Caroline asks: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
I did ziplining in Puerto Rico but the craziest, make that stupidest, thing I’ve ever done is borrow my mother’s engagement ring and wear it to an REO concert when I was 16 then proceed to lose it. I’ve since replaced the ring but I will never live that one down.
Have you visited other countries?
Yes. Caveman and I moved to England just 6 weeks after we were married and lived there for a few years pre-kids. We’d travel pretty much every weekend. One country we missed that I really wanted to see: Switzerland. Favorite European cities: Oslo, Venice (anywhere in Italy is fantastic). Place I unexpectedly loved: Portugal.
As for other parts of the world: I’ve got most of the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and parts of South America covered. I was to Thailand briefly ages ago on business.
Christi asks: Brad Pitt or George Clooney?
Ha! I did not have to google these two! I’ll go Clooney. But either will do in a pinch.
Elena asks: Once piece of advice you’d give your younger self?
Don’t go borrowing any engagement rings.
No seriously my advice is: Go for it. You’re good enough. More than enough.
Molly asks: My question is about injury, since I always seem to be dealing with one. Do you slow down and kind of work with it, or cut out all activity until it’s gone?
It depends.
Knock wood, I’ve had two major injuries since I started running longer distances in 2007: ITBS and achilles tendon strain.
ITBS hit me like a ton of bricks because I ran thru the warning signs (felt like a nail was being inserted into the outside of my left knee during Chicago Marathon, 2007). I did not run at all for 4 weeks during the ITB episode.
The achilles strain happened because I ran too long in a new, wrong shoe. I was relegated to aqua jogging for 6 weeks with that one.
I seem to strain a hammy pretty much every other week it seems. With that I back off a touch, be more careful with speed work but still train.
