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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Sweet potato galette and camp
Ruby is asleep, Eliot and Asa are playing Go Fish at the dining room table, and I’ve got a sweet potato galette in the oven. A pretty good accounting for us Howards. There’s still moldy grout in the shower, piles of laundry, and 73 unanswered emails in my inbox, but… I’m just going to focus on this guy. PS. Here [...]
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Texas winter and Camp Doings
It’s 5am and I’m sitting at the counter drinking coffee and working on an impressive To Do list. It’s so nice and quiet. I’m hopeful Ruby will sleep in past her usual 5:05am wake-up. I’d like to be at least one and half cups of coffee in before the chaos starts. Have you all already seen this? It’s [...]
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Easy peasy
Etymology of Easy Peasy: “The OED’s first citation for the phrase–whose non-rhyming American equivalent is easy as pie–is from 1976, but it originated some years before that in the expression easy peasy lemon squeezy, which may or may not have originated in an advertising slogan for the “washing-up liquid” (aka dish detergent) [...]
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ATRA’s Trail Running Camp Standards
It’s 50 degrees warmer today than it was over the weekend. I thought it was only going to be in the low 50s today, so when I got out of the car to pick up Ruby, I had a quick Summer-is-coming! moment. But it was actually 77 already. Whew. Of course, 77 degrees in January… Summer-is-coming!!! Here’s a great resource [...]
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Treadmill podcast recommendation
Have y’all been listening to the podcast “How I Built This?” If not, it’s great treadmill fodder. I highly recommend the episode on Spanx. Running: 16 miles easy.
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