running

a runner in sheep’s clothing – Icebreaker merino wool review

August 14, 2011

When you think of wool clothing, what comes to mind? Cold weather? Bulky sweaters? Scratchy socks? Well, there’s a whole category of wool clothing that wants us to change our minds about wool – how it feels, how it looks, and when to wear it. Case in point: Icebreaker’s line of merino wool activewear. I’ve [...]

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my sad, lonely, neglected blog

October 25, 2010

Wow, it’s been way too long. Life has been so many things lately: busy, scary, fun, hectic, frustrating, daunting, exciting, painful, amazing … and more. But none of that has made it here. For some reason I just haven’t been inspired to write, or felt I had time to do it. Even now this post [...]

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best laid plans

May 21, 2010

I’m training for my first half marathon. Or, rather, I’m supposed to be training for my first half marathon. What I’m actually doing is lying on the couch, where I dragged myself this morning from the bed, trying not to stand up too fast lest I get dizzy and fall on my face. It was [...]

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happy belated blogiversary to me

April 27, 2010

I missed my own blogiversary. This blog is now one-year old. Yay blog! I started badassdadblog on April 14, 2009. That first post was titled “stuff that’s hard,” and in the 12 months since, I think I’ve done my share of that sort of stuff. I’m not sure a full recap of the last year [...]

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why i run

March 16, 2010

I run for me. To be healthy. To feel better. To look better. To live longer. To be able to eat and drink more of what I want and still be fit. I run because both my grandfathers and my father had heart attacks before they turned 60. To paraphrase Christopher McDougall in Born To Run paraphrasing [...]

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words, music, and running

March 13, 2010

Lately I’ve been talking a lot about running. Talking, writing, chatting, emailing, tweeting, and conversing about running. If you missed the memo, I’ve been running for the last few months. By my previous standards, which were not running ever, at all, except after my kids to prevent certain death, I’ve been running a lot. For [...]

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