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The Best Leadership Skill on the Planet

02/02/2015 The Best Leadership Skill on the Planet If you'd asked me 10 years ago to run a mile, I would have groaned knowing I'd be out of breath before getting off my couch. I wouldn't have had afalse

Finding Strength One Mile at a Time

02/26/2014 Finding Strength One Mile at a Time You have more in you than you imagine. Saturday, February 8, 2014, I ran my furthest distance – 50 miles. I knew this would be a hard event, but Ifalse

Keep Going

01/19/2014 Keep Going

08/24/2013 Finish Line Fridays: Believe in the Run I'm starting something new every Friday on my blog. I call it Finish Line Fridays. For many it signals the end to the work week. For me it's the dayfalse

03/09/2012 Connectors, Comrades, and the Curious I ran the New Orleans Half Marathon this past weekend. After a few weeks of thinking I couldn't stand a chance to run I changed my mindset and wentfalse

02/25/2012 Redefining Goals What is it about life that has us focused on the labels defined by others? I have known for weeks I'd would be approaching the Mardi Gras halffalse

02/15/2012 Tough Miles Runners always have tough miles. We get frustrated and sometimes just stop. Endurance is about building capacity in our bodies to go longer. It'sfalse

02/11/2012 People and Your Pace Life's marathon brings you across many different people. There are people of all types you can choose to admire and learn from. Sometimes, though,false

02/04/2012 The World is Flat and I Would Prefer a Hill Runners aspire to race on straight flat paths- they are faster. Actually most take the most direct path to their destination But sometimes fast canfalse

01/16/2012 That. Just. Sucked.... But I did it! Have you ever been grateful something was over? That would be me. Grateful. The run was great today until a 10-person pileup. I shouldered the bruntfalse

01/14/2012 The ABC's of Running Tomorrow I will run the Houston Half Marathon. This is a special course for me because I had a personal best of 2:09 in 2009. One day I hope to breakfalse

Race Day Manifesto - The First Timer

01/07/2012 Race Day Manifesto - The First Timer With the Houston Marathon, Half Marathon, 5K and Olympic trials 7 days away, I thought I'd post some tips for first timers. I'm going on 7 yearsfalse