Wow, it is wet, wet, wet here in New York. It started raining this morning, and as far as I know it hasn’t stopped all day. There have been moments where it has let up slightly, but that’s about it. Great day for a long run, huh? If you’d told me on Wednesday that I …
While I was training for my first marathon, I had several dreams about what the race would be like. In one of them, the race was set in a really weird historical era: the height of the Aztec civilization. How my brain came up with that one, I’ll never know. The marathon consisted of running …
I’m just going to come right out and say it: I pretty much let this week go down the toilet. Now, a lot happened that was beyond my control (I was sick Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday), but I didn’t do a great job pulling things together during the week’s remaining four days. I ran on …
If it meant anything to insult a day (see, even that phrase doesn’t make very much sense) I would call this day a butthead. Why? Because it’s been a butthead, obviously. Typical Sunday, or at least typical of at least one day out of a weekend–I had plans, and for reasons that are unclear to …
Thanks for all the blood blister-related advice. Nat insists that the blister looks smaller, but I don’t think it has really changed since it appeared lo these couple weeks ago. Based on your comments, it seems to be pretty common to drain blood blisters, and I’m beginning to think that I should probably go that …
