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Knowing, doing and 'staying on the bus'
The first time I trained for a full, 26.2-mile marathon, it was the fall of 1996 and I was twenty-five years old. The Atlanta Olympics had just wrapped up, and a friend I’d met during the games had convinced me to sign up for my first marathon, even though I hadn’t run more than six miles at once, ever.But, I was single with a job that left me plenty of time to train after work and on the weekends, so I said “sure.” Along with her, I attended an introductory meeting for everyone training for the

2023年03月30日

Your own emotional acre
Like you, probably, I love getting engrossed in books with big ambitions. On my nightstand right now are a biography of Abraham Lincoln, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and a door-stopper on the history of Christianity — ones in which the writer really does try to wrap their arms around a big, huge topic and wrestle it to the ground, in a few hundred (or thousand!) pages. But in between these, I like to catch my breath. With briefer, shorter books on smaller, lighter subjects, ones that take

2023年03月23日

Stepparents need heroes too
Scrolling through the photos on my phone always reminds me just how hazy my memory really is. Almost every time, I spot a photo that makes me think, “I did that?!” or “We were there then? I have absolutely no memory of this…”That’s why, whenever I tap the photos icon on my iPhone, I’m always glad I take so many — my “Recents” album alone contains more than 32,000 pictures — because there are vast swaths of my life that have long escaped the orbit of my memory, and now are lost somewhere out ther

2023年03月16日

On becoming an athlete
Late last week, I had the chance to talk by phone with Sarah Lavender Smith, a writer whose fantastic newsletter Colorado Mountain Running & Living covers her love for long-distance trail running, which she’s done for more than 25 years as both a coach and a runner herself — to give you an idea of how accomplished Sarah is, a few years ago she won the race known as the Grand to Grand Ultra, which unfolds over 171 miles through the Utah and Arizona desert.During our conversation, I told her about

2023年03月07日