Here goes nothing.
I’ll admit that I usually take a fair bit of time to think about what I want to say and how I want to say it before writing a post on this blog. Not today. Today I will write. Then again one can...
View ArticleThe last day.
When I go to the airport I can’t help but stare at people’s feet. It’s true, I have become absolutely obsessed with running shoes. I now own easily more than 25 pairs of sneakers. Earlier this week I...
View ArticleHow running 75 miles a week left me out of shape.
Happy Friday Runners!! Life has been all sorts of upside down and backwards lately and I haven’t been able to blog much over the past ten months. After Boston 2016 I pulled back from religiously...
View ArticleRunning may be my passion, but coaching is my calling.
Hello runners!! I’ve got some big new- a change in my run schedule. Yep, I’m shifting gears again. Last spring I had decided to run the Baystate Half Marathon. Then this summer I mentally switched...
View ArticleWhy is training for a marathon so life changing? I can answer that in 1 word:...
(My posts are often inspired by the people I meet during my day job. For three long years I worked as an employee in a local running store and...
View ArticleWhat is it about Winter?
If I wrote this post on Saturday I would have been on cloud 9, top of the world happy and feeling damn good about training. I had completed a 7 mile easy run followed by a bootcamp so nasty that it...
View ArticleThe Secret Life
With my piping hot coffee in hand and my leather booties click-clacking their way along the pavement I power walk my way from the gym to my office. Just an hour earlier I was focused and running hard...
View ArticleRat Race
The abrupt 5:42 AM morning wake up. The breakfast routine where the princess just can’t decide what she prefers on her plate. The putting-on of the shoes, jacket, gloves and hat while moving at a...
View Article102 More Things
Nearly two years ago I wrote a post entitled 101 Things. It represented 101 Things in my life up until that point: love, life, fears, dreams, motherhood – all of it. But life has changed a lot in the...
View ArticleEastern States 20 Miler.
*Mile 12* Our Garmin’s chirped in sync and he muttered, “7:36 for that one.” I impulsively exclaimed, “Too fast, that’s too fast. I can’t sustain that pace.” ”Yes you can. You are. Your breath is...
View ArticleHow am I preparing for Boston? Let’s talk carbo-loading, relaxing and...
This is it! The final push! I am 7 days out from RUNNING THE BOSTON MARATHON!!!! The big training weeks are long gone, my mileage is dwindling and my doc says I have taper psychosis on the brain. How...
View ArticleBoston Bound: Meet Miss Laurie.
It’s race week runners! I met with 24 clients this week, talked to a few potential new athletes and have one athlete racing the Newport Half Marathon and 3 athletes racing Boston. It’s Thursday night...
View ArticleBoston Bound: Meet Lisa Grafton
On May 31st, 2015 I received an email from a blog reader interested in my coaching services. I had just completed the RRCA run coaching certification program (read about it: here and here) and I was...
View ArticleTwas the night before Boston.
It’s the night before Boston. I have so many things that I want to (and eventually will) write, but it’s the night before Boston and I have to get my butt to bed soon!! Somehow tomorrow I am running my...
View ArticleBoston Marathon 2017 Race Recap: Part 1
I have heard some runners mutter that once they have successfully completed the challenge of running their first marathon they want and need a new challenge to focus their energy upon, perhaps a...
View ArticleBoston Marathon 2017: The Race
*Part 1 of the race recap can be found HERE. If running twenty six miles in a sea of thirty thousand strangers doesn’t make you feel like you’re part of something bigger than yourself, then I simply...
View ArticleThis divorced woman.
Exactly what does getting divorced do the human psyche and how we operate in relationships? I’m experiencing it first-hand and it’s crystal clear that I’m scarred. Will these scars heal? I think so. I...
View ArticlePost-Boston Training Bliss
When I’m not writing mildly depressing posts about being divorced, I’m actually having a pretty amazing time in life lately!!! Feelings ebb and flow. I’m not too shy to admit the tougher moments, but...
View ArticleStop Chasing Happiness.
What exactly is happiness? What does it look like? What does it feel like? And how do you know when you have it? I have spent so much time of my life chasing after happiness. Let me be the first to...
View ArticleWeek in review: Tips to training in the summer sun.
Since I’ve already written my existential crisis post-of-the-month then I think it’s high time that I write about running on this running blog. After running a 3:25:XX at the 2017 Boston Marathon I...
