Running
A runner's notes on logging miles, training for marathons, and keeping fitness habits alive while living overseas.
Entries filed under running collect the training log, race notes, and small experiments in staying fit in new countries.
Natasha has long described herself as a marathon runner, and the running posts follow the unglamorous middle distance: early miles before breakfast, long weekend routes, and the practical question of how a training plan survives a posting where the roads, the weather, and the altitude all change.
Read more about the author's background and the blog's purpose on the About page.
Adjusting to a new country means fitting a run into a calendar of medical appointments, household logistics, and time zones. These entries treat running less as a separate pursuit and more as one of the constants that carries over from one posting to the next.
Running overseas turns out to be less about the clock and more about the ground beneath you. The tag archive gathers training logs, race notes, and honest reflections on how a running routine survives a posting, a move, or a winter that feels unfamiliar. Expect entries on early miles before breakfast, long weekend routes across unfamiliar streets, and the small practical adjustments that keep a training plan intact when home is somewhere else entirely. The writing leans toward the unglamorous middle distance rather than podium stories, treating consistency as its own reward and fitness as a portable companion for life abroad.
The blog follows a life that has moved through El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Washington DC, Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Jordan, Laos, Nepal, New Zealand, Panama, the Philippines, Thailand, and Hawaii. Running in each one becomes a way of learning a place: the routes, the heat, and the places that are easiest to run at dawn.
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