TMI and My Mind is Blown
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by ShutUpandRun
5M ago
Raise your hand if you didn't get your period until you were 16.  Yes, in fact, I was 192 months old (16) when  I got my mine Funny side story: We were visiting the ruins in Olympia, Greece when mine started. I think this means something, but I'm not sure what. Maybe that I am meant to go to the Olympics. Or, maybe I was just trying to get out of seeing one more Greek temple.  (Also, why do they call it a period? Well, I just googled it and OMG! Now I know the Greek-connection. "Period is rooted in the Greek words "peri" and "holdos" meaning "around" and "way/path ..read more
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I "Ran" a 50 Miler and Now I'm Unemployed
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by ShutUpandRun
5M ago
Hey, I've missed you. I suppose it's very possible to have an existential crisis at the age of 56. Not that I would know anything about that. I mean - I just lost my job, my husband got laid off, my kids have flown the nest, I have been dizzy for the past seven months and I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. Why am I like this? Maybe this is why I don't have a job? On another note: remember when our kids were young and someone would ask how old they were and we would give their age in months? I'm going to start doing that now. I am officially 682 months old. Never mind. Th ..read more
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Do NOT Water Down My Margarita + Countdown to Race Day
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by ShutUpandRun
1y ago
I'm feeling the love. I missed you too. People still DO read blogs! It was really reassuring to learn how many of you have dogs that eat turds. But, the question keeping me up at night is why don't cats do it? My estimation is that they are far too sophisticated for that BS. If they were going to do it, they would be so embarrassed about their behavior that they would likely hide shamefully in an old Amazon Prime box and do it in there under the dark of night. Tomorrow we leave for the airport at 5am for Phoenix to get there in time to get the the Rock 'n Roll race expo before it closes. I cho ..read more
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My Personal Rim Job (Rim to Rim to Rim of the Grand Canyon)
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by ShutUpandRun
2y ago
HI! Do you hear something? That is the sound of me resurrecting this blog from the annals of the blog graveyard. I know there are other causalities out there. But, this resurrection could only be done for something epic like me not having to poop during a 48.3 mile run. Or, maybe that I even did a 48.3 mile run. Or, maybe that the 48.3 mile run was done from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon down to the Colorado River, up to the North Rim of the canyon and back again. In one day! This is called Rim to Rim to Rim or if you are really cool, you call it R3. 48.3 miles. 12,000 feet of elevati ..read more
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Ripping Off The Band Aid
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by ShutUpandRun
3y ago
Do you ever realize that the more you put things off, the bigger the snowball becomes and the harder it is to just start? I've missed blogging and this community. But, there has been a part of me that is simply shut down to blogging and to this type of writing. It's not really because I don't want to. I just think my creative juices (sounds dirty) and motivation have been stalled. I could blame it on Covid because Covid sucks ass and it's become easy to make it the scapegoat for everything that is not right. Because honestly, no part of life is not affected by this beast of a virus that has c ..read more
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I Forgot How Hard That Was (No, It's Not a Penis)
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by ShutUpandRun
4y ago
Last weekend I did my first triathlon (1.2 mile swim, 56 miles bike, 13.1 mile run) in five years. It hurt like hell. I don't know if it's cause I'm five years older or just a pussy, but that took a lot of mental and physical fortitude. Since the Dirty Thirty 50k in the beginning of June, I switched gears from trail running to full triathlon mode My workout life became swimming, biking and running. I returned to the pool full of its pubic hair, used band aids and senior aerobics (hey, pussy posse! Remember me?). I rejoined the cycling world putting in miles upon miles every weekend, usually f ..read more
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A Different Kind of Race + Taint Talk
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by ShutUpandRun
5y ago
I seriously ghosted every single one of you for the past six weeks. I am a douche. I'm a believer that the best writing comes from a desire to write not an obligation. And, I just haven't been feeling it. Never fear - I'm still out here doing my thing. Since the Dirty Thirty 50K I've kicked my triathlon training into high gear to get ready for the Harvest Moon 70.3 in Boulder next month. But last weekend I did a trail race just to mix things up. It was the Cirque Series - A Basin. You've likely never heard of this series. Neither had I. I thought maybe I was joining Cirque du Soleil and I'd ..read more
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2019 Dirty Thirty 50k Race Report
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by ShutUpandRun
5y ago
It's 3:30 a.m. and I get a whiff of something horrible in the SUV. Turns out it's Jeanne's egg and ham sandwich that she is eating prior to the start of our Dirty 30 50k in 2ish hours. Who eats that before a race? Apparently Jeanne. Normally it might not have smelled so bad, but I had that pre-race queasy stomach. Nerves mixed with curvy mountain roads. Let's not throw up before this thing even starts. The race was to start at 6 a.m. We live over an hour away and wanted to be sure to get parking and poop time. Plus, there's always the last minute debate about what to wear and the application ..read more
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The Ass Kicker Run: Boulder Skyline Traverse (5 peaks, 18 miles)
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by ShutUpandRun
5y ago
As I sit here writing this, my quads are burning. As in, the type of burning that doesn't let you sit down on the toilet seat without grimacing. This is the reward I get for the ball busting run I did on Saturday with Jeanne, my trail wife. It was the last big run before taper starts for the Dirty 30 50k coming up on June 1. I really don't know why it's called the Dirty 30 (probably because there is dirt and it's just over 30 miles and it rhymes). I like to think there's some dirty hidden surprise I will find on the trails when I run the race. Like your dad's old Playboy magazine. I'll let ..read more
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Hey Future Self! Are You Listening?
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by ShutUpandRun
5y ago
In eighth grade the teachers told her to write some letters to her future self. That was four years ago, and this week, as a high school senior, my daughter got those letters back. I'm not crying. You're crying, as they say. Her: One of the biggest thing I learned is you need friends who make you happy. Me: Have you ever had a friend that sucked the life out of you? Or a friend that was selfish and self centered? Or the kind who stabbed you in the back or was all about the drama? These people can make us miserable, yet we hold onto them sometimes for fear of letting go of the past or becau ..read more
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