I started trail running 3 years ago on a whim to go on a “different” run. And I fell in love, even though I was painfully slow (Thanks to Big Peach Running Co, Marietta GA, for organizing Friday Morning Moms Run at the trails for my initiation). The first time I went back to explore on my own, I was armed with a phone and pepper spray (Don’t Laugh. But I’m paranoid, better safe than sorry! And really most of the…
Chaffing How do you deal with the morning after on chaffing?Aquaphor helps protect and also speeds up the healing. Or … suck it up 🙂 Do you apply Aquaphor during your run?YES! Before, during and After. (An overwhelming consensus that won’t make me as self conscious when I think that the moment calls for sticking my hand to certain body parts) What else can you do to prevent chaffing?Aquaphor the bra-line on the body and some on the bra itself (Aquaphor…
On Sunday, I had my first ride on my new bike! But that excitement is not what this post is about – We met a lady on our loop. Thoroughly dehydrated, unable to walk or talk, sitting on the sidewalk, and threw up when we gave her some water. She was running without ANY water or fuel (we saw plenty of people like that). Her reasoning – she’d get water at the park entrances. That was still 2.5-3 miles without…
When I trained for Chicago last year, I did a lot of research on running. I hung onto every world the coaches would say, researched on it when I got back home and pestered them with questions when I next saw them (I still do 🙂 ).  It was great to finally understand the articles in Runners World, to feel one with the Kenyans (on a theoretical level, of course) and how cool it was to say that I Fartlek-ed…