by Becky Robinson | Oct 21, 2015 | Reflections
Days before my second marathon, a well-meaning friend said, “If you can’t finish, go as far as you can.” I laughed and gently told her “I’ll finish. Quitting is not an option.” Nearly everyone who enters a marathon enters with the...
by Becky Robinson | Oct 6, 2015 | Reflections
I’ve been running, although not always consistently, for more than 22 years. Among the good running habits I’ve failed to consistently practice: stretching. I’m not sure why I’ve never had a stretching regimen. I wasn’t a high school or...
by Becky Robinson | Sep 11, 2015 | Reflections
I’ve been running for more than twenty years, though not consistently. Sometime in recent years, I decided that every mile a gift. Lately, running has been more difficult for me, and I’ve thought more deeply about the phrase, my running mantra:...
by Becky Robinson | Aug 20, 2015 | Reflections
I’m training for my second marathon. The idea has been in my mind all summer but I didn’t commit until a few days ago. Before that, I was hedging, training for the marathon but reserving the possibility that I would switch to a half marathon distance race...
