It’s been 46 days since I’ve run. Forty-six days ago I hurt myself while training for a half marathon. I was devastated. I read up on running injuries and followed all the advice – I iced, I took ibuprofen, I stretched, I rested, you name it. After a torturous week of
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Once again, I have a bunch of random thoughts rattling around in my head, so it seems like a good time for another one of these posts. This post is an idea I stole from here . Questioning: I am hoping my fellow moms can help me with my picky eater problem. I’ve shared before
*Photo Courtesy of one of my awesome CTWM mother runners* When I was pregnant, and concerned about losing all of the newly acquired baby weight, my Mom assured me that it would just come off after I had the baby- and then, “Oh, you’ll be chasing after your kids, it’ll just come right off!” I
After having my sons I started running with the sole intention of losing the baby weight. Since then I’ve had a love/hate relationship with running. I ran a few 5Ks this spring and felt pretty good about myself, but then something inside of me changed and I started to question, “If I can run 3.1 miles, could
As I write this I am three weeks into a prescribed 4 week hiatus on exercise. In my post two weeks ago I shared that I ran the Mystic 1/2 Marathon injured which only injured me more. The orthopedic told me I needed 4 weeks off to allow my LCL tear to heal. This prescription
If there is one thing I have learned from the senseless and incomprehensible events that unfolded at this year’s Boston Marathon, it is this- Runners are resilient. Runners help other runners. In the face of great tragedy and trauma, runners run on to let the world know that they are unstoppable. That no matter what you do,
