• Running
  • A Race in Review

    It’s high time I wrote about our great race experience last weekend. (Particularly since the crazy Boy is running another marathon today. Yes: today.) We drove to Kansas to participate in the Eisenhower Half and Full Marathon. The Boy needed a redemption marathon after having to pull out of the Dallas Marathon because of his […]

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  • A Runner’s “Problem”

    Running is great for losing weight and even more so for reshaping your body. I’ve had the best results at reducing my hip and waist size through regular training runs. There’s just a slight problem with that. My friend S from work pseudo-complained about the same thing on Twitter this week: You know your running […]

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  • My World is Flat(ter)

    My broken foot last summer taught me something. And it wasn’t that I look awesome with an ortho boot on. It’s this: I can’t really wear heels as a daily public transport commuter. The car-to-train-to-office-to-train-to-car hike kills my feet if I’m wearing a traditional heel. {And there was great sadness in the land.} So I […]

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  • The Very Last Cowtown

    This past weekend was the last Cowtown Marathon for the foreseeable future for the Hayley-Wheeler running gang. The five-year special medal series ended with the 2013 race, freeing up February for a new marathon focus. Still, it seemed our 4:30 am wake-up call came very early yesterday morning. Yet look at the happy runners. Very […]

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  • 2013 is Underway

    As we have for the previous four years, we kicked off 2013 by running the New Year’s Day 5 Mile at White Rock Lake. I always write our results, race conditions and anything else of note on the back of our bibs. This year looks like a real mess regarding the latter two: Muddy, slippery […]