Official 15 mile results
Rocky Mountain Road Runners posted the official 15 mile marathon training series race results. My final time was 2:44:57. My husband beat me by 22 seconds. There were 36 women and 28 men. Only 6 people were slower than I …
Month: August 2006
Good Neighbors
I sometimes come across stories that fill me with hope about humanity and yet they are the types of stories that would never be written about professionally. Here are three of them. Skwigg wrote about how she came across “the …
15 mile race
The 15 mile marathon training series race sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Road Runners was this morning. My running partner from the 10 mile race could not make it but my husband did the race with me. My husband does …
Slaying Dragons
I recently sent a collection of children's fiction to a friend with young children. As I was looking through my library for age appropriate books, I flipped through Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I love the quote he put in the …
Words that caught my eye
Driving home last night the car in front of me had a bumper sticker that said "Change is inevitable; Growth is optional." I wish these words were mine. I am tempted to hang them on my office door. There are …
If Only
Adrian Savage has a terrific post today about the destructive power of "if only." One of the very best things I ever did for my mental health was to stop getting stuck with how the world should be and accept …
Smart Goals
I spend a lot of time thinking about goals and goal setting. I started both Body For Life and an evening MBA program back in 2004. One thing that both of these endeavors had in common was a focus on …
Just Imagine
In my day job, I run a research laboratory that is dedicated to understanding and eventually preventing or treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; Lou Gehrig's disease). This fatal disease, like so many others, has no effective treatment. People become trapped …