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  • Ten Strategies for Surviving Running Workouts When Nothing is Going Right

    It happens to all of us at some point.  An uninspired workout - a grueling, excruciating, inexplicably terrible workout.  There’s no good reason for it - just no go-juice. It’s awful. This happened to me on Sunday morning.  The longest 45 minute run of my life.  Ten times...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-04-2008
  • Little Girl Run Fast. Little Girl Break Eight. Smash!

    I am hitting what feels like a 5:50 mile pace and I think of Schramm. I never know where the mind will go when I step outside my door and put my feet one in front of another.  One second ago I was in a trance and now I am thinking of Sarah Schramm. Why?  Because I’m [...]
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-01-2008
  • Just Numbers.

    Sal comes home.  He has been gone ten days. Ten days. His trips do not usually keep him for that length of time. In his absence I become a strange creature.  A bachelor of sorts, hobbling together meals that would never otherwise pass for meals, leaving dishes in the sink. Today is the usual...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-31-2008
  • Not That Hard Core

    This morning I woke up at 5:00am, put on my cold weather running gear, and went downstairs to enjoy a pre-run coffee. "Perfect. Everything is perfect.", I thought to myself as I sipped hot liquid Stumptown love in an oversized mug. Then I shoved music into my pocket, strapped on the heart rate...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-22-2008
  • My Left Foot

    At high noon I am off in every direction.  The heart of me shooting skyward, the soles of me pressing down into scarred pavement, the eyes of me dead set on a hazy horizon. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog.com%2F2008%2F01%2F17%2Fmy-left-foot%2F'; addthis_title = 'My+Left...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-17-2008
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