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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Don’t know everything
Were you worried about me? The paper pile almost killed me, but after two full days of labor and one deep paper cut, I have triumphed. Eliot took Asa to Houston for the weekend and I just sat and worked and wrote training plans and budgeted and worked — and rearranged a few pieces of furniture — and made a valence. Showered [...]
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Daaaadgum!
I am not allowed to get up from the table today until this pile is gone. (Unless it’s to do my leg and core workout — or run.) This pile needs to go away too. There are also 253 e-mails in my in-box that I need to work my way through. (That’s right, if you’ve been waiting to hear from me, today’s the day.) [...]
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Mimosas next year
Thought I was going to miss my blog post did you? Oh no! I’m here on Valentine’s Day writing training schedules for folks and rolling my foot over a lacrosse ball and blogging — by the light of a heart shaped candle a friend gave me. Asa’s Valentine’s M&Ms are within reach, but I am exercising some self [...]
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Sleet and cold student toes
It sleeted on me and the young students out at Enchanted Rock on Sunday! Sleeted! As if it were February and we weren’t in south Texas. The little students were cold before the sleet and popsicle-like afterwards. I spent a great deal of energy running them around to keep them warm. I also bared my belly for some hand and foot [...]
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A sign
I wish I’d asked for a sign yesterday morning. “Lord, please give me a sign if I should run Umstead.” “Lord, please give me a sign if now’s the time to teach Asa to wipe himself.” “Lord, please give me a sign if I should buy that Patagonia puffy jacket.” Because this is what I saw on the [...]
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