January Race Shirt-A-Day Challenge

January Race Shirt-A-Day Challenge

Since everyone is hopping on challenges lately, I figured January would be a good time to start a fun one that requires no dieting, planking