The Father’s Day race this weekend, besides being very hot, was great. I ran the 5K but noticed that most people had to just walk a little due to that heat. My husband said it was true of those running the 10K as well. I also ran extra after the race so that I…
I began reading the nonfiction book While Glaciers Slept, by M Jackson (see my interview with her), who is a climatologist and National Geographic expedition leader who studies glaciers. The author and I had some conversation, and though she is getting ready to lead an expedition now, look forward to more of our talk…
This coming weekend, my husband and I will be running in a Father’s Day race. His father will be coming with us, but I will bring my father in spirit. Since his father will be mostly walking, and my husband will run a longer leg, we will be doing our own paces. That means I…
I just realized that by the time summer officially starts I will be nearly done with my 10K training. My last day of week 7 is Saturday, when I’ll do a 55 minute run. The following week will end with a 60-minute run, and then the 9th week is a recovery week. With just about…
Last night I had a dream that what was happening in India–the terrible pollution coupled with severe heat wave (the heat is something which India’s Earth Sciences Minister, Harsh Vardhan, has attributed to climate change) had begun to happen in countries where the signs of climate change are less visible, like my own country. In…
