With its cool temps, warm-colored leaves, college football, and the start of school, fall used to be my favorite season. I’m slowly finding a way to enjoy the fall again after that fateful fall of 2014 when our twelve-year old daughter Lilli fell ill, beginning with...
The fall race season is upon us.’ There are many articles this time of year that start out in this manner and then proceed to give you lots of advice on about how to train, what to eat, what shoes or clothing you should be wearing, etc. All these articles, and there...
I was eight miles into a 13-mile run last Sunday, and I literally felt like I had peed my pants 16 times already. It was that humid, and I normally don’t sweat a ton when I run. However, that day was a dreaming-of-ice cream-and-ice cold-coke suffer fest. Nothing about...
It’s 5:59 am, and you are sound asleep in your bed. Then the clock strikes 6am and you are jolted awake by the sound of your alarm. You set your alarm for 6 am so that you could fit in your training run for your upcoming 5K before work, because you know that the...
It’s about time to grab my tooth pick and jimmy the gnats out of my teeth and complete a run without appearing like someone shook the shake out of a pepper shaker all over me. Ah, summer running, you had me a blast! From the time I was a kid, all the way to today: I...
If you do anything where you are bending your knees a lot (walking, biking, jumping), you are at risk for getting “Runner’s Knee”, an aching pain around the kneecap, formerly called patellofemoral pain syndrome. Runner’s knee is a broad term that describes the pain...