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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A Calling 71/365
I was working with a new co-instructor this weekend, and I was so busy giving her feedback that I forgot to encourage the class to bring donuts to class until they were leaving for lunch today. It was going to be the first donut-free class in a long while, and I was feeling sad about the broken streak. But at 12:50pm, a student walked in with [...]
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Get on the bus! 70/365
I’m teaching at the Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center outside of Dallas. That’s Joe Pool Lake in the background. The people who take these Wilderness First Aid courses are similar enough that I often feel like one class is a continuation of another. It’s not so much that I expect the students to already know the subject matter, [...]
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Mom ennui and possums 69/365
Today is the day the kids both go to school. It’s a day to get things done. To run far. I did not. I got the kids to school, got dressed to run, and then I got back into bed. I stayed there until 2pm. I didn’t read anything useful. I picked the kids up, made popcorn, dropped the kids off at a friend’s house and took a Lyft [...]
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Fast forward 68/365
Today was one of those days that feels like it was fast forwarded. There was breakfast with Eliot and the kids. I got Asa off to school. I picked him up from school, I ran interference between Ruby and the cat. I ate a box of graham crackers. And now it’s bedtime. It’s not a day to be proud of. But no one was injured. Everyone [...]
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Garmin Death, Loss and Sabotage 67/365
My second to last Garmin died a fairly horrible death after years of sweat-soaked service. Both of its wrist straps had broken off and it’d subsequently slipped out of my hands so many times that its screen was cracked and hard to read. I was thankful when it finally refused to charge one day — for it and for me — though [...]
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