Run with Robin

Lifestyle Blog

Living a healthy life can be daunting and overwhelming. Whether you want to start moving, keep moving, eat healthier or improve your lifestyle in a general sense,

I am with you. I am on a journey to live the healthiest life I can and enjoy it at the same time!

Making those healthy changes can be confusing. Sometimes you might feel alone or discouraged. If you do the work, it will be worth it, I promise.

Let me help you by sharing with you what I have learned along the way, as I have made healthy changes in my own life. The journey is not over, in fact, I feel like the more I learn, the more I need to learn!

Join me in the fight to be our best and to live healthy, happy lives. We have been given one body, one self. Let us honor the giver of these gifts with what we do and who we are.

Robin Simpson

Wife, mother, professional organizer, lifestyle coach, trainer, marathoner, follower of Jesus, friend, sister, daughter, Harry Potter nerd, lover of music - most types, especially live, reader, healthy habits geek. Desiring to be my best and help you be yours.

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August

2018

Show up.

What is the most important element in training? Easy. Showing up. It is also the most difficult. Showing up, doing the work, day after day after day. When it's hot, when it's cold. When it's raining. When you're tired. When you'd rather be somew...

August

2018

Are You Ready to Quit? I was. Again.

I didn’t want to run this morning. I wanted and needed the benefits of the run, but just didn’t want to get out there and do it. So, I didn’t. I took a bubble bath instead. Then, I decided I would do yoga, so that I would have do...

March

2018

I failed.

I have failed so many times, I can't count them all. If I did count them, I'd probably curl up and roll away. In the spirit of the year of imperfections, I thought it would be a good idea to start off with the fact that, just like everyone ...

February

2018

The Year of Imperfections

Oh, the irony of my last blog being about how to get unstuck! Yes, I've been stuck. Stuck not being able to write the next blog! Well, today marks the end of that. The end. It marks the beginning of my blog for the year 2018. It's a new da...

January

2018

How to Get UnStuck and Move Forward in 5 Easy Steps

Hello. My name is Robin and I am an over-thinker. Analyzing until you're paralyzed. Have you been there? Obviously, I have. And for some reason, I keep going back, from time to time. However, I have learned a few things over the last few years t...

September

2017

How to Deal with Illness and Injury as a Runner

My relationship with running, for the past few months has been difficult, to say the least. Frustration has ruled the day, and, as with other relationships, frustration usually calls for some patience and listening. So, that's what I have done. It...