Here’s a tip: Don’t run up mountains when you’re sick with a fever. Not that I would ever heed such advice. Yesterday was slated as the last possible sunny day before snow and even though I was sick, I couldn’t stand the idea of not being out on the trails.  I tied on my muddy shoes, called […]

I can’t believe that summer is over–where did it go? But it is over, and I know this because today I ran through snow up in the higher elevations, after struggling up massive and muddy hills and almost colliding with an angry moose. And suddenly there it was: The dog was excited. She’s a cold-weather type […]

I guess I took a little vacation from blogging, eh? Much has happened in the past month. I’ve become a marathoner (hooray for me!), which is the good news. And the company that ran the newspaper that I wrote/edited for the past four years suddenly folded (with, like, no warning) and I lost my job, which […]

Quick post: I am now officially a marathoner. Toooo friggin’ cool. And so is my sis. I’ll post pics and race recap in a few days. Right now it’s off to do exciting things in Seward, like sit in the Sea Bean Cafe and eat and then walk on the beach in the pouring (and I […]

Oh, oh, oh, summer in Seward! The weather has been mostly great, which means the running has been incredibly great. Thursday evening I did a nice 10 miles on hilly roads and felt super. So when J called Friday morning to see if I was up for 10 miles on the Primrose side of Lost Lake Trail, […]

Last night I hiked Mount Alice with my trusty dog. It was my third day of not running after my oh-so-clumsy fall on Lost Lake Trail Sunday and I was restless and crazy with the need To Move. My foot and knee were still too tender to run, so I thought: Well, why not climb a mountain instead? Why, indeed. […]

So there I was, with my limpy sore leg and my limpy sore dog, all packed up in my limpy old Escort hatchback and headed out to do a couple miles of light running on one of my favorite trails. Forget the fact that I knew I should wait longer before stressing my gashed knee. I […]

It happened. God punished me for making fun the woman taking a pee on the Mt. Marathon Bowl trail last night. My penance? I fell on the last mile of my 18 miler. One minute I was cruising, fast, on the downhill, and the next I had a rock sticking out of my knee. Ouch! […]

Okay, so there I was hiking Mt. Marathon Bowl with my faithful dog, The Beebs. It was about 8:30 p.m., hours of daylight left, the weather cool but mild: Perfect hiking opps. And so we hiked. We passed a couple of people I knew, their dogs and my dog sniffed butts and did their thang. The […]

Bet you wish you were me. Well, okay, you probably don’t want to be a moody, introspective writer. But I’ll bet you wish you were visiting me and running here. Yesterday I ran the Lowell Point Road loop. From my house, it’s exactly 9.1 miles, if I supplement an extra section on back roads. The views are amazing. There’s nothing […]