Running
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Tis the season for family gatherings and good old summertime barbecues. Friends and family come over to visit and eat and drink. There’s always a group that nabs the chairs around the kitchen table as soon as they arrive. Some will hit the patio or front porch, always a few that linger in the kitchen, and a…
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Sometimes I don’t want to do the good things, the things that will get me to my goal, the things that are good for me. Sometimes I want to sleep in and wake up whenever I want and without an alarm. Sometimes I want to eat donuts and fried foods and a loaf of french…
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Seems like when the universe is trying to get a message or some guidance to me, it bombards me with direction. Every blog and article I read, every podcast I listen to, every vlog I watch will be related to that which I need to pay attention. Clearly the universe knows that I don’t take…
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It’s Thursday, which means nothing really, but in social media world it has become #throwbackthursday. People posts pictures from last week, last month, their first 5k or marathon, or maybe a picture from high school, which for some us was a long, long time ago! (What were we thinking with that big hair?!) For my…
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I’ve been having an identity crisis of late. Maybe it’s a midlife crisis or an existential crisis. Maybe it’s not a crisis at all. Maybe I’m just trying to figure out what I’m doing with my life and why. My last post I wrote about running 16+ miles on the trails at the site of the…
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I have been training – or at least acting like I’m training – to run the North Fork 50 mile trail race on June 4. Part of that training was running the Desert Rats Trail Running Festival – you can read about that on my previous post. I made arrangements to participate in a training run…
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I wasn’t planning on running a marathon last weekend. I originally was going to do the half marathon distance – but I’d been doing 12-14 miles on the weekend and doing 13 wasn’t really going to benefit my training. In spite of the fact that I’m supposed to be training for a 50 mile race…
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