Kathie’s Blog: Keep On Truckin’
Right now, instead of writing this, I should be in the middle of a 6-7 mile run. Or, I should already be home from it, showered and feeling smug. But the fact is I am the world’s worst marathon...
View ArticleKathie’s Marathon Training Blog: The Biggest Loser
As someone who is allegedly training for a marathon that is only a month away, I am a total loser. Want proof? There is plenty of it. First off, the mantra for this training is supposed to be “No...
View ArticleKathie’s Marathon Training Blog: Twenty Ugly Miles and the Home Stretch
My training for the Chicago Marathon is slogging forward. After a very discouraging 16-mile run, Nikki and I actually had a pretty great 18-miler. What I did psychologically was break it up into bursts...
View ArticleKathie’s Marathon Training Blog: Light Feet, Open Heart
Last night I had a marathon anxiety dream. Nikki and I arrived at the start up site, (which was inside some kind of dry walled warehouse place), and were brought to our starting corral. The race start...
View ArticleKathie’s Marathon Training Blog: Race Day!
Nikki and I registered for the Chicago Marathon in February and began officially training for it in mid-June, and now, suddenly and as though no time had passed at all, it was October and the race was...
View ArticleWhy I Am Watching the Sochi Olympics
When The Seattle Seahawks won the super bowl last Sunday, Fox News made a big deal about how it was the city’s first National Championship since the 1979 Super Sonics won the NBA finals. This didn’t...
View ArticleI Deserve to be Healthy: A Feminist Case for Quitting Smoking
Backstory So a couple of years ago, my wife, Nikki, and I are at a party where we encounter a few friends we haven’t seen in a while. Conversation gets around to how we’d just run the Prague marathon,...
View ArticleWe Did It So You Don’t Have To: Three-Day Cleanse
The end of the year is a notorious time for over-taxing your system – overeating, eating poorly (dips, cheeseballs, cookies, eggnogs, anyone?) and over-imbibing. Between friends’ outings, family...
View Article
