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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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...

May

2017

The Marathon Effect

Many times, when someone finds out that I run marathons, their reaction is confusion. Confusion first, and then, fear that I'll drag them into it! You can see the questions on their face and, sometimes, actually hear them ask, why? how? WHY? The...

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

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

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...

June

2016

How To Get Your Training Started In 3 Easy Steps

My name is Robin Simpson and I am a marathoner. I began as a couch potato and, over the course of about 9 months, I became a marathoner. That was 12 years ago. Now, I help others do the same. Becoming a marathoner is one of the best things I've...