My new best friend (or.. My First Marathon Race Report) Let me just say I started running more than 30 years ago to get rid of excess weight after giving birth to my oldest daughter. And to get some time away from my (insert many expletives here) first ex-husband. Running shoes hadn’t yet been invented, which is good because the tightwad wouldn’t have let me buy them anyway. I managed to save 50cents here and a dollar there by budgeting uber-carefully for groceries. The allowance for two weeks... read more
