Runs With Pugs

No, The season isn’t fall. It’s the open nest. And we’ve got about a month until things shift dramatically around here. Time surely does march on, doesn’t it? Since I have no control over that, let’s talk about what I do have in my power. Running.

We’ve officially crossed the midway point of the year, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably wondering how on earth we got here so fast. In the fitness and blogging world, it’s incredibly easy to just keep your head down and plow forward into the next training block without ever stopping to appreciate the ground you’ve already covered. But there’s massive value in h...

It’s incredibly easy to scroll through social media and think you’re doing this whole running thing entirely wrong. You see people waking up at 4:00 AM to drink a green juice, track forty a metric ton of biometric data, and run a casual sub-seven-minute mile before the sun is even thinking about rising. It’s exhausting and intimidating! But that’s not what makes for a success...

When the month of June rolls around, most runners in the South start looking for excuses to scale back. The humidity spikes to 100 percent, the air is like warm soup, and the asphalt is lava. So, naturally, what did I do? I hopped back into the #StreakingWithTheCoolKids Challenge, committing to running or walking at least one continuous, uninterrupted mile every single d...

I don’t know what to say. It’s so hot. And we don’t even have it the worst! But I also can’t imagine it being worse than this. Every day is just stifling and oppressive. Motivation is in the sewer. Positivity is lost. I really just don’t want to get out of bed and do anything until winter.