The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
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My name is Angela. I am distance runner, a self proclaimed dream chaser & a believer in serendipity. I live in the Colorado mountains, but I am originally from New Jersey. My blog is called The Road Less Run because I am a runner who doesn’t do things the traditional way.
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
1y ago
It’s been a while since I wrote something and I don’t have a great reason for it except that I haven’t wanted to. I don’t have anything exciting to share. Postpartum running has been really challenging. I am nearly 14 months postpartum and I still pee my pants every time I run–I have seen a pelvic floor PT, consulted my doctor, and tried to alter my stride. The nurse at my doctor’s office told me that it should improve when I stop breastfeeding, and to that there is no end in sight. I had a terrible SI joint injury [from pregnancy] last March and I could not walk without pain for 6 weeks. If I ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
1y ago
The always turns to never
It slowly fades away
Always is the before
Always is today
The always before the never
It’s past
It changes fast
It will not last
The never is now
The never is always
The never is fragments of forever
The always and the never endlessly change
Always, never, and forever make a dynamic exchange ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
2y ago
Grieving what was
Not knowing
What is will soon become what was
It all becomes memories
Without knowing
Uneventful events should be cherished
Connectedness and passing time
Intertwining one moment to the next
Why don’t we realize that it will perish?
It is unknown when something is the last until it becomes a memory past
Embrace it all, for change will come
Tick, tick, tick
It always ticks away
The end will come to another day
The days are long
Yet they fly by
Wishing what is, was
Sadness falls upon the changing world
Connecting, evolving, revolving around
What—Is—Was
Connected
Weaving from th ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
2y ago
People say that it takes a village to raise a child, and I don’t disagree, but it’s the community within the village that makes it possible. We live in an amazing place with an incredible community. When I first started telling people that I was pregnant we immediately started finding baby gifts on our doorstep! It seemed like all of the mothers in town were offering us things their children grew out of and no longer needed. I appreciated the input from other mothers about which baby gear was useful and helpful and which baby gear was completely unnecessary. Our entire community was genuinely ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
2y ago
I was recently contacted by Defender Rings for a product review. Reviewing this product excited me because these rings are the most discrete and stylish self defense product I’ve seen! These rings do not look like self defense rings and they can be worn all the time without revealing that they could be used as a means for protection and a way to collect an attackers DNA. I was asked to pick out two rings to wear and review. I chose a ring that looks like a rose with a top that screws off to revel its “thorn” and a ring that has two points that, in my opinion, resemble cat ears! I love cats and ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
2y ago
Over seven years ago I decided to start a blog, and though posts have been infrequent lately I am still here. I am still writing even if no one reads it.
When I started this blog I was a 27 year old soon to be graduate student, a new coach, and I was training and competing at a high level. I was chasing dreams and trying to create a different reality. The truth is that reality is never actually what you think it is going to be. I’m living in reality and it isn’t what I was crafting at the time. It’s better.
Now, I am a 34 year old soon to be mother to a baby girl with a very uncertain future ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
2y ago
Sometimes things don’t go as planned. Sometimes when you are already fearful and already struggling things get worse before they get better. For me, this is one of those times.
I was struggling with my pregnancy during the first trimester. I didn’t feel well, I was overwhelmed, I was injured, and I had this nagging fear in the back of my mind that something would be wrong with my baby. I was so fearful that something would be wrong with my baby or that I would loose her that I prevented myself from truly feeling connected to her until about 18 weeks into the pregnancy. I told myself that after ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
3y ago
Being in New Jersey is a glimpse at everything that could have been, everything that never will be, and everything I would have lost by not leaving and letting go. Leaving home was challenging. Returning home each time is more challenging. Some things have changed, but many things have stayed the same. Any changes are so subtle that I’d never notice them if I had been here. I only notice changes because I am far away. I notice changes that are unnoticable to the naked eye. I notice things that would go unnoticed in day to day life. When you are gone and return any small changes seem shockingly ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
3y ago
Pregnancy, for me, has always been this abstract idea. I’ve learned about it and appreciated it from afar. I had a very clear picture in my head for what my life would be like if I ever found myself pregnant. I imagined I would be able to carry on with life uninterrupted–that I would be an outlier who didn’t feel exhausted or sick, and that being pregnant would present no challenges.
Similarly, any time in my running career that I’ve found myself injured I’ve always assumed that the injury would not be a setback, that I would be able to continue running and going to the gym in the same capacit ..read more
The Road Less Run | Colorado Running Blog
3y ago
She paints a picture every day
of the reality she believes she can create
of the things she wants to achieve and how to make her way
The picture fades as the night falls
despite her efforts of giving it her all
It was never going to be a masterpiece
for her to hang on the wall
It was always going to be a dream ceased
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The picture is an image, a dream that slipped away
Because she cannot create her own fate
and when she tries it results in an eternal wait
Even on the days that she believes she has made a gain
Her shattered dreams, against her fate ..read more