If at First You Don’t Succeed… There aren’t many friends who know the story behind my high school nickname but I was reminded of it just last week. Sometime after my first and last attempt to water ski, our high school Chemistry teacher, Weaver, started calling me Mish-mash. It was a friendly term to describe […]
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The Perfect Fit
Finding the Perfect Fit A few weeks ago I went out for my longest run ever, a 17 miler! At mile 13, I felt this pain in my calf and tried to be hard core and press on, but the pain was so bad I literally could not run. I had to walk 2 miles […]
Rocking on the Roads: Stitches
Learn more about running stitches How many times are we running and then suddenly a pain in the abdominal area occurs, we try to push further and the pain is still there, we try to lower the pace and the pain remains until, at some point, it becomes so strong that we are in the […]
WAYLAND WELLNESS JOURNEY PART II
The Running Edition As I stated in Part I of my Wayland Wellness Journey blog I mentioned very little about running and that was by design but I wanted to inform everyone my starting point and continue the story by showing you my Running Journey. In my High School days, I was a 400m runner […]
Relax and Run
Finding the Passion In Running It has been almost a month since I fulfilled my lifelong dream of completing a marathon. Sometimes I have to pinch myself to remember that this is real and that I don’t have to fret, worry, plan, anticipate or dream about that day in October, 2013. I don’t have to […]
Run for Life – The Continuing Story…
What does it take to be an Ultra Marathon Runner? So the step into the ultra arena happened (approximately 10 years ago) and after that first 67 km (a run through some beautiful countryside) I found that I definitely enjoyed them!!!! – strange I know. I,m not sure what it was – the challenge maybe, […]
Found Myself Running: The Way It Was…
A continuation of a previous post by Found Myself Running entitled: Greater than the Sum of my Parts. Okay, everybody knows I’m an “older” woman…but one day, if I am lucky, I will be a REALLY old lady. I will no longer be able to run, to walk or maybe even to dream. But if […]
Miles to Go by Tina Bond
Where Have You Run to This Year? I am so excited to be writing for Moon Joggers! Not completely sure what I wanted to write about for my first installment, I found myself looking at my miles for the year and thought that ‘miles’ would be a great first topic. As of October 3, I […]
Rocking on the Roads: Running with a partner named disease…
Why Run With A Disease? “Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease that usually results in skeletal muscle weakness, which worsens with exercise and strenuous aerobic exercise, is generally contraindicated.” (Scheer BV, Valero-Burgos E, Costa R. Myasthenia gravis and endurance exercise. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2012 Aug;91(8):725-7) I have always been a bit active. When I […]
Found Myself Running: Greater than the Sum of my Parts…
Making My Dream a Reality It is not likely that many who happen to pass Corral L at the starting line of the Chicago Marathon on October 13, 2013, will even notice the older, overweight woman with a look of terror in her eyes who will be shifting nervously from foot to foot. She will […]