I stumbled upon a great article at www.runnersworld.com. It lists 30 things every woman should know about running. I found every one of these to be alarmingly true -- though I confess to be a major violator of #3.

Beware -- some of this is kind of T.M.I., but, in my personal experience, it's all quite true. Even the pregnancy parts -- which, by the way, I can also confirm. I ran until I gave birth and yes, my girls were big old healthy babies (no one told me then that runners have bigger babies or I may have quit runnning for a few months! But, then...it's probably the running that gave me the strength to birth the babies in less time than it takes to run a marathon.

Read the article here.

Note to Swings -- 10 & 23 -- and 30!