DRUM ROLL please. The excitement builds to a fever pitch. Unveiling tonight a brand new smoothie recipe for your delicious and healthy enjoyment: the Mean Blue-Green Almond Supreme. See aerial view above. The ingredients I combined tonight were for the first time...
Looked for a good last race of winter/first day of spring test race to run and like a good neighbor, the State Farm Run was there. Last Saturday, on day 852 of my runstreak, I ran the State Farm Run 10 mile race in Lincoln, Nebraska. I had not run this race in many...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today I ran 4.22 miles on runstreak day 850, boosting Irish endorphins as you can see in my smiling Irish eyes. Kiss Me I’m A Runner!...
Last Saturday, March 12 I ran the Wilderness Park Run for the Bridges trail race for the first time: a race aimed at raising funds to restore bridges needing restoration on trails in Lincoln. ‘Twas a challenging and fun race course. This race was to be a 10 mile...
Happy Pi Day! Today, we ran pi miles (3.14), Misty our dog and me. It took two run slices to reach pi but we did it. Also squeezed in some walks with her. On Periscope, I spoke briefly about ways to work in exercise on Pi Day. Enjoy the scope! Do you celebrate Pi Day...
Once upon a marathon in 2012, there was a race that I failed to finish: my only DNF (did not finish). Yes, my biggest bellyflop in a race was in the full marathon distance. As I encounter more runners struggling with how to recover and bounce back from a DNF in a...
Today, with my good friend Ha Tran, we launched our blab series based on the Three Feet from Gold book by Greg Reid and Sharon Lechter. Today’s show was called Running on Empty after chapter 1 of the book. Here is the Blab link if you would like to watch it. You...
Happy Music Monday! Let me explain: Today I sought a somewhat hilly course for my second run and noticed a lonely shopping cart atop a hill near Southpointe Mall in Lincoln. So I decided to stop there and maybe return the cart to its rightful store. Why? Because...
When you run, how often do you use your imagination? It’s time to get in touch with your creative right brain! You are running in heat and humidity but pretend you are running in Siberia or the Arctic Circle. Imagine the opposite of what you are struggling with...
Fire and Ice, the diametrically opposed opposites, represent elements that frequently are not thought to blend well: fire and frozen water. After all, fire can burn us, wound us, kill us. And ice causes different but similar outcomes. The fire fills us with the...