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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Asthmatic racing
I listened to the National Anthem at the starting line of the JFK 50 yesterday prepared to deal with anything the race threw at me — besides an asthma attack that eventually had me on the ground covered in leaves committed to trading in my running shoes for a remote control and a premium Netflix subscription. I don’t think of [...]
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Good morning
(Making grown men giggle.) This is the first morning I’ve woken up in a long while thinking about plans for the future. I used to be the Queen of 5-Year Plans. I pulled out a piece of graph paper, and I was just about to get vision-ing when Ruby started hollering from the back bedroom. She’s decided not to observe the switch [...]
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If you need uplift
Eliot’s cousin posted this earlier: “Today fear and hate and deception won. But we know that’s not the end of the story. Love and truth and redemption will be victorious.” Agreed. And here is something uplifting if you’re in need of uplift this morning: Alexander Aciman’s, “How a Lifetime of [...]
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Sandbagged
I drove up to Boerne on Saturday for a long run with my buddy, Stefan. We both had a 25-mile run on our schedule, and I was glad for the company; My motivation to run alone on the road is at a low ebb. On Friday, Stefan called to see if it’d be okay if our friend, Dave, joined us. I hadn’t seen Dave in a long [...]
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