Happy Mother’s Day! This week early daylight and spring weather made running irresistible–until windy rain made it … resistible. I mixed things up with a different running route and ran the Key Bridge-Memorial Bridge loop from my office in Georgetown.
Key Bridge-Memorial Bridge Loop
(with a loop-de-loop to use crosswalks)
On Easter weekend I learned that Rachel Held Evans, a progressive Christian author who took on the patriarchy, intolerance, and close-mindedness of the evangelical Christian church, was hospitalized in grave condition. In the ensuing days I checked her blog for the updates her husband so graciously posted, and on Saturday I learned from various Facebook postings that she had passed away.
From what her husband shared and what has been reported elsewhere, it sounds like a bad reaction to an antibiotic triggered seizures that, while initially “controlled” by a medically-induced coma, ultimately caused brain damage and led to her death.
This week I had a work retreat in Orlando, Florida. I laughed when my daughter asked if it was relaxing–it wasn’t that kind of retreat.
concrete jungle runrise
Welcome to the May Ultimate Coffee Date! Deborah and I hope your May is off to a great start, and encourage you to participate in our virtual get-together by linking up your post about what’s going on in your life and visiting and commenting on other coffee date posts. No need to rush–we’ll keep the link up open all weekend.
Grab the html code for our new coffee date badge here:
How do you recap a race that you’ve already recapped eight times? I will try to focus on what was different this time, but really it’s what is the same that makes this my favorite hometown race.
Spoiler alert: no PR, but I nailed my goal.
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