’s going to fire me.  I have trouble meeting new people because I can’t talk to them. 
I go to the bar down the street and get a beer and write in an orange [...]

This weekend

On Sunday, I plan on running a ten miler in the ninety degree heat. 
If I said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times.  We runners are really stupid.  We have the need to run every inch that we even think about running.  There are times when just walking down a sidewalk or along a [...]