Last weekend I went to Paris. (I still think it’s so cool to say that – I’ve been an American-in-London for the past 14 years and have a British passport, but even so I still think there is something special about being able to get on a train and go to a different country!) Last […]
It is really easy when something is wrong with you to enter into a spiral of blame and despair. You can start to blame everything on your illness. *Maybe I have tinitus because people with my disease can have hearing problems.* *All those years I stood in front of speaker stacks dancing in clubs, and […]
September is Charcot Marie Tooth Awareness Month. In my La Parisienne race report, I noted that for the first time I wore my Team CMT jersey on the run, for all of those who manage life with a progressive degenerative nerve disease. CMT affects 1 in 2500 people, including me. In honour of CMT Awareness […]
On Sunday I did my third La Parisienne 6k race in Paris. It was a great event, on a course that I really enjoy, and for the first time I felt like I was actually able to run (the parts that I ran) the race. I shave 4 minutes and 39 seconds off my time, […]
Getting back into things after holidays is always tough. I find myself clinging onto the relaxed feeling I found after two weeks of down time. I was so lucky to spend the end of my summer outside, active, and with a permanent glow of happiness. Laughter comes a bit easier now, and work stress seems […]
I know. I said that the FireMan AquaRun was it, my last multi-sport event for 2011. But sometimes life has a way of offering up second chances – or should I say that PEOPLE make second chances happen. On Thursday my friend Chris gave us all a second chance to race a race that should […]