Category: running
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Ritual
2boys and I have established a little ritual that we do on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings right before we leave our church. They made it up all on their own. On our way out, we go to the hallway that connects the main office hallway with the chapel and the lounge. It is a…
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For the Run of It: Uplifting & Humbling
I love running. (But I didn’t always, remember?) I love running because of how it uplifts and humbles you all at once. It uplifts you whenever you finish anything – even if it was just an easy run. It humbles you when you can’t even finish an easy run due to injury or fatigue or stomach troubles. (If the Olympic marathoners…
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Yay! and a Giveaway for Three Winners
Yay yay yay! for Carla F. and Janelle R. who went for a run in response to my March 24 post How to Be a Runner Vol 2: Start Now. Carla posted a comment and Janelle “cheated” and texted me. I’m oh-so-happy to be just a smidgen of inspiration to both of you. As I…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 4. Don’t live to run.
Run to live. Don’t live to run. My life is better with running in it, but running is not my life. A word of advice about how to be a runner and stay motivated? Don’t let running become your everything. Don’t let it become the thing you obsess over or the thing that defines you.…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 3. Find a friend.
Finding a running partner is unarguably both the most difficult and most rewarding thing to start and keep you motivated to run. I’m lucky. I have Megan. We’re a perfect fit. We run at just the right pace. We talk just the right amount and about all kinds of things. We inadvertently take turns challenging…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 2. Start now.
If you aren’t a runner but want to be one: Start now. Stop reading this blogpost, lace up your shoes, and go for a jog. Just move those legs, even if you only jog very slowly for 3 minutes. Then come back, read the rest of the post and post a comment that says you…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 1. “I wish I could be a runner.”
I hated running. I played track in high school but only socially, and would frequently find reasons to walk most of our longest jaunts. The burning lungs, the shortness of breath, the sore and tired muscles. What is there to like? Some people make it look so glamorous, but it feels as far from glamorous…