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

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...

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...

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...

July

2016

It's Really Not That Hard

“It’s really not that hard.” Those words came out of the mouth of my child and marathoner the other day as I heard her talking to someone who is thinking about training for a marathon later this year. What a proud moment...

June

2016

Surviving Tough Runs

Summer has arrived and it is hot. Along with the warmer temps and higher humidity, are more frequent tough runs. As the miles in my training are increasing, they are coinciding with the extreme conditions, which makes for tougher runs. Whether ...

June

2016

Why Run When It's So Hot?

It is hot. It is VERY, very hot. And humid. The miles are getting longer and it's going to get hotter before it gets cooler. The mornings are early and they are about to be dark and early, as the miles get longer. The runs are tough and they tak...