At the moment, I am attempting to balance one of the biggest intellectual challenges I’ve ever faced with a fitness goal that’s pretty challenging in its own right. It might sound crazy training to run a personal best in a half marathon during the final months of writing my dissertation. But I believe strongly in the mind-body connection and …
Thanks to the Christian calendar, Germany has a lot of holidays in May and June. Last Thursday was one of them: Christi Himmelfaht — which I like to translate as “Jesus’ drive to heaven”, but is more commonly known as Ascension Day. All of that to say, everyone had Thursday free from work. And what should you …
Don’t you love those moments when everything comes together exactly when you need it to? That’s what Sunday’s half marathon in Bonn felt like for me. Although I aimed to beat my fastest time (2:13:06 at the NYC Half Marathon in 2007), I had no idea just how much faster I would be able to …
When I first signed up for swimming lessons in January, my primary goal was to be able conquer the fear I seem to have developed in adulthood of deep water. As recently as the middle of last month, I had a bit of a panic attack while swimming in areas of the pool where I couldn’t grab …