Have you ever discovered something about yourself that everybody else already knew? It took qualifying for the Boston Marathon for me to realize I was a runner. And yesterday I had another Earth-shattering revelation—I’m a vegetarian. I was making Korean Cabbage Salad with Tofu (recipe below) from Robin Robertson’s Vegan on the Cheap. The recipe…
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Read for 15 minutes in the morning when you’d otherwise check email. That was the nugget I took away from an interesting post I read yesterday about how to fit reading into a busy schedule. Coincidentally, I had already done that yesterday. And I did it again today. (Seth Godin’s Linchpin; I highly recommend it.)…
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Post by Susan Lacke. The first time I did Yasso 800’s, the famous runner’s tool for predicting marathon time, I collapsed in a heap on the track, crying. “<BLEEP> that <BLEEP>ing Yasso. If I ever meet that <BLEEP> Yasso I’m gonna <BLEEP>ing give him a piece of my <BLEEP>ing mind about his <BLEEP> Yasso 800’s….
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By now, we all know about compression socks, right? They look a little goofy, but damn, do they deliver when it comes to keeping your lower legs comfortable. I mean, it’s borderline miraculous. I find long runs to be far more enjoyable when I wear them, and for that reason I wore my CEP compression…
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Hello everybody! This is Christine, and while Matt was busy running his 50-miler, I attended an event in Philadelphia hosted by New Harvest to educate health and food bloggers about their new Vegetarian Fatty Acid Supplement. New Harvest took care of the expenses for my trip, but my opinions are my own. I also double-checked…
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First, thank you for all the congratulations and kind words about my 50-miler! I sincerely hope you all got the message that it’s something I really believe you could do, if that’s what you decided you wanted. I’m no great runner. I absolutely hated running until I got to college, and even when I did…
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Note: This post was written by Susan Lacke. First off, lovely NMAs…goodness, you are fabulous people. I can’t even begin to express how awesome your responses were to my last post. So many of you shared great stories about how you’re helping newbies overcome adversity and join the ranks of runners across America. I’m not…
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Granted, there’s a reason it’s not called the North Face Endurance Fun Run. Ninety-degree heat, extreme humidity, and three mile-long passes along a cliff so rocky it required more tiptoeing than running helped to ensure that my first 50-miler, part of the North Face Endurance Challenge, lived up to the name. Let me tell you:…
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