I have been a really good girl this year.  I realize this is a little early for the Christmas season, but in case you would like to do your shopping on Black Friday, here is my list.  I wasn’t sure if the elves knew how to manufacture some of these things. 1. Most of all [...]

I ran five miles pain-free TWICE this week!  I’m super excited, and feel like I’m finally healing.  I’m really happy I made the decision to go to physical therapy – I’ve been getting ultrasound massage, stretching done by the PT, and learned bunches of new stretches to strengthen the inside of my thighs, which will [...]

I have to say I was really excited to run the 5k Run for Catie this past Saturday.  Catie is a local girl who was diagnosed with a spinal tumor recently, and all the proceeds from this race went straight to her family to defray medical costs.  I really love races like this because it [...]

My knee has been bothering me since I ran the Philadelphia Distance Run at the end of September.  Not so much to just walk around, or do light exercising, but every time I geared up for a solid run, it ended up in disappointment.  I took about three weeks totally off running, hoping it would [...]

I was intrigued recently over the story of Arien O’Connell.  O’Connell was the woman’s “real winner” of the Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco.  She didn’t actually win the race though, since it seems Nike decided it would be a good idea to start the “elite” runners 20 minutes ahead of the regular race pack.  [...]

I came accross an interesting article today in the New York Times – Road Runner Rage.  The basic gist of the article is that there has been an uptick in Runner/Road Rage lately as they battle to share the road.  They gave some scary examples of some guy hitting a runner with a golf club, [...]

I had a pretty miserable run yesterday.  I was planning on getting five miles in.  It was a brisk 45 degrees out when I wanted to leave, so I opted for gloves, long sleeves, and pants.  PANTS.  This is where my nice run went downhill quickly. I put on a pair of pants that I [...]