I SUPPOSE I SHOULD THANK MY CATS for helping me get in my run Sunday morning. To finish in time for church, I needed to be out the door by 7:15. But when I woke up and glanced at the bedside clock, it read 7:10. Figuring I’d missed my window, I settled back in for …
Raining? Just Run!
IT WAS RAINING WHEN I GOT TO RUNNING FIT WEDNESDAY EVENING, but that was okay. Maybe it would stop by 6:30, or maybe Coach Marie would delay the run a while. It didn’t and she didn’t, so out into the rain we went. You might think that running in the rain isn’t much fun – …
T Minus 4 Weeks
JUST FOUR WEEKS TO GO UNTIL CHICAGO and my first marathon. With 20 miles still feeling like it’s my physical limit, how I’m going to coax out 6.2 miles more remains a mystery to me. I mentioned this to a friend of mine at Zingerman’s Bakehouse (a great place to go for pastries and running …
Sugar, Salt, and – Soap?
ONE OF THE RULES OF LONG-DISTANCE RUNNING is to hydrate and fuel adequately throughout and following the run. The rule after that one ought to be: Don’t ignore the previous rule. Up at our campground near the Sleeping Bear Dunes for the Labor Day weekend, I prepared for my assigned Saturday 18-mile run. My plan was …
RUN COFFEE WRITE 