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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February

2017

How to Take Your First Steps

For the past 12 years, I have been turning couch potatoes into marathoners with Marathon Makeover. We start by walking one mile. Sometimes, the starting distance is shorter, so we are a "start where you are" type program. The journey to the finish...

September

2016

Improve Your Running Experience With This One Thing

For as long as I have been running, I have been working to improve my experience and performance. In the past several months, I have discovered how by being mindful. Mindfulness, as defined by Google, is as follows: mind·ful&middo...

September

2016

My Goal

On this first day of a brand new month, I am sitting down to review my present goal with Marathon Makeover. My goal: To build an online community of reforming couch potatoes, bringing positive life change through walking/running a 1/2 and/or f...

August

2016

Why Continue to Run?

Every now and then, I will have someone ask me how long I will run? When am I going to stop? The first time I was asked, it caught me off guard. Why would I stop? What would it mean to me to stop running, to stop moving? Honestly, that's...

August

2016

For Beginners - and Beginners Again!

All of us go through phases in our exercise routines. I guess you could call them seasons. It seems that the goal for most people is to get fit and to stay fit. While that would certainly be the ideal, it isn't as easy or realistic to think that...

July

2016

5 Tips for Sick Runners

Training for a marathon or distance event and you’re sick? Don’t panic! So, you’ve trained for months, you have a matter of weeks before your race and you get sick. What do you do? This is a question that we address quite fr...