Grandma Runs!

Category: Menopause and Running

  • This Aging Body

    I am damn near 60. I hear myself saying these words in my head pretty regularly, especially when I see girls in cute outfits at school and wonder if I could wear them! I am damn near 60. I will be 59 in January, and just cannot believe that I am close to retirement age.…

  • Summer Check-In

    Summer Check-In

    Summer seems to go quicker with each passing year. I always have all of these lofty goals, and then suddenly it is time to prepare for the upcoming school year. So what have I accomplished? I began Weight Watchers on April 5 after weighing in at the same weight I was when I was nine…

  • Here I Go Again…

    Menopause. It’s a rite of middle age. Actually, post-middle age because I doubt I will live to be over 100. I’ll probably drown in a puddle of sweat in my own bed. Menopause can make life pretty tough, especially when in my head I am still young and thin. Unfortunately in the mirror I am…

  • Over 50 and Training for a Mini

    I haven’t blogged about running in quite some time, and there is actually a reason for that. Throughout the winter, I was a slacker. Like most slackers, I have a host of excuses, and some pretty valid reasons. Both my brother and my mother became ill at the same time. Trust me – I have…