With football and school in full swing, both YaYa and my plates are full of much to do. Once more, morning comes too early and dinner comes too late. Already, YaYa is feeling a little overwhelmed, I take note of YaYa’s waning enthusiasm and how he tackles the issue. After Monday’s tutoring session he asked [...]

“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” ~ Margaret Shepherd It was early in the morning and I was feeling a little apprehensive about my planned 70 mile ride. A recent modification in my planned long ride progression changed the weekly increments from 5 mile increases to 10 mile increments. It seemed [...]

You know how, when you take on a new hobby or sport, you can sometimes get all gun-ho-let’s-go about it? It’s easy to do. Perhaps you stick with it. Perhaps you get burnt out. OR perhaps you take it to the next level, and the next, and the next until…you get injured. There is such [...]

When I was in my teens, I couldn’t be bothered with changing into running attire for any run less than 6 miles in distance. It wasn’t that I refused to run anything shorter; I just would not change out of my street clothes to do so. Generally, runs shorter than 6 miles functioned more as [...]