It’s 4am and I am wide awake. I don’t know why. I’ve prayed, I’ve had my coffee. And so now I’ll write. If you’ve been reading for awhile, you know I am a tad bit obsessed with the late George Sheehan. Physician, writer, arm chair philosopher and runner. I don’t know if it’s because so …
Natalie Merrill has been my friend for years and just recently has begun coaching and encouraging me in my running life as well. She’s too modest to tell you this, but she’s QUITE a runner and frequently wins and almost always places in any of the races she participates in. But she doesn’t let it …
Kara Goucher (my friend Laura took this at the Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston. Taken the moment she realized she would qualify. WOW.) I was just at our local Starbucks for a meeting and while waiting in line, a runner came in. She was hot. She was sweaty. And she looked like she was going …
This is Deanna. Sometimes you meet someone and you know that you have to hear their story. I met a woman like that and asked her to please write her story because I knew others needed to hear it. This is the email she sent me yesterday. Dear Jen, I tell people about you all …
So I realize some of you – the non-planners, the spur of the moment spontaneous crazy people, those to whom the last minute is normal – will think that deciding to do a race only five weeks out is . . .NORMAL. But for me? The planner? The one who books her hotel 14 months …
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about women and our friendships. I teach a class on relationships for our church, and when doing the research I came across a study that women diagnosed with cancer who have a close circle of friends are 4 TIMES less likely to die than women who say …
Despite some definite strangeness that I will go into later, today was an amazing race and so so much fun!! Although the course was awesome, the homes along the way magnificent and the post race party to die for, the REAL STAR of the day was the weather. It was one of those seriously perfect …
So now that the fall racing season is upon us, I KNOW some of you are running your first race EVER very soon. So my first word to you is: HOLY SMOKES, LOOK AT YOU! Do you have any idea how few people in the world have the courage and the strength and the discipline …
A house on our block was torn down a couple days ago. We actually know the family that built it and they were a good, solid, loving family. They sold it years ago and it’s been in many hands since then and because it’s on a gorgeous creek lot, a builder came in and leveled …