Those of you with toddlers will probably recognize this strategy: Stick with it by using a sticker chart (or habit tracker)! Ok, before you completely dismiss the idea of a sticker chart as being something that only a kindergartner would see as motivational, bear with me for a sec. I’m a pretty visual person–for example, I color code my notes and my calendar. But it didn’t occur to me that a sticker chart might actually…
I quit. I’m done. It only took 20 minutes today, four laps around a small pond in my neighborhood, to decide this. I’m fat. I’m old, and if “you’re only as old as you think you are” then I am falling apart. The “knee armpit” on my left side is achy and my right hip is giving me stabbing grief. I can’t keep up like this.
Winter is upon us. Fortunately, we don’t get much snow at all in Portland (but this is Run Oregon, not Run Portland, so perhaps you are inundated with the white stuff). Even without snow, though, it can get frigid and wet. And rain all the time. Some runners are hardy enough to deal with adverse conditions outside. I am not one of those. I’ll put up with cold and rain for a race, like the 2014 Fort…
This recap was submitted by Run Oregon reader Mary Sweigert. Feel free to Submit a Guest Post in the “Contact Us” tab if you are wanting to submit your personal running story! I wonder if we’re not all a little bit like goldfish; shrinking or expanding in relation to the size of our containers. For some reason, thinking on what my container might be like without running occurs to me one afternoon after the Isla Vista attacks, after…
Oh my gosh, as John McEnroe would say, “You cannot be serious!” That dude is actually running a 360-degree loop!!
If you’re going to be a terrible, occasionally hungover, inconveniently sick, low-gear, slow but enthusiastic runner, you should at least have the benefit of being rich to even those deficits out. Unfortunately, rich I am not. I greeted the New Year with $211 after six months of unemployment and $537.00 in mandatory bar dues, but damn if I didn’t spend ninety of those dollars on a tiny race I’ve been dying to run since before I…
