“It’s simple…If you don’t think you were born to run, you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.” – Dr. Bramble Going to Malibu was transformational for me as a runner. Not in the sense that I walked away with a new vantage point on running it was more that I was reminded…
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Finding the Physical. Part Two: Rise Up
“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness” –Unknown As I exited the hotel lobby at 4:30AM in the dark Southern California morning, I shuddered against the cold and watched my breath escape harshly into the air. “So much for Malibu sunshine,” I remember thinking. Hopping in…
Finding the Physical. Part One: Simplicity
When I sat down in my seat on the plane in Dallas headed for home, I was suddenly overwhelmed with being physically tired. Despite the fatigue, the weekend was one of my favorite since starting with Spartan Race and for a multitude of reasons, most of them physical. As I write the words just tumble…
Putting the Damage On…
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”– Henry Rollins At Pilates tonight, my teacher really pushed me. She asked more of me than she ever has before and despite fatigue and a foul mood, I responded with strength. It hurt and it was more than I expected but there was…
Finding the Funny
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” (Mark Twain) When I lost my job last year, I left my meeting with my former boss in complete shock. I had no idea what I was going to do with myself and my two girls. Devastated, and without knowing why, I drove directly to my best…
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Never Gone
Without hesitation I can articulate that I believe that life is such a series of moments strung together in a pattern that makes no sense to anyone outside the person experiencing it directly. Your life is just that. YOURS. I can’t feel what you feel, you can’t possibly begin to understand my experience and how…
Dangerous Ground
I don’t worry about the bruises, the cuts, the scrapes, the callouses, and the scars that are easy to see… for me, it’s the things I can’t see… the vulnerabilities that threaten from the inside out that are the most dangerous and the most telling. It’s the thoughts that creep in with doubt when I…
Above Me
“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you”― Henry Rollins My running and training lately has…
Leaving a Path 