Sometimes nothing soothes the spirit like a day spent in the outdoors – away from the computer monitor and keyboard, the desk and lamp, the debilitating radiation of the television. But this doesn’t always require a journey into the wilderness. This afternoon, after Isobel got up from her nap, Kris and I took the kids [...]
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A friend wrote on my Facebook wall today, “I’m totally burnt out on running…can’t get the motivation! HELP!” That got me thinking. I’ve been feeling burned out this winter as I train for Hyannis. How am I staying motivated to keep up my running schedule, despite horrible weather, grim road conditions and plenty of tweaks and [...]
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Yesterday’s snowy long run provided two positive results to experiments that I thought worth sharing. First, I found out that if you fill your water bottles up with hot water and wear them inside your shell, they won’t ice up. (They froze solid on me the week before.) Not sure if I made this up [...]
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It’s still snowing. Been doing that since yesterday. And it was about twelve degrees when I woke up at 5:15 this morning. It’s pretty likely that this morning’s long run, training for a winter marathon that or no, would have been in the gym, on a treadmill watching television, if it hadn’t been for the [...]
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