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2025 Running Year In Review: Committing To Boundaries

This was a breakout year for me however, it didn’t start in 2025. It was 2024, a year where I plateaued. I didn’t stick to my boundary between work and personal life. I was still running consistently and racing often. On the outside, it looked like things were normal but for me, I knew IContinue reading “2025 Running Year In Review: Committing To Boundaries”

Being an Injury Free Daily Runner: My Step 1 – Building Volume

When I started to become a daily runner, it wasn’t about performance or speed. It was about creating personal space. During the pandemic, I just needed more time to think, to process. Running gave me that time I needed and because of that it ended up becoming a daily routine. Running has always been apartContinue reading “Being an Injury Free Daily Runner: My Step 1 – Building Volume”

Using Audiobooks to Learn a New Language While Running

For the past two months, I’ve been learning Spanish during my training runs. It started as an experiment to see if I could do something with the gobs of hands free time I have while running. I already run almost every day and generally it is for more than an hour. I basically spend whatContinue reading “Using Audiobooks to Learn a New Language While Running”

Grit, Chips, and M&Ms: How Ultras Became My Personal Growth Plan

I didn’t expect one ultra marathon to have such a big impact on my life. When I signed up to do my first last year, I had several marathons under my belt and was at the point that I felt I could comfortably keep going after completing one. I saw there was literally one thatContinue reading “Grit, Chips, and M&Ms: How Ultras Became My Personal Growth Plan”

Exercising Your Grit: A Lifestyle of Personal Achievement

I am an active marathoner though I only came to it in my mid 40ies. I was motivated initially to get faster at my halves and it has definitely done that. In following a regiment of weekly long runs with daily short ones, I finally broke four hours at the Bend, Oregon marathon this year.Continue reading “Exercising Your Grit: A Lifestyle of Personal Achievement”