Do you know what those dark, wet, frigid winter days, the definition of runners’ misery, are good for? They are excellent opportunities for dreaming of the past and planning for the future. I’m writing this with my friends on the Cascade cross country team in mind, but runners of all ages can go through this [...]
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Marlene Farrell Blog
By Marlene Farrell The word “magnanimous” doesn’t slip freely from my tongue, but I can’t help but think it a fitting description of my friend, Greg. I first met Greg through the virtue of his generosity. In 2007, he ran an entire marathon with a stranger (me) so she could achieve an Olympic Trials qualifying [...]
Have you ever run in New York City? I don’t mean race. I mean run on the city streets and on crowded sidewalks, confronted by the masses not obliging to get out of your way, the never-ending gauntlet of sandwich boards, café tables, newsstands, hydrants and persistent saplings to be swerved and missed, making you [...]
Recently the Running Mama astutely recognized that the contents of a certain well-circulated running magazine could sometimes feel like repackaging of the same information (I can’t count the number of times dark chocolate and quinoa have been mentioned in the nutrition tips, and the current magazine has a multi-page spread on sock recommendations – just [...]
Today marked my 2011 return to the track. I planned for this day and freed a block of time when I hoped to feel energized and speedy. But the sky pours rain all day, with no sign of letting up. So I jog down to the track from my car, my baseball cap snugly shielding [...]
Most of us runners, when we have a goal on the horizon, create a training schedule to move us along a path toward that goal. Sometimes it’s as simple as a weekly mileage target and a planned long run; sometimes it’s specific day to day workouts. We log our progress, holding ourselves accountable to reaching [...]
“You ski like a runner.” My husband will say to me when I complain that, despite efforts to improve, I still have about a hundred things to work on in regard to my classic skiing technique. In the snowy months, living for 6 years a ¼ mile from one of Leavenworth’s ski trails (and before [...]
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