Quest for Endurance: Archive

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May 4th

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Apr 16th

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Apr 16th

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Apr 15th

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Apr 14th

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Apr 14th

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Apr 12th

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Apr 8th

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Apr 8th

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Apr 8th

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Apr 8th

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Mar 13th

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Mar 11th

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“The unspoken and shared understanding of what it means to be a runner can be...”

– Adam Goucher & Tim Catalano, Running the Edge (via dodgingtraffic)

Mar 11th

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Mar 9th

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500 days

Just about finished reading Born to Run and I also recently read a blog called joggingjeans.com. What better way to celebrate day 500 of my running streak than to run barefoot in jeans, skinny jeans at that! I have to admit that I lasted just over a km barefoot, then I had to put on my shoes…

Mar 1st

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Feb 26th

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Feb 26th

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Feb 26th

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Feb 26th

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“The Tarahumara culture believed that “racing doesn’t divide...”

– Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Feb 25th

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effortlessly run???

After going out for breakfast to celebrate my Grandma’s 95th birthday, eating a plateful of french toast and drinking too much coffee, and then procrastinating for a few hours - I finally decided to go out for my ‘long’ run. 14 km. Decided is a strong word, I was conflicted … should I run at all, especially after eating french toast; should I go out and see how I feel,...

Feb 24th

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runspo asked: Good luck on your marathon training! You got this.

Feb 22nd

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Born TO Run

I downloaded the novel Born to Run on my iPhone after my husband said it would a great read in preparation for marathon training. Started it on my run today and I am looking forward to being inspired. Here’s to believing that I am born to run. Right now I just feel like I am born to run down hills and not up…

Feb 21st

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Chicago bound

Made it through the log in failures and signed up to run!

Feb 19th

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Mind in Training, body will follow...

Well, it has been a long while since I have written anything, I guess I just felt that I haven’t had much to contribute. Just plugging away at life, quite happily I might add. As I have mentioned before, since I watched the Chicago Marathon in 2011 my running world took a new direction. Although I totally loved watching all of the runners give it their all at that moment in time, I was...

Feb 17th