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Marathon Miles: the Week in Numbers
(only one mention of running here, but it still qualifies as a Marathon Miles entry because…well…because I said so) A list of things that happened last week, by numbers: 1. One girl pulled my ponytail...
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Marathon Miles: Grand Bara
Best race of the year: 15k in the Grand Bara. The Grand Bara is one of the flattest stretches of barren desert in the entire world. It is an emergency landing site for space shuttles because there are...
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How to Express Undying Love
How to express your undying love for the sweaty, red-faced woman jogging by: Stand at attention, right hand in a full and stiff salute. Step directly into her running path so that she either has to...
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Running Motivation
I don’t want to run. Anymore. Its hot and it isn’t even that hot yet. I’m tired of people staring and laughing and mimicking my highly un-athletic running form. Tired of the same old view of garbage...
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How to Not Quit Running
I’m not saying I got the motivation back but I kept running. I am saying thanks for your comments. I took them to heart. Finagled a friend into trying a 30-minute jog with me. Read running articles....
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Mogadishu and Boston Bomb Attacks
This was, again, a bloody week. I hate bloody weeks. If I were British could I say, “I bloody hate bloody weeks?” Bombs in Boston. I’m a marathoner and know the feeling at the end of a race. It should...
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Running Barefoot, Dehydrated, and Naked. Or Not.
(This post is in honor of The Reeds, who asked about the experience of running in Djibouti months ago and I forgot. Failed to answer their questions. But I think, finally, this post will address some...
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Maybe We All Need To Be Heckled
The word heckle comes from the process of turning flax into linen. Billy Bryson, perhaps not the world’s greatest historian but certainly one of the best at making history fascinating and humorous,...
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Run or Hide
The comments in response to my post Running Barefoot, Dehydrated, and Naked, Or Not made me think about ways I try to mask my abundance and the subsequent lie I am tempted to believe that this somehow...
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How Lucy Feels About Being on a Filming Trip
where are we going? watching races watching more races, but if they are running that way, Lucy runs the other way climbing up the bleachers in search of shade and cold water on set in the desert more...
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Making a Movie
A few photos from my week of movie-making. Or rather, my week of observing movie-making. Pleasepleaseplease don’t miss Brian Vernor’s stunning shots of the girls. They’ll give just the tiniest...
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Rice or Writing
All I could do today for writing work was hit ‘send.’ That little motion drained me. Instead, I spent the day riding along on a rice delivery to the Girls Run 2 families and hearing more of their...
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The Good Samaritan For Women
Quick link: The Good Female Samaritan: What I learned when I passed a man on the road Yesterday I had a post up at Her.meneutics (had to look up how to spell that one) about when I ran by a man I...
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The (Running) Overseas Life
Quick link: A Practical (Running) Life Overseas Today I’m writing at A Life Overseas with A Practical (Running) Life Overseas, the first in what will be three posts about running as an expatriate....
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Finding Strong Movie Trailer
I am interrupting the Painting Pictures Third Culture Kid series (resuming next week with Tara Livesay, nobody wants to miss that) to bring you the trailer for the visually stunning and inspirational...
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What Do Celebrities Say About the Marathon?
Quick link: Celebrity Marathon Quotes What did Will Ferrell say about running the marathon? Oprah? Pamela Anderson? What did one surprise celebrity say? Celebrities look gorgeous all the time. Except...
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Girls Run 2, New Website
Girls Run 2 because, well, girls run, too. Sometimes they aren’t supposed to run, sometimes they are thought of as crazy when they run. But sometimes you just can’t stop them from running. In 2008 I...
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Another Mother Runner
Quick link: Who Says Women (Mothers) Can’t Run? Today I’m writing at Babble about the race I was never allowed to enter in Djibouti (which is happening again tomorrow) and how this inspired me to host...
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How to Plan Your Own Race
Quick link: 10 Tips for Planning Your Own Race Today at Babble I’m writing about the 10 things I’ve learned for how to plan and host your own race. The half-marathon I’m kept out of is happening again...
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Medina’s Eye
Read about Medina’s new eye and about how Girls Run 2 is changing lives through running by signing up for the Djibouti Jones monthly newsletter, delivered to your inbox (insha allah) on the first of...
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