It all started a few years ago when, at work and bored out of my mind by sheer accident, I came across the online diary of one Heather Armstrong. When I came across her blog on that rainy afternoon so many years ago she was pregnant with her first child, and after reading the first paragraph of her entry for that day, I was immediately sucked into the vortex that is her absolutely brilliant writing ability. I was glued to her archives for the remainder of the afternoon and evening, and continued to catch up on all of her musings the next day, and the day after, until I had literally read every single sentence she had ever published. 

Ever since I took that first step into the world of blogging I have been quite fascinated with the amount of personal information people are willing to share with total strangers in cyberspace. Over the years I found a few blogs I stuck with and read on a daily regular basis and some I only read a few times before leaving them behind. And even though I have been an avid runner for a couple of decades I only recently ventured into the world of running blogs and became a blogger myself. I had thought about it for quite some time but I just never got around to sitting down and actually starting it. The sun was too bright, it was too rainy, the dog needed walking, I had to go to the gym/track/trail/Starbucks, dinner needed to be cooked, friends to be visited, and on and on, until one day I just sat down and did it. Not unlike that gray November day in 1987 in Chester Springs, PA when I laced up my tennis shoes for the first time with the sole intention of going for a run. 

Hubby had been nice enough to set up the basics for me on WordPress and I had run out of excuses. Of course when your introduction to the Blog World is Heather you will have an endless hill to climb in order to even come remotely close to her standard and anyone could give up before they even started. But I am stubborn and persistent, which has helped me reach the finish line a few times and even got me a nice collection of medals for placement wins. From the beginning it had never really been my intention to write a blog that was totally focused on running. Although I could talk endlessly about the infinite details of running with my running buddies I understand that those amongst us that don’t share this addiction passion could easily fall into a boredom induced coma when they have to listen to us runners discuss finish times, pace goals, and splits. Besides, there are plenty of other subjects I deeply care about. And it feels good to get them out through writing in this most public of forums. For all to see. 

I do have a couple of regular features that keep my blog title honest: my personal running/exercise log (updated daily) and the “Today’s Running Tip” (updated with every new post), and then of course there is the weekly Runners Lounge TiART post. It all helps keeping me on track and making sure That Girl keeps on Running and writing about it and other things nobody wants to hear.

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