I’m losing track of my training schedule, not a good sign. No matter: I know the race date and I suppose that’s all that matters: Feb. 15, 2014 I wrote in large fonts because I wanted the magnitude of my terror to resonate. But onward, no? This week’s training, or last week, since I’m a bit behind […]

The good news: I’m still running. The bad news (or more good news?): I’m eating like a pig. Seriously. Thursday I had two dinners. Not two helpings, mind you, but two separate dinners. I was starving. I’m always starving. I think it’s the combination of a vamped-up training schedule plus the horrific knowledge that in […]

My apologies, but I must first interrupt this posting for a moment of silence. My beloved iPod Shuffle has died. RIP, my lovely iPod My sister gave me this iPod almost five years ago and I’ve run with it in Seward, Homer, all around Anchorage (except on the trails; I never run with music on the trails), Nebraska City, Philadelphia, […]