YA author Susan Dennard on writing and running: “If your goals ain’t working for you, change them”
YA fantasy author Susan Dennard shared about her experience taking up running and hating I, only to take it up again as an …
Prayer for joy
Sometimes joy can be really damn hard to come by. Many of us runners have struggled to find joy in our runs, in our training periods, or if you’re like me in our strength training sessions (ugh!).
Patron Saint of
…Jim Gaffigan on running a marathon
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Julia ‘Hurricane’ Hawkins: setting records at 105
Julia ‘Hurricane’ Hawkins started running at 100, and is setting records at 105
When we find ourselves thinking that it’s too late to start something new, it helps to look to other late-starters for encouragement.
Personally, I look to folks …
Chicago Marathon 2021: the weekend after [journal entry]
It was less of a “race weekend” and more of a prayerful retreat
It’s a full seven days after running with Team OLA (Our Lady of the Angels) in the Chicago Marathon 2021, and I’m still experiencing “all the feels.” …
Sr. Stephanie talks Chicago ’21 with Runners World
Sr. Stephanie Baliga shared some brief thoughts about her experience running Chicago Marathon 2021, and about the “official” return of marathoning in general.
…In Chicago, Sister Stephanie Baliga of the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels, the famous running
Prayer to St. Sebastian, patron saint of athletes
If you’re like me, then you:
- View your training as a spiritual journey, and not just a physical one
- Get anxiety during your pre-race taper
- … and therefore in light of numbers one and two, you pray more than usual
