I’ve won National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, five times. Hopefully, this year will be win number six. I have also lost once — but we don’t need to talk about that! In case you’re unaware, NaNoWriMo is a challenge that many writers take up every November that involves writing…

How jumping into a race with no training got me out of my running funk — I’ve been in a running funk for a few months now. 2020 was a tough year for me, as it was for many people, and I threw myself headlong into running that year. It was one of the few things that kept me sane during that most insane of times…

I don’t think of myself as a particularly spiritual person. I’m not at all religious. I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits, or anything else that I can’t see physical evidence of. I honestly wish I could believe in more unbelievable things, but it’s just not the way I was…

And Maybe You Should Too — I’ve taken two days off from writing in the last 16 months. The first was Tax Day — I work for a CPA firm, so Tax Day is a day of huge celebration each year — and the other was the day I had two wisdom teeth removed. Besides those…

I have a confession to make: I think I might prefer walking to running. — Even before I learned to like running, I loved to walk. When I’m deep into training for a race, or some other running challenge, I often feel like I shouldn’t be wasting my time and energy on walking — like every mile should be completed at a running pace. …

Sometimes it’s easier to push ourselves further than it is to slow down — At the start of 2021, I set myself a few different goals. Like most new year’s resolutions, many of them didn’t come to fruition. One of them, though, was more important than the rest, and it’s the one I’ve succeeded the most at: being kinder to myself. I’ve always been…

So, what is Marcothon? It’s certainly not as well-known over here in the US as it is in the UK where it was created, but it gets more popular every year. The idea is simple: you run a minimum of 25 minutes or 3 miles (whichever comes first) every day…

I love NaNoWriMo. Really, I do. I love it so much that, even though October 31st is actually my birthday, every year that day is overtaken by last-minute planning, world-building, snack-gathering, and general pre-NaNo excitement. I like to think of the day as All NaNo’s Eve. For those of you…

It’s been more than three weeks since I completed my first sprint triathlon and it’s taken me until now to gather my thoughts about it. …