Track and Field Blogs - Lori Zimmerman

(Okay, so these titles are really generic, but a good way to put things into perspective and keep some context and continuity...)

The 29 days of February were all over the place, literally: we started out the month in Seattle, where we spent a great week visiting the good folks at the Brooks corporate headquarters in Bothell and exploring the Pacific Northwest – which even had some snow to make us feel right at home. We were back in Michigan for about 10 days before heading south for some spring training in Hilton Head, South Carolina and… more »

I'm a little late posting this -- I should have had it up last week -- but things have seemed a little hectic lately, with several trips and too much work... Everyone had good runs down south in January, although most of us got sick during (me) or right after (everyone else) those trips... fortunately we had downtime to recover.

This "downtime" concept is new to me; normally it would freak me out to take off time just a few months before a big marathon -- but I have to say that it was a welcome and… more »

This is my first time ever blogging, so please bear with me. I have been dubbed the "Grandma" of the group due to my advanced age, but I'm doing my best to keep up with my speedy teammates, in many more ways than just running, since coming on board last month.

I grew up in west Michigan, but I've lived in milder climes for most of the past 20 years. And I haven't spent the entire month of December in a single time zone -- much less a single state, or in Michigan -- since I was… more »