My smile looks out of place

The Five Stages of Marathoning.

Continue Reading Add comment November 25, 2009

I don’t want your photograph

Marketing 101. Last chance = last chance, for now.

Continue Reading 4 comments November 23, 2009

You can’t always get what you want

And if you do, what’s next?

Continue Reading 5 comments November 22, 2009

You’re a strange animal

Thick nipples or fast twitch muscles? You decide.

Continue Reading 11 comments November 20, 2009

I’m Mrs. Extra! Extra! This just in.

Another year, another 50 running magazines, another rainforest.

Continue Reading 13 comments November 18, 2009

Oh, the places you’ll go … running.

Will you succeed? You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed).

Continue Reading 4 comments November 17, 2009

Just sitting here watching the wheels go round

When the Boston Athletic Association sends out a warning you’d be wise to listen.

Continue Reading 17 comments November 15, 2009

My hips don’t lie

… but they often misbehave.

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A little old driver so lively and quick

I paid money to do two things I have never done before.

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Run for your life little girl

MIA: Saturday morning cartoons.

Continue Reading 5 comments November 12, 2009

These vagabond shoes

I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.

Continue Reading 16 comments November 10, 2009

Band on the Run: God Save the Queen

A running playlist for the blue blooded.

Continue Reading 8 comments November 8, 2009

On my way to where the air is sweet

Today’s post is brought to you by the letter R and the number 1.

Continue Reading 13 comments November 6, 2009

The flesh you so fancifully fry

The marathon transformed me into a modern predator, eating the food hunted and killed by others.

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Strike a pose

Never let a costumed runner beat you to the finish line.

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What were you doing at mile 26?

Meb was celebrating his victory. I was trying to convert yards to metres.

Continue Reading 9 comments November 3, 2009

She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor

When you finish one marathon do your thoughts immediately go to the next one?

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Run Like a Fox

I run for me. I also run for research.

Continue Reading 7 comments October 31, 2009

I don’t like to rehearse

Anthony Edwards prepares to star in the New York City Marathon.

Continue Reading 6 comments October 30, 2009

Band on the Run: Double, bubble, toil and trouble.

Notch up the fear factor on All Hallows’ Eve run with these spine-tingling tunes.

Continue Reading 1 comment October 29, 2009

I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier

The race otherwise known as Take That Dismal Half Marathon.

Continue Reading 18 comments October 28, 2009

Did you win?

My favourite post-marathon question.

Continue Reading 2 comments October 27, 2009

Feelings, nothing more than feelings

I’m feeling rather sappy about running. Must be that time of the month.

Continue Reading 14 comments October 24, 2009

Ain’t no mountain high enough

Size does matter.

Continue Reading 4 comments October 23, 2009

Dueling Banjos

This town isn’t big enough for both of us.

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Where the streets have no name

A Garmin by any other name would smell sweeter, I hope.

Continue Reading 35 comments October 20, 2009

Just Another Manic Monday

I wish it were Sunday. I wish it were three Sundays ago.

Continue Reading 18 comments October 19, 2009

You spin me right round baby

I’m buying extra medical coverage.

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Comrades: Harder, longer, tougher

Six ordinary people, one extraordinary race.

Continue Reading Add comment October 17, 2009

Take me home, country roads

The quick and the dead.

Continue Reading 2 comments October 16, 2009

Are rules meant to be broken?

Working subtitle: Yet another iPod scandal.

Continue Reading 6 comments October 15, 2009

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