Rule, Brittaniea! Wrapped in plastic
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It’s a tradition in my running club that you buy the club a keg of beer for Happy Hour, to be consumed at Memorial Park, when you have reason to celebrate. I bought a keg of Left Hand Milk Stout and neither rain nor lightening could prevent some hardy friends from consuming (most of) it. [...]
Adventure is but a collection of detours
My favorite class this semester is called Travel Literature and in spite of the fact that one of the assigned books was Eat, Pray, Love the rest of the class is fun, stimulating and interesting. Right now I am in the middle of a book called Catfish and Mandala. It’s a travel memoir by Andrew [...]
Negative split
On a whim Friday I went to my local running store and registered for Saturday’s Rodeo Run 10, the one-year anniversary of the first race I’d ever run. CLH is out of town, I had no arrangements to meet friends at the start or finish line, and I hadn’t even really trained for it, having [...]
Writing :: running
From Writing Down the Bones: Some days you don’t want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don’t wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run. It’ll never happen, especially if you are out of [...]
Bib #33799
My finish in the Aramco Houston Half Marathon at 2:27:30, under my goal of 2:30 with room to spare, and right at 50% compared to the other runners. It was my first half marathon, and my second race ever. It was hard but I know I could have pushed myself harder. It’s still a PR! [...]
Dirty Boots
Every time I hear this song (which is not as often as it should be) I have the memory of seeing this video for the first time on MTV’s 120 Minutes, which I used to watch in the summers, curled up on the living room floor with my pillow and NKOTB sleeping bag, all the [...]
Chili for chilly weather
When I did my run yesterday morning it was 20º outside, which might not seem too cold if you’re from, say Chicago, but Houston is having its coldest winter in something like 17 years and it feels downright apocalyptic. I came home, took the hottest shower I could handle, then spent the rest of the [...]
Run Lola Run
I am getting ready to leave the house to run the Houston half-marathon. The half isn’t actually until next week, Sunday the 17th, but I am running the course today, taking my time to do the whole thing, as my final long-run before the actual race. I keep blowing my own mind when I think [...]
Half
How’s this for inspiration? Houston PD cadet breaks record for the most push-ups done by a woman — 405. Here, in convenient list form, are my favorite highlights from the story, so you don’t even have to click the link! When Cadet Andino entered the academy six months ago, she was barely able to perform [...]
A moon with a view
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. This is cool: items collected by Norman Mailer as part of his research for Of a Fire on the Moon.
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