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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Immortality and UltrAspire
You know, looking back I never thought I’d be considered an elite anything. (Yes, that’s a bandana I’m wearing — among other things. You’ll have to leave a comment for the full story.) Yeah, no elite glimmers here either. (An oldie but a goodie.) But more than that, I certainly had no inking I might ever [...]
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Heat tested GUs
This is what comes of doing four loads of laundry at a time. Happily those little GU packets are pretty sturdy. The question is: Should I still eat them? I’m know I’m not going to find the answer on the FAQs section of GU’s website. And I don’t quite feel up to a “Hi, this is going to be a strange question, [...]
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Nyquil and monsters
I picked up a bug over the weekend and spent most of Saturday and Sunday playing phlegmy sick person. Happily no one else in the house was sick, — so they could tend to me. (Eliot made me an apple pie. It was like the traditional apple sauce and toast sick person fare, but so much better. Try it the next time you’re bedridden.) [...]
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Pictures, bribery and parenting
Sorry for the blog outage. I’ve been mourning the death of my Garmin 305. Wailing, gnashing teeth, and checking prices of Garmins on Amazon. Anybody like the 410? So there’s a chance Asa and I might have our picture in a magazine. Very exciting. And if it happens, I want you to know the backstory. For one reason and another, [...]
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Drink chocolate milk!
I promised a story about bribery and intrigue, but that’s going to have to wait a day until I vent a bit about Borden Milk Products and Elsie the Cow. I’d like to start by saying that I think chocolate milk is great. And that I know nothing about the Borden Milk Products beyond the fact that they make milk products — [...]
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