Liza Howard

Liza Howard

Liza Howard is a long-time is a longtime ultrarunner who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She teaches for NOLS Wilderness Medicine, coaches, directs the non-profit Band of Runners, and drives her kids around in a minivan.

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Liza Howard

Liza Howard is a long-time is a longtime ultrarunner who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She teaches for NOLS Wilderness Medicine, coaches, directs the non-profit Band of Runners, and drives her kids around in a minivan.


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Closed for hunting

Park is Closed! Hunting in Progress.  USE CAUTION. That’s what the signs read when I got to the outskirts of Bandera (Hill Country State Natural Area) today.  I drove back down the road a little ways until I got cell reception and called the park.  A very nice lady with a British accent assured me there was no mistake; The park was [...]

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Seconds

I made an awesome lentil and rice dish last night.  No one had seconds — after Asa vomited all over the dinner table.  He hadn’t been sick;  It was just a random three year-old vomit.  Eliot and I are a good vomit clean-up team seven years into our marriage.  Within minutes it was if nothing had happened.  Asa was happily [...]

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The goose is getting fat

Eliot made a fire in our fireplace last night.  We pulled our wingback chair in front of it and spent the evening rotating people through that warm and cozy spot.  OK, actually, there wasn’t much rotating.  I was tired from the run out at Bandera and I hogged the chair and ottoman.  I did let Asa squeeze in beside me from time to [...]

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New Balance MT101s at Bandera?

I wore the New Balance MT101s out at Bandera today to see how they’d do in all the rocks.  I heart these shoes, but they seem like a bit of a risk on some of Bandera’s downhills.  Chunky rocks, lying on top of more chunky rocks,  lying on top of unstable smallish rocks.  Or just piles of chunky rocks on a steep hill.  If you [...]

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Home Sweet Home

I got a nice big welcome home hug and kiss from Bandera today.  The picture doesn’t do justice to how well the blood blended into the red swirls of my gaiters.  On the upside, everyone agreed it was one of the ugliest wounds they’d seen out there in a while.  I’m going to try to avoid a repeat performance tomorrow.  I [...]

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