rambling

so, continuing with my mindfullness frenzy, i decided to try out a yoga video i bought a couple years ago and never used. this is a very good workout! i was skeptical of this being just sitting and breathing, and it turned out it had me sweating, my legs wobbling, my heart rate up, and […] Read more

i ran exactly the amount my body told me to this weekend: zero. with the extra time on my hands i went to barnes & noble and found a neat book, which i bought: the wellness book. i love both the content and the format. it teaches you the concept of behavioral medicine, or mind/body […] Read more

i have a confession to make: i’m a chronic perfectionist. i also suffer from the worst case of all-or-nothing personality.these two character defects combined make for an extremely paralyzing combination: i won’t start a task when i know i don’t have time to finish it in one go. i also won’t start a task if […] Read more

thanks to russ, aka runr53 i was able to ressuscitate my old ultimate direction! (see ‘am i the only one?’).materials:1 salty-sweaty runner1 hydration pack with stuck zipper due to salty sweat1 candle, red is best1 snake (optional)procedure:first dance around your hydration pack (optionally naked) while repeating unintelligible words for spur-of-the-moment-made-up voodoo song (whatever that sounds […] Read more

ok. background information: this is an article about the city i live in. go ahead. read it.facts:my husband and i do not belong to this scene at all!we live within a couple of blocks of the most crowded (and noisy) bars.all our neighbors are extremely noisy drunks.so why is it MY problem that they’re drunks?(before […] Read more

…to leave dog shit on the bikepath. nothing makes me angrier than seeing someone not clean up after their dog. actually… there is something: not seeing it, as that makes it more likely that i’ll step on the horribly stinky gross stuff. took me the whole day to clean up the mess from yesterday’s run. […] Read more