November 2015 – Cinthia Runs Alaska

OMG, what a read (!!)

I totally have to share this. I just finished the most remarkable book, Descent, by Tim Johnston. It’s literary fiction, and the writing is so lovely you’ll want to savor it in your mouth. The premise of the book: An 18-year-old girl goes off running in the mountains with her 15-year-old brother, and she’s abducted. […]

Swimming, a bit o’ running, and hello (again) Seriously

Well, we got “our” dog back. Last Monday we had to return Seriously, the dog we’d been petsitting for the past couple of months. It wasn’t easy; she had really squirmed her way inside our hearts. But we picked her up again yesterday, for another glorious three weeks. It’s so, so nice to have her […]

I ran! A mile! A whole, friggin’ mile!

Being injured sucks. Being injured because your dog toppled you over and your wrecked your knee sucks even more. After a month (one. long. stinking. month.) of not running and riding the bike-that-goes-nowhere at the gym for impossibly long times (my record so far: 3 hours, 35 minutes, woot-woot), I ran two days ago. I […]