Well, I’ve recovered from my low energy. Today I got out for a short, slow run—just what I needed. This afternoon I caught up on my blog readin’. I have a few blogs I frequent because they encourage, inspire, entertain, challenge or teach me. I love writing my own blog, frankly, but I also love following a few fabulous writers who have some really valuable things to say. Here are my faves:
- http://nerkasalmon.wordpress.com/ – My pal, Tele, calls her blog Hooked: One Woman at Sea Trolling for Truth. Her language is a delight, and her experience is extraordinary. “I had never seen water like that, a surrounding blue so expansive that it swallowed even the memory of land,” she writes in her latest post of her first experience at sea. Nowadays, she is a commercial fishermen during the summer season, blogging whenever she gets a moment. She’s smart, funny, and introspective. Check out her blog. I especially like her post on the “Too Close Encounters” with a whale. I watched it over and over.
- A Bold Pace – Running for Our Lives. This is a full-service website run by a couple of women who offer products and encouragement. I like them because they are runners who support other women runners to be their best. Check ’em out!
- Mike McQuaide’s Blog. Mike is a local guy (for me) who writes about whatever suits his fancy (related to outdoor adventure). I like his blog because he has passion for his topics and he posts tons of amazing pictures. He’s a great example of someone who follows his passions.
- Runner Woman is my new favorite blog. The author, Kari, is quick and bright. She pulls her posts together with a terrific narrative arc (and I’m not just saying this because she quotes me at the top of her blog). Kari contacted me as a reader, but it turns out she’s a good writer in her own right and I’m already hooked.
What are your favorite blogs. Would love to know.
What an honor to not only have my blog included in this academy-award-like nominated list by the amazing Cami Ostman, but to be in the company of such rockstar blogs! I’m now following ALL of them. This has now set me on a quest to find some more. In the mean time, I’d like to recommend two of my favorite blogs both by some very cool and inspirational “average” women runners (i.e. they are not average at all):
http://bqby40.blogspot.com/
&
http://beautifulathlete.com/
Check them out!
Kari
Aw, Cami! I’m honored – thank you, thank you. It’s no overstatement to say that Hooked (and my other writing efforts) wouldn’t exist without the inspiration and encouragement I’ve gotten from you. Thanks for being a torch-bearer, friend!
Can’t wait to check these out, Kari! Thanks for passing them along.