We’ve all been in that kind of relationship. In fact, I had been in several of them, successively. Where nothing’s wrong, exactly. But maybe the excitement has dwindled, or maybe it was never really there in the first place. The neither-here-nor-there apathy of the union precludes any real strife, but also robs you of the [...]

Very few runners rave about taper. It’s something folks either gripe about, or deny the merits of. But I actually want to like taper. During taper, suddenly, weekends are back, and there’s a little more space for the rest of life. (There actually is more to life than running.) Sadly, my body disagrees. In tapering [...]