If you live anywhere where the weather gets bad enough you cannot do your normal outdoor mileage, you have probably tried to do a workout on a treadmill at least once. While in theory I do not have a problem with treadmills, […]
The thing I love and hate about Ohio weather is, if you wait a few minutes it will change. It’s great when the weather is bad, but unfortunately, it applies when the weather is good, too. What makes it so aggravating for […]
Forgive me for running the news release nearly verbatim, but I really want all of you to have the complete information. (I’ll let you know when you can vote for me.) Air New Zealand Launches Global Search for The Great Walker El […]
Several years ago I weighed myself dozens of times a day. About a year ago I decided to lose a couple of pounds to improve my racewalking speed. Losing about 5 12 lbs. and training better did help my speed quite a […]
We are in Oklahoma for a family reunion. Most of my husband’s family lives west of the Mississippi with many of them in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. (My in-laws were from Cherokee, OK.) I knew it tends to be hotter out […]
Today I did three laps around Antrim Lake averaging 14:30 per mile for 3.6 miles. The pace was not too easy — not too fast. Afterward, while stretching on the deck, I noticed a couple running groups getting ready to start. When […]
The start of the 2011 Columbus Marathon from a walker’s perspective. The headline in today’s paper — Marathon Deaths Rare — caught my eye. Even though I knew it was true, people died in two different races I was in. And the […]
For a variety of reasons, many women in the United States have warped body images. Though it ranges from thinking you are healthy when you are heavy or obese to seeing yourself as obese when you are healthy or too thin, I […]
Over the weekend, I ended up eating something that did NOT agree with me. I was sick all day Sunday and totally drained with headaches all day Monday. (I think it was food poisoning. Entirely my fault.) I spent two whole days […]
Today I went back to the Griggs Reservoir Frisbee Golf course to take a picture of the log that was cut to look like a toilet. I never noticed before that cars are not allowed down there, so I had to walk […]
