It’s been a while…

I thought I was done with marathon running after being uninspired and dealing with back issues through covid. I thought wrong, and now I’m sitting at marathon #39.

Destination races – packing for the experience

IT’S RACE WEEK! Literally, this is the week I fly to Morocco to run the Marrakech Marathon, and I’m getting excited. Race week is always a mix of excitement and anxiety for me (and probably many others); when you also add in the aspect of travel and being in a new or unfamiliar place, these…

Destination races – where will running take you?

“Never Limit where running can take you. I mean that geographically, spiritually, and of course physically.” – Bart Yasso As someone who has always loved to travel, it was only natural that after ‘discovering’ a passion for long distance running, I would combine the two, making running a main purpose or focal point of any…

I’m not going to Boston

A while back I started a draft of a blog called ‘I’m going to Boston!’ because I thought I was going to be able to get a bib through a charity, raise a lot of money for a cause I believe in and want to support, and run the 2020 Boston Marathon in memory of…

A message from my mom

I was submitting an application to run the Boston Marathon the other day, and I in looking for the right words to express why I wanted to do this (and ultimately why I hope they pick me), I found an email my mom sent me when I announced I was running the Chicago Marathon in…

Marathon #31: Budapest Marathon

At some point on the cycling excursion my husband and I undertook in the week preceding the Budapest Marathon, we got on to the subject of haiku, a type of Japanese poetry that is characterized by having three lines, each line with a set number of syllables (5, 7, 5). We joked about describing each…

Reflections on finish lines

One year ago, in September 2018, I ran the Loch Ness Marathon in honour of my mom. She died just over a week later. I wrote this shortly after as my reflections on what that race was like and what it felt like knowing that I soon would be in this world without the one…

The struggle is real

This has been another less than stellar marathon training cycle for me. But here I am, with just seven weeks to go before my next race. I’m less prepared than I want to be, but amazingly, I’m more prepared than I thought I might be. I say that as I had an ambitious goal of…

Remembering the fallen

Memorial Day is the one day a year when we are asked to remember our military who have fallen in service to our country. We pay respects with flags and parades, spending time with family and loved ones, fully enjoying the freedoms that the sacrifices of those service members have given us. When we remember…