For all those who tackled the Vermont Spartan World Championships this weekend: "The hardest part was coming to terms with the constant dispiriting discovery that there is always more hill. The thing about being on a hill, as opposed to standing back from it, is that you can almost never see exactly what's to come. Between the curtain of trees at every side, the ever-receding contour of Continue reading →
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Quest for the SC Ultimate Outsider: Little Pee Dee State Park
Last June my family made the best $75 investment we could have ever imagined: we bought a South Carolina State Park passport. On a local scale, what that meant was that we didn't have to pay $5 per person every time we wanted to leave the crowded beach fronts of Myrtle Beach, and instead head for … [Read More...]
Life…and the Death Race.
"So...Georgia Death Race is a week from tomorrow" I casually said to my husband before bed last night. "Wait, really? Wow." he replied, and then paused before continuing "So how are you feeling? You haven't talked about it much. That's not like you. At all." It's true. I quite literally … [Read More...]
How Frequent Bouts of Sitting May Impact Your Running
Sitting. It's a detrimental habit that our society absolutely loves to do, but most likely something that runners rarely consider the dangers of. After all, we routinely get our 10,000 steps (or more) in a day. It's easy to make the assumption that if you run a lot, you must be healthy. I mean, … [Read More...]