Toot toot, yeah pee pee!

Toot toot, yeah pee pee!

I am so hard core this week. Yeah, yeah I know it's only Monday but I am hard core. You see, my training plan starts the week on Sunday.I ran my recovery four miler yesterday in Orlando while my friends The H's went to church. While they were gone I played with their...

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Pay It Forward (CLOSED)

Pay It Forward (CLOSED)

Fellow Floridian blogger Kristin, from BonBon Rose had a Pay It Forward contest/giveaway and I decided to play. Here's how it works: the first three readers to comment on this post will win a little treat from me. The only rule is that you have to pay it forward with...

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Bird Turd

I mosied over to Orlando last night and stayed at Redhead Running's place. We watched a bit of "He's Just Not That Into You" before I had to get in bed or I was going to zonk out on Redhead's couch. The movie, by the way was pretty cute and kind of sad at the same...

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Hair sometimes overrides hard core

Hair sometimes overrides hard core

Basically tonight my vanity over came my will to be hard core. In fact Navy Steve, from the BRA (running group), told me yesterday that I was hard core and then took it away today when I skipped track for... a hair appointment. I know, I know, pathetic, but my hair is...

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So much to say, so much to say

So much to say, so much to say

While I am not a Dave Matthews Band fan, I couldn't help but use this as the title for my post today because well, quite frankly, I got a lot to say.Let me start by saying how awesome the No Doubt concert was. How is it that they have been around since 1986 and they...

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Take this pink ribbon off my eyes….

Take this pink ribbon off my eyes….

I'm just a girl, trying to get hard core. And since I am going to see the one and only Gwen Stefani tonight with Redhead Running I figured what better to get hard core then to get up at 5:30 AM and run four miles? It was the fastest, sleepiest four miles ever. I just...

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Toenails, we hardly knew ye and It’s all relative.

After looking for hard core B.o.B. to show up at the track I went home and peeled off my sweaty socks only to notice that toenail #2 was on it's way out. It's basically become a rite of passage amongst most of the runners I know. Now I am as vain as any other 20...

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Not by the hair of my shinny, shin, shin.

So here it is. Official first post. Let's begin shall we?I am officially in week one of training for marathon number three. The Marine Corps Marathon in Washington D.C.As per usual, I have been slightly slacking. I swore this would be the week of a new, improved...

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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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