Sometimes, on the way home from the school pick up, I feel a little like this. Because there is one thing, and one thing alone, that truly defines a mom’s car – capacity, completely independent of, and unrelated to, size of said car. Admittedly i have a large car, but it still never ceases to […]
Running around in my own head
Why am I still sitting here in my running kit, at 9:33 in the morning? Why, when my shoes are on and my watch is set to go, am I still sitting at my desk, pretending to work? Simple answer: I have a training plan. It’s that damn marathon. Actually, it’s a little less simple. […]
Do you have a Thing?
Don’t go there. I don’t mean that kind of Thing. I mean the other kind of Thing – you know, the Thing that is yours, the Thing you are good at, that brings you joy, that other people naturally associate with the person that is You. It seems that we are all supposed to have […]
Running Scared
How does a self-confessed commitment-phobe sign up to run a marathon? With absolutely no idea of what it entails. It’s time to come clean. I am a commitment-phobe. It’s the primary reason I have never entered a marathon (okay, so there are some others. Like ITB, and the necessity of being able to breathe and […]
Here’s to the tired ones…
I write this on behalf of tired parents everywhere. Parents who get out of bed half an hour before their kids to get showered and dressed, before packing school lunches and children into a car to face the morning traffic on the school run. Parents who work when they can, only to drop everything at […]
How to Run Like a Girl
Growing up, my mother always taught me that Girls can to anything that Boys can do. She insisted that the only differences were biological. And I agreed. Until I started running with a Boy. Now I know, there is absolutely a difference between ‘Running Like a Girl’ and ‘Running Like a Boy.’ Before you frown, […]
Run Like a Mom
After much nagging from well-intentioned friends and family, I have finally bitten the proverbial bullet and let my random thoughts loose on my little world, through a blog called RunLikeAMom. Read it. Share it. Comment on it. Or don’t. But, in the immortal words of someone far more clever than I: Above all else, be […]