Trail running in the Last Fronier
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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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This is how my summer went: I worked, for a bit. I ran, a lot. I wrote, a lot. I ate, a lot. And then suddenly and without warning, I stopped blogging. I got lazy. I put it off and put it off. Before I knew it, months had gone by and I hadn’t written a […]
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We have been hit with incredible weather. I mean: Incredible. Warm days, sunshine, clear skies. What I love most are the nights and the long twilight that stretches out past midnight. I do the majority of my running in late afternoon/early evening and most of my hiking/climbing late at night. There’s something about the twilight […]
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Where do I begin. I haven’t been posting much but I have been running. A lot. I’ve also been writing. A lot. And working, but not as much (priorities, people). Here’s the short rundown. Last week on my birthday, I raced the Knoya Ridge with Sarana and MM. We had a blast. MM ran ahead […]
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Well, heck, another week’s gone by. Where did the time go? Oh, yeah, I was running for a good part of it (but not as much as I would have liked). First though, I have to say Happy Memorial Day to my father, a Korean War vet who died when I was six. I never […]
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My first 18-miler in over two years is in the bag (in the shoe?) and it was everything a long run should be: Challenging, glorious, tough, meditative, frustrating and joyful. I didn’t feel good when I began. I wasn’t sick; I just didn’t feel energized and excited, the way I usually feel before a run. […]
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Well, it’s been quite the weekend. It started on Friday, when I stuffed my face with my homemade bean dip and half a bag of organic corn chips (organic = no guilt). I stayed up ridiculously late writing, and Saturday I popped up all excited. Because it was my Long Run Day. I don’t know […]
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We kicked off the spring with our running club’s first run of the season, and I didn’t totally suck. This was news to me since I’d done no speedwork (ummm, what is speedwork?) and very little pace work. I also hadn’t raced in two years. Add in that it was a 7.5km and I’ve never […]
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Cinthia Runs Alaska 