Liza Howard

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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Seventh Circle?

I am in the seventh circle of hell at the Houston airport. You don’t have to have been to IAH to know the place I’m talking about. It’s the waiting area for the small planes that you have to take an escalator down to, with the low ceilings and stained blue carpet. I haven’t read any Dante since college — so this [...]

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100,000 mile tune up

I haven’t walked into anything since we last talked.  The fourth toe on my left foot is a great shade of black and blue, but it seems like I’ll be running without a hobbling, gimpy gait by tomorrow.  I was at the doctor’s office for a 100,000 mile tune up yesterday and he allayed my panic that I’d broken another foot. [...]

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New food log format

I’m recording my food log on MyFitnessPal now.  It’s an easier format and simpler to use that Training Peaks. This is the meal plan for tomorrow.  The day got away from me today after the 30 minute run with Tony (during which I saved a turtle) (and enjoyed my friend’s company immensely). Running log: 30 minutes (foot still [...]

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Family in town

We have family in town this weekend and spent the day enjoying their company.  We all just got back from a game of freeze tag at Eisenhower Park.  The sweaty little boy has been given a bath and Kerry, one of Asa’s grandmother’s, is on bedtime story duty.  I got to run with most all of my running buddies this morning for the [...]

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