Liza Howard. Ultrarunning Mom.

There’s an article about ultrarunning in the magazine that the Honda Motor Company puts out for its Acura owners.  My in-laws own an Acura and passed their Style: Inspiration For The Way Ahead summer edition onto us while we were in Houston this weekend.  You know the sport is growing and changing when Scott Jurek and…Read more

The San-Antonio Express-News did a nice article about Leadville and me and it made the front page.  (The reporter called Friday afternoon to let me know it would be on the front page if nothing big happened in the meantime.  Hurricanes, explosions, swarms of locusts etc.  So you’re all happy I made the A section.)…Read more

We’re headed to Houston for the weekend to give the grandparents an Asa fix.  Eliot’s making dinner and I’m hiding out in the bedroom thinking about packing.  I have not entirely unpacked from my last trip and I’m not excited to do it now.  Perhaps a small nap would help.  Trips to Houston are a…Read more

I spoke to the UTSA Crosscountry team yesterday morning.  It was 6:30am and I worried the conversation would go something like: “Hi.  I’m at least 20 years older than most of you and I spend most of my time with a three year-old.  I run  4 minutes per mile slower than you do, and I’m…Read more

A photographer came to the house yesterday to take some pictures for the article the paper is doing.  She told me to just go about my daily business and pretend she wasn’t there.  Riiiiiiight.  I am not of the Reality TV generation.  I notice people with large cameras in my dirty kitchen.  At one point…Read more