I’ve now looked back on 2013 as a Year of Running and as a Year of Blogging. For my final 2013 wrap-up, I’m taking a look at the year in pictures. One picture + caption per month, and that’s it. Compiling this post was complicated by some recent computer issues, but I didn’t obsess over the selection […]
It’s a vicious, self-imposed cycle. I know you’re familiar with it. There’s something in your life – some task, chore, or even fun activity – that’s best when done regularly. As long as you stay on top of it, things roll along smoothly. You don’t mind doing it – and perhaps even find it […]
So there is a blog post floating around the Singapore running blogosphere that’s making me twitchy. Basically, the post provides four tips to help folks (ladies, specifically) avoid “unglam” race photos. The author suggests: 1. Wear some make-up. 2. Tie your hair back. 3. Wear sunglasses (to hide slit, shut, or sunken eyes). 4. Smile. […]
As I was checking how my Weekly Workout Round-Up for last week post looked on email and on my phone, I was a little surprised to see a phrase that snuck into the post: “…but I’m a bad blogger…” I caught my breath. Crap. How did that get in there? I often see this phrase in […]
My college roommate recently taught me a fantastic German word: entlistungsfreude. The word means “the satisfaction achieved by crossing things off lists”. [Edited to add: This amazing woman, who is a better wordsmith than I, has two kiddos one hundred times more adorable than my (non-existent) ones, and loves the world harder than anyone else I […]
Some days, I fail as a blogger. Even if though I ran a lot of miles and composed a slightly clever post about being a female endurance athlete yesterday, I definitely dropped the ball on my most important Blogger Job of the Day: Promoting my first-ever guest post, over at Mountains and Miles. I’m helping to fill […]
When our alarm clocks rang before 6 AM this morning, KMN and I both popped out of bed, threw on our running gear, powered up our Garmins, headed outside, and began to run. One block later, we separated: Me for one last super-long trail run (28 miles) before my 50K, and him for an 8 […]
First of all – thank you folks for all the sweet wishes for my Dad! Dad has a strict no-blog-commenting policy, even on his daughter’s blog, so you’ll have to accept my thanks, on his behalf. 🙂 Since the Dad-post, things have been a *bit* on the nutsy side over here at RWH Headquarters. In […]
Can we all just stop for a second and acknowledge how freakin’ hard it is to keep up in the blog world? I fell behind while doing really important things, like saving the world and being a Matron of Honor. OK, maybe it was just the latter, but there was a lot of responsibility! Flowers! […]
What a difference a day makes: At 1 PM Eastern Standard Time, KMN and I were unloading our bags from my Mom’s car at the curb at Newark Airport. Twenty-five hours later, we were in the Taxi queue at Changi Airport (Singapore). Add in a twelve-hour time difference, an hour of decompressing when we got […]
