An open letter to squirrels

Dear Squirrels,I don't know most of you, but those of you that I do know I like very much. However, this morning while I attempted my first bike ride in quite a while it seems as though you all were effing with me.Now I don't know if this was a joke or just a few odd...

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The Answers: Part 2

Happy Memorial Day! I have had a long weekend and didn't do a whole lot of running. I got in a nice 4 miler on Friday and that's been it. It's been pretty nice but tonight I gotta get some hills in because I'm feeling like a sloth. In the meantime here's part 2 of the...

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The Answers: Part 1

Let me start by saying that I had no idea how interested you people were in my love life. I may have to start an entire blog about it. However, I'm in such a total state of schmoop that you all might regret asking about it.So to answer Shannon, Katie A, Anonymous, and...

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Thankful Thursday

Thanks for all of the great questions guys! I was going to make the answers part of today's post but have decided those answers deserve their own post. If any of you didn't get your questions in, don't worry, you still have time. Just scroll down and put your...

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Ask away

Ask away

Hello friends! I know some of you have done the Q and A thing and I thought I'd hop on that train. Or boat. Or moped. Or whatever vessel it is that carries Q and A's. No really. Ask me some questions about running, Lloyd, the Redhead, the BRA, the blog. Ask whatever...

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The goodbye girl

The goodbye girl

I've been putting off this post because I thought if I put it off long enough it wouldn't actually happen. But, well, it's going to happen and there's not a lot I can do about it.My little Redhead is leaving. I'm so torn between being ridiculously happy for her and so...

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Thankful Thursday

Hey Oh! It's Thursday and we all know what that means! It's time to get thankful. Lloyd wanted me to throw in a few things he was thankful for so I've added those to today's list. I asked if he was thankful for me and he said, "Yeah. You're all right. Where's my...

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Give purple a chance

Give purple a chance

My two best friends and I have a saying. It's "Give purple a chance." Seriously. We say it all the time while shopping or discussing what out fits we'd like to purchase. It all started when my friend Jen and I were discussing what color to buy of some article of...

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Grandma’s Marathon 2026 Race Recap

It’s been 84 years since I’ve written on this website. Since more than five of you said on my social media that you would read a race recap, here we go. I will attempt brevity but I have SO much to say. Grab a beverage and settle in. PRE RACE Way back in January I saw...

2023: A Look Back

It's almost the new year, and I keep hearing people say how the year flew by. Well friends, this year did not fly by for me. I think I would have preferred that. For me, it was a year of rebuilding my fitness. It was a year of new challenges and learning to work with...

Top Ten Things That Have Helped My Mental Health During Injury

As some of you may know, I am an ambassador for Still I Run. Ironically enough, I got the news I was accepted to be an ambassador about a week before I hurt my back. The irony being that Still I Run is a cause that supports running to help with mental health, plus a...

Happy New Year!…and How to Work on Your Lower Back Pain

Happy New Year! I promised to write more, mostly to myself cause who the heck still reads this, and so here I am! I'm just shy of six weeks out from my initial back injury. I'm not sure if I call it an injury or lumbar disc disease? Either way it sucks. Here's what...

The Return of the Blog

I realize the last time I wrote an update here was February 2020. Yikes. I was all guns blazing heading into my bikini competition prep. But, we all know what happened the very next month. The C word: Covid. I tried so hard to stick with the training. Truly. I worked...

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