The Michigan Runner Girl Podcast

Heather Durocher, a Traverse City-based journalist and health and wellness writer, founded MichiganRunnerGirl.com back in 2010. She’s been hosting a podcast via the site as well for the past few years. Yesterday, I had the honor for the fourth or fifth time of being a guest on the Michigan Runner Girl Podcast. Heather and I talked mostly about how final …

Prime day is over.

Just as promised a few days ago, I spent much of the afternoon trying to convince myself to buy something on Amazon for prime day. I did, in fact, buy a few items, but they were items I’d had sitting in my cart for the last few weeks. All the Amazon devices (echo, echo show, kindle, etc.) had decent pricing …

TriggerPoint Nano Foot Roller

I rarely use the TriggerPoint Nano Foot Roller to massage my feet. I use it almost exclusively to roll out my chronically tight piriformis and glutes. It’s the perfect width to hit both piriformi at once, or I can shift my weight a little bit to reeeally dig into one side. I sit down on it like it’s a foam …

It’s Prime Day.

I haven’t been super impressed by the deals on Amazon’s Prime Day the past few years, but nonetheless you’ll likely find me wasting way too much time searching for the must-have deals I can’t live with out.

Rojo The Llama

If you’re in the Portland area, you may have heard of Rojo The Llama. He’s the coolest llama you’ll ever meet. I got to meet him today. Unfortunately, Rojo is retiring after 17 years as a therapy llama, so if you haven’t already met him, now is the time.

Night Owl Writer

While I like to talk about the times when I have a solid early morning routine, getting up pre-dawn, going for a run, and getting some writing done, all before the sun rises, there are periods when this just simply doesn’t happen. This is one of those times. I have to admit that since our second daughter came along a …

Trickle Charge It

Did you know that if your car battery gets drained that you may need to use a trickle charger to recharge it, rather than by jumping it or using a fast charger? Me neither. Thanks to the helpful dude at O’Riley’s I didn’t need to return my 18-month old battery. It just needed a slow, overnight charge.

When Streaking Becomes Stressful

As I have talked about ad nauseam around this blog, I love streaking. Streaking is a huge motivation for me, and it’s many times one of the biggest motivating factors for me. Sometimes, though, the stress of a streak can grow too much. Well, not the stress of the streak itself, but the stress of “oh my gawd, I have …

Mental Toughness

It seems like in today’s culture there’s a hack for just about everything. As David Goggins describes in Can’t Hurt Me, there’s no shortcut to creating a tough mind. You have to do the things you don’t want to do. Period. Essentially, you have to do the hard work. Just like you have to do lots of hard work to …