December 8 Beautifully different. Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different – you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful. (Author: Karen Walrond) Beautiful is just not a word I usually use to describe myself, even in the context of …
Category: Fitness
Let Go
December 5 Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? (Author: Alice Bradley) Things were going along pretty swimmingly this year until about the middle of October. I was pleased as punch that a new phase of my life had just begun and I was loving the way everything was …
Patellafraktur
So, people, you know how I’ve been complaining about not having enough time to blog lately? Well, I’ve just been gifted with some time — a whole lot of time, actually. On Monday afternoon, as I arrived back in Bremen from a weekend in Hamburg, I left the train station to catch a tram up …
Born to Run
When I picked up Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, I was expecting some sort of anthropological how-to manual on running. What I ended up with is a fascinating story of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, crazy ultra-marathoners, and the ultimate ultra-race between …