Dirt in your skirt blog

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Posted on September 30, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Imelda Marcos once said, “I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.“ Well Imelda Marcos I am not, but I am building up quite a collection of running shoes, looking at the boxes which came in the mail today one would think I......
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Posted on September 29, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Since I have been still resting my body post race, adding in some rolling and stretching I decided to take today to write about a substance I have become intimate with in the last few months, MUD. Mud and I should expand that to dirt seem to be everywhere in......
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Posted on September 28, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Another day of recovery and letting my IT Band untangle itself. However, we took it up a notch today and I graduated from the foam roller to another tool which has not hit the markets yet but I can tell you it was one of the most painful and best......
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Posted on September 27, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
It is funny how along this journey I have come to rely on things I once thought were funny and pointless. The first being the ice bath and well I think I have already carried on enough about them. Today is dedicated to one thing, my foam roller.   Yup......
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Posted on September 27, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
It happened After a night of nerves running extremely high, just ask some of my friends with whom I swapped texts with on Saturday night. I was a ball of nerves, yes I had trained but this was a huge new challenge. When the alarm went off at 5:30am it......