Throughout November on our Alumni Forum I’ve kept up what was dubbed the BUGOYA Plan. It sounds like a fancy Russian ballet group but it’s actually the acronym for the “Buck Up and Get Off Your Ass” Plan. I needed something to keep me going during this rainy fa

The pink pompom emoticon got a serious workout on the Up & Running Alumni forum last weekend as we tuned in to read a hotly-anticipated race report — Anne from Adelaide had ran her first marathon in Philadelphia. Both Julia (who coached Anne for the race) and I had follow

Just a mere ten days ago Shauna and I met up for one of our working summits. We need to meet for some face to face chatting every once in awhile and this time we chose Amsterdam. We always look for surroundings that will infuse us with creative energy and I have to say that Amsterdam

One of the many reasons that the Up & Running Alumni Forum feels like my spiritual home is that we have a lot of stationery geeks. As much as we natter away on our Forum diaries, we’re equally enamoured with the paper stuff. To name a few: Sarah documents every move with a

We have SO many things to talk about here in the Up & Running world, but before I move on I have to tell you about the last weekend in October, in Venice, Italy. I’ve been working for Venicemarathon since 1997. One of my first ideas was to bring in pacers, a novelty in the