Joel

Distance RelayMarathon
Written By Mona Angéline

Joel recently joined a local competitive team but has significant time constraints as the sole caretaker for two children. One is five months old! He'd like to do well in the PA-USATF Road Grand Prix, even though he can only run one day a week. A couple of marathons await in the distance as well.

In the short term, he's training for the Christmas relays. This race is way more competitive than it sounds! Some of the fastest club runners line up to run around Lake Merced in San Francisco.

We'll make sure to pack a punch when it comes to Joel's Sunday runs, and during the week, we'll design at-home workouts that help with power. Who says you have to constantly run to get fast? There are other ways! And who knows, maybe one day Joel will even have access to a treadmill.

But for now, we wish him the best, because what matters most in running is the life around it, and Joel is choosing his children—every day. Hats off, Joel!

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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