View ArticleWe have what we have.
I’ve had a particularly tough week. If you caught me 2 or 3 weeks ago this post would have been super upbeat as I was riding the post-half marathon high after the Surftown Half in RI on September...
View ArticleOut of the Comfort and into the Cauldron
Logic tells me that the fate of my marriage was sealed over billions of small, seemingly inconsequential interactions that comprised the very essence of my decade long relationship. On the other hand...
View ArticleA million little pieces.
I sit here in front of this keyboard with my heart broken into a million little pieces. I saw my divorce coming like a car crash happening in slow-motion, but this- I never saw this coming. Should...
View ArticleBeginning Again.
Life has been harder than usual this past week. My body has felt heavy and my heart broken. It’s been tough adjusting, but that’s exactly what I’m doing – adjusting, growing, learning. This morning I...
View ArticleTwo Feet.
I’ve spent the past week filling my days with running, work, activities with Lillian, baking and even a trip to New Jersey to visit the family. Each day has been chock full of things to do as I’ve...
View ArticleLet the healing begin!
Let’s let the healing begin, shall we? Do you think I can follow the same post-marathon recovery plan to recover from a heart break? Why not give it a try. I’ve spent the past few weeks running...
View ArticleFrosty Half Marathon Race Recap
This past weekend was EXACTLY what I needed. It reminded me of why I not only love to run, but also love how running can bring complete internet strangers together to become friends. Did I say...
View ArticleThe Windshield
I’m pretty sure the universe mandates truckloads of parental advice to be delivered post-heartbreak. Maybe the delivery will help re-establish the PH-balance of the soil in my soul or something. Who...
View ArticleThe Only Lonely Casualty
This post was inspired by: Hercules by Sarah Bareilles I encourage you to listen to the song and then read. *** “What if I don’t find him? What if I never truly experience love?” She paused to...
View ArticleWhat’s going on….
Helllllllloooo. I promised myself that I would post today so here I am posting. I have about 30 minutes so let see how many words I can smash together on this screen. I haven’t had an epiphany or...
View ArticleMartha’s Vineyard 20 Miler 2018
My worlds collided at the MV 20 miler that left me feeling exhilarated, relieved and I’ll admit it- overwhelmed. I was faced with an angry knee that had debunked my recent training, two athletes...
View ArticleOperation Get Your Shit Together.
It should be no surprise to you that I am extremely interested in identity development and formation throughout the lifespan. That’s what this blog has really become, hasn’t it? A raw account of how...
View ArticleThe Physiological and Psychological Changes of Masters Athletes
Just because I haven’t been blogging, doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. 🙂 Here is a paper I’ve been working on over the last weekend for on master’s athletes for my Kinesiology course and Sports...
View ArticleEastern States 20 Miler 2018
I may be training for Sugarloaf Marathon in May but running this spring has been far from a traditional marathon training cycle. My hips are decidedly weak and my hamstring often cramps up on hard...
View ArticleWilder Running Retreat
I GOT IN!!! I just found out that I was one of approximately 40 female runners (out of approximately 125 applicants) to have been accepted to go to Lauren Fleshman’s Wilder Running and Writing...
View ArticleBoston Marathon 2018: Who to track.
IT’S COMING!! THE BOSTON MARATHON!! Runner’s Christmas! I may not be running the marathon this year but that doesn’t mean I’m any less excited. The energy in town is explosive right now so much so...
View ArticleSugarloaf Marathon 2018: Part 1
“What do you get out of holding on to him?” … Kacey asked me back in January. I sat there in tears in her office reminiscing about my previous life and the relationship that once felt like a fairy...
View ArticleSugarloaf Marathon 2018: Part 2
It’s not supposed to be raining this hard. I have to pee again. Why is it raining so hard?? Should I change into my long sleeve? Do you think it’s going to keep raining?? Ok I don’t have to go, but I...
View ArticleLeeward Counseling
I have a hard time going from Sunday to Monday. You think I’m kidding. Sadly I’m not. I absolutely love my job as an mental health therapist but there is something magical about making my own...
View ArticleWilder 2018
Let me first say that I am not political. I don’t write about politics. In fact I actively avoid political discussions (unless I am in session and then I typically just nod until there is something...
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