Lookout weekend!

I don't normally post my runs for the week because, well, I think it's boring to you all. However, it does really help hold one accountable for their actions. I am hoping for slightly more mileage next week as this week my Wednesday MLR (medium long run) sucked butt....

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Thankful Thursday

Well hello there Thursday! You sneak up on me every week and I find myself happy to see you and ready to give thanks unto ye. Heh.OK, so for today I am thankful for my morning drive to work and the station I listen to, Wild 94.1 (O and the Freak Show). You see, I work...

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They’re always after me lucky charms

My good buddy Jess, a fellow BRA member and super quick runner, offered to help me think of some topics for this here little blog. She offered up the suggestion of discussing pre-race rituals and superstitions or lucky charms. No, not the cereal (delicious though it...

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Sappy Sapperson

Holy stinky running shoes Batman! Where the crap did all of you come from? How is it that there are over a hundred of you reading this fluff, er I mean my Nobel prize worthy journalism?YIKES! The pressure is almost too great for me to go on!Then where would all of you...

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Deep Thoughts

OK so moving on from Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood and back to running. (No Boyz in the Hood style drive-bys yet, I'll keep you all posted.)I had a pretty good 18 miler today. P-Funk and I were under pace the whole run and I am pretty sure we hit some negative splits....

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There goes the neigborhood

There goes the neigborhood

Happy Friday peeps! Today's post is a bit largely off topic*, but who cares? I do what I want!When I moved back to my home town my roommate and I chose to live in an apartment community that we thought was relatively nice (for an apartment community) and safe. We got...

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Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday

I was thinking about this post today while I was showering off the sweat from my speed work this morning. P-Funk and I met up early to get The Plan's scheduled 8 x 800's in. We kicked ass. (Like how I worked in my awesomeness?) Anyway, while I was thinking of what I...

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BRA’s Top Ten Reasons Phidippides Died

Tuesday already? Aack! I had a super busy weekend and had a conference to attend yesterday in Orlando. I am back in the office today and will be intermittently reading all of your fabulous blogs.Fortunately, I made it back yesterday in time for some good 'ol Gangster...

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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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