I’m starting to think about MdS as a restful vacation with a bit running thrown in. I’m not underestimating the desert...
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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Comfort food
Last night after Eliot came home from a very long day at work, he asked me with deep emotion if we couldn’t go out for Mexican food sometime soon. The man was reared in downtown Houston and Tex-Mex is comfort food. Give him some time in a Mexican restaurant with plates like this being passed around and his cares drop away. So we went [...]
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Fake Lemonade
Asa’s in bed for the night and I’m sitting here at the dining room table drinking fake lemonade . I’d rather drink fake Coke, but that would require a two minute trip to the Kwik-E-Mart — and it’s bad for my bone density — and it’ll ruin any chance I have of falling asleep tonight. (It’s [...]
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Visits!
My parents are coming to visit! Eliot’s hosting a big conference at the beginning of the month and I’m presenting (Mental Health Concerns on Wilderness Expeditions), working the NOLS/WMI booth, and helping out with an interpretive trail run for the attendees. (Sadly Eliot couldn’t work my macrame skills into the four [...]
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Basketballoon
Hello blog peeps. Sorry for the lack of blogging this weekend. I had big miles to run, and soccer games and UTSA Family Days to attend, and more big miles to run and etc. Here is a picture of the balloon “animal” Asa asked the balloon lady at the UTSA Family Days to make for him. Yes, it’s a basketball. Basketballoon. [...]
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Coaching with Tejas Trails
I’m putting a real coaching hat on. I’m going to represent Tejas Trails here in San Antonio. Very exciting. Coaching will happen Tuesday and Thursday evenings at Eisenhower Park at 6pm. I think Eisenhower Park is the perfect venue here in San Antonio to train for Texas races. Heck, I trained for Leadville there too. Actually, [...]
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