One question I get asked a lot is: can you recommend a running shoe for scoliosis? My response is always “yes, but…”
Choosing Running Shoes with Scoliosis: Recommendations and Tips
Training for Life: Running Through Motherhood and Scoliosis
Whenever someone asks if I’m training for a race, my answer these past few years has been simple—and always the same: Nope, I’m training for life.” And I mean it. Fully. Happily. Without sarcasm or even a hint of longing.
Four Must-Have Travel Items for Managing Scoliosis
I spent a lot of the last 10 months traveling back and forth between Boston and New York City for work and grad school. Traveling with scoliosis and a spinal fusion can be challenging, but with the right tools, staying comfortable and pain-free on the go is much easier. Over the years, I’ve found four... Continue Reading →
My Hips Don’t Lie…Until They Do
With each passing year since my spinal fusion (yesterday marks 22!) new aches occasionally pop up reminding me that, while I had corrective surgery, scoliosis is still very much present in my body—and always will be. I’m aware of the usual culprits by now: discomfort on my left side where my upper curve lingers, a... Continue Reading →
Post-Race Thoughts | 2023 Walt Disney World Marathon
The sun rose slowly over a vast deserted parking lot, its rays timidly peeking through stoic willow trees whose branches dangled quietly amidst the early morning revelry. Humidity cloaked hundreds of runners as they shuffled along the road, their breath ever so slightly visible in the chill of the morning’s air. Just beyond the incline... Continue Reading →
Newlyweds in a Pandemic: A Reflection
To add to the ever-growing echo on the interwebs, 2020 was a year unlike anyone could have imagined. When Connor and I got married, we had no idea that barely 4 months later—and en route back to the United States from our honeymoon in New Zealand—we'd be entering into a weeks-long stay-at-home order and working... Continue Reading →
Virtually Unstoppable: What I Learned Training for a Virtual Marathon
Training for and running a marathon takes guts, dedication, consistency, grit, time, mental and physical toughness...the list goes on. Training for a virtual marathon takes all of that, amplifies it ten-fold, and then cranks up the mental toughness to a level unlike anything you've experienced before. Connor and I had planned on running the Chicago... Continue Reading →
26.2 Thoughts After 26.2 Miles
We did it - Connor and I are marathoners! With more than 17 weeks of training under our (hydration) belts, we trekked 26.2 miles through New York City's five boroughs on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Many thoughts float in and out of one's head on race day, particularly when that race happens to be your... Continue Reading →
What’s Beyond That Line?
Will I cross that line? Well, this is it. After 17 weeks of training, this Sunday Connor and I take on the TCS NYC Marathon. Twenty-six point two miles through the five boroughs of New York City. It’s been 17 weeks of early mornings. Marathon training waits for no one. Alarms noisily woke us at... Continue Reading →
