Blog Posts

Grab the Gu, launch the Cheez-Its, and recover on a playground

By Kate Blackwood / October 27, 2023

Marathon tips you won’t find anywhere else

Lucky number 1000

By Kate Blackwood / June 25, 2023

“Great number!” one voice called to me as I tried to find my way into the start corral, a quarter mile long and crammed with runners.

Sweet Child of Mine: One story of One Marathon

By Kate Blackwood / November 5, 2022

There is more to a marathon than the start and the finish. Something happens along the way. The shape of that happening is up to the runner.

How running a marathon is going to help me publish a novel

By Kate Blackwood / October 9, 2022

What can I learn from this specific, athletic, amateur activity and apply it to the messy, years-long process of crafting a piece of literature?