Liza Howard. Ultrarunning Mom.

Yesterday on the group run at Eisenhower, Tony said he’d been listening to the podcasts on Ben Greenfield’s website.  He said the nutrition ones were pretty interesting and useful.  I decided they’d be good background noise for all the squats and core work I had scheduled today.  The first podcast that came up was actually…Read more

I had great plans to get up before class this morning and write something worthwhile, but the hotel bed was particularly soft and warm, so I stayed curled up under the comforter.  I’m teaching a neat group of students who volunteer to do trail building and maintenance, and habitat restoration.  Seems like I should start…Read more

Hello from the Phoenix airport!  The people-watching is pretty good right now. There’s a 60 year-old guy to my left watching the Rocky Horror episode of Glee on his IPad.  And there are two  women across from me debating whether to buy Frangelica from the Duty Free shop.  My old friend T. is picking me…Read more

Good morning folks.  Thursday’s snuck up on me.  Weren’t we just unpacking the car from Thanksgiving?  (And by “we” I mean Eliot.  I just got out of the car when we pulled into the driveway and never looked back.)  I woke up at four this morning with a disagreeable headache.  My spirits dropped (Enough already…Read more

So yesterday I was whining about the flatness of downtown Houston.  Nothing even resembling a hill to train on for the upcoming race.  But I forgot I still had a free seven-day pass to Lifetime Fitness.  It was one of the prizes from Leadville.  So this morning at six I was sweating my way up…Read more