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Thoughts on surviving marathons,
motherhood, midlife triumphs ...
Thoughts on surviving marathons,
motherhood, midlife triumphs ...
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Boston Profile #19: 'Chronic Runner' Caolan MacMahon
Caolan MacMahon shown near the finish of the Bolder Boulder 10K, Memorial Day 2011
Boston or Boston profile #19, Caolan MacMahon, aka, Chronic Runner, of
Boulder, Colo., is "the thinking person's" runner.
Caolan is a philosophy instructor and her main interests are ethics and social issues. Often she intertwines those subjects with running topics on her blog, www.chronicrunner.com.
Take for ...
Balancing motherhood + running
It's been a rough week on the parenting + running front — the kind where the mama bird in me wants to swoop in and cushion the blow for my babies, but I
can't because it's not in my power to do.
Jane has been in a swimming class that focuses on mastering the technical skills of each stroke. She was hoping to pass out of it and move on to the next level, but she didn't. She ... << MORE >>
Jane has been in a swimming class that focuses on mastering the technical skills of each stroke. She was hoping to pass out of it and move on to the next level, but she didn't. She ... << MORE >>
Lent-friendly, runner-approved pasta recipe
It's lent and following Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition I am eating vegan (no meat except for fish occasionally, and, no dairy or animal byproducts) for the duration until Easter arrives. (FYI, Eastern Orthodox lent started about a week later than for other Christians and we will celebrate Easter about a week later as well.)
Today I made this yummy Pasta Primavera recipe from the April 2012 issue of Good Housekeeping ... << MORE >>
My Favorite Things
Raindrops on roses and Gatorade slushies
Bright colored jog bras on my boobies no crushies,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things ...
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Bright colored jog bras on my boobies no crushies,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things ...
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An American Runner in Paris
Tres bien, mon cheri!!
I want to run the Paris Marathon.
Do you have a bucket list of places you'd love to run? I do and the Paris Marathon is definitely on it.
The other day Forbes posted an article on "The 10 Best Marathon Worth Traveling For," and it included Paris.
Reading the article sparked my wanderlust and hankering croissants and brie. ... << MORE >>
I miss my Rocky ...
Three years ago today I was running on a treadmill at 5 a.m. when I saw on TV that The Rocky Mountain News had printed its final edition.
It made me cry.
I moved to Colorado in November 2003 and I started working for The Rocky Mountain News two months later. It was a great job, and the newspaper had an outstanding reputation. I was thrilled to be there and I liked my work.
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It made me cry.
I moved to Colorado in November 2003 and I started working for The Rocky Mountain News two months later. It was a great job, and the newspaper had an outstanding reputation. I was thrilled to be there and I liked my work.
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Glide, grace and gold medals
Jane is on the verge of conquering the butterfly stroke. She's stoked about it. I am, too.
It's been a joy for me to watch her evolve into a swimmer. Her interest in it began around the same time I qualified for Boston.
Since then we've both come into our own — me as a marathon runner and her as ... << MORE >>
It's been a joy for me to watch her evolve into a swimmer. Her interest in it began around the same time I qualified for Boston.
Since then we've both come into our own — me as a marathon runner and her as ... << MORE >>
Secrets of the "ego whisperer"
The other night I read a comment thread on a social media site that talked about runners who sign ... << MORE >>“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviation pioneer, 1906-2001
Running from the crud and a recipe for fighting it
To run or not the run?
That is the question today as the hacking crud runs its nasty course through Casa de Lucker this week.
Tarzan has been sick and coughing up a lung over me for the last few weeks.
First he had a sinus infection two weeks ago and was antibiotics.
Now he has an ear infection, is on antibiotics again AND I'm sick as well. ... << MORE >>
A Virtual Run for Sherry ...
What would happen to your family if you went out for a run one day and never came back?
That's the nightmare and devastation the family of Sherry Arnold, a Montana woman, is living out now.
Sherry Arnold disappeared in January. Authorities have two suspects in the case but have yet to find her body. ... << MORE >>
