It's time for me to admit this: I am not a smart runner

Posted on February 26, 2014 | 8 min read time

Like, just look at my knees! I come from a family of calamities. There’s always some injury or illness or something going on with my mother, father, and brother. Shattered pelvis, MRSA, severed fingertip, heart attack, broken toe…the list goes on and on. It’s actually a big joke in our family, but it does make my heart start to pound every time I see one of my parents’ phone numbers pop up on my phone. [Read More]

I now proudly and forever display being a transgender marathoner on my wrist

Posted on February 25, 2014 | 3 min read time

By the time I got to the last two years of high school, most of people in my main circle of friends were all about tattoos. I guess that’s normal when you spend most of your time with the punk and indie underground kids. I had a few tattoos that I wanted too, but I never went through with anything. Throughout high school, college, and my post college years, I was stopped from getting tattoos by one single question, “if I was a woman, would I want this on my body? [Read More]

New Jersey Marthon training update: week 7

Posted on February 24, 2014 | 1 min read time

Tank top and shorts! Also, lots of crap on my knees. Week seven of training was a complete wash. It was planned to be a step-back week to 42 miles, but I stepped it all the way down to just 23 miles. My knee is still a mess and three straight rest days to start the week didn’t seem to make a difference. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training: week 6

Posted on February 18, 2014 | 3 min read time

Week six of training was kind of a disappointment. I started off the week with an unplanned rest day on Monday. I had five miles planned, but I felt like it was better to give my knee the day off. For the middle of the week I stuck to my schedule, even though there was yet more snow. We got another foot or so of the white stuff going into Thursday morning so my run was a bit of a mess. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training: week 5

Posted on February 10, 2014 | 5 min read time

Yup, more snow! Another week down! That’s five of ‘em! This week brought more snow and crappy winter weather our way. What else is new, right? We started right off with around eight inches of fresh snow Monday morning, but luckily, I just had a five-miler to do. Tuesday night’s weather called for another 4-6” of snow with .25” of ice as well so I moved Wednesday’s ten miles up a day and did that run right after work right before the storm came. [Read More]

How not to be an ally. Or how Piers Morgan is an ass. Or, no, I never was was a man.

Posted on February 5, 2014 | 5 min read time

See the problem here? Last night, Piers Morgan invited transgender activist and all-around awesome person Janet Mock on his show for a segment to discuss her new book _Redefining Realness._ In promos for the segment and throughout the segment itself, Piers Morgan repeatedly sensationalized Janet’s story, referred to her as having previously been a man, and discussed her genitals. So much wrongness here. [Read More]

New Jersey Marathon training: week 4

Posted on February 3, 2014 | 2 min read time

A brief break in the Winter From Hell meant SHORTS AND A T-SHIRT! Well, I’m already a quarter of the way through training for the New Jersey Marathon! Four weeks down, twelve to go! Last week was the first one so far that’s gone entirely according to plan without having to shift runs around. The weather early in the week was still pretty damn cold and everything got a fresh coat of another two inches of snow in the middle of the week, but things warmed up a bit for the weekend. [Read More]