Audrey Watters

The sun is out today for what feels like the first time this year. The weather in California has been abysmal. Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain. Wind. And more rain. There's flooding almost everywhere in the low lands while the upper elevations...

The first week of the new year meant back to the old routine — back to the gym, for starters, where I hadn't been for a month due to holidays and COVID. And damn. It was painful. The DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) from Tuesday's squats lasted well into the...

Typically, I write some sort of end-of-year reflection here on the blog — or some sort of beginning-of-year trajectory for my writing world. To wrap up 2022 — an amazing yet extraordinarily challenging year — I just decided to write all that stuff in my journal, rather than post things...

We’ve been on the road since Wednesday — I’m pretty thrilled with our RV still, despite the many challenges it brings. (The furnace doesn’t seem to stay on reliably, for example, which isn’t great when you’re camping in Death Valley in December.) Cooking is a bit of a challenge, particularly...

I finally tested negative for COVID this morning, almost two weeks after the first positive test for Kin. Funnily enough, I tested negative all the way through the plague, up until what was supposed to be the last day of our quarantine — Day 10 — then I tested positive....

After almost three years of avoiding the plague, it finally reached our house this week. My mom arrived on the first of the month, feeling a bit under the weather, but chalking it up to jet lag. But when Kin woke up on Tuesday with a sore throat and headache,...

This past week was Week 3 of the LMJS Marathon Training. The Half-Marathon Training Program doesn't officially start until the new year, but participants have been invited to do a shorter long-run with the marathon runners. The weather's been pretty awful, but thankfully it was decent on Saturday morning when...

On the Subreddit r/running, you'll often find people lamenting how slow they've gotten as they've gotten old. (And "old," more often than not, is 30 or so.) "How can I stay motivated to run," they whimper, "when my personal records are all behind me?" Others then typically suggest trail running...

Saturday morning was the kickoff for the 2023 spring marathon training with the Lake Merritt Joggers and Striders, a local running group that I've joined. I'm planning to run my first half marathon this spring, not the full 26.2 miles of a marathon, my god no, and while the training...

We're old. We have a fairly well-established routine. We're up at 5am to walk around Lake Merritt every weekday. Kin is at his desk by 7am. Me, around 7, I run or do physical therapy, except on Thursdays when I head to the gym. (I also go to the gym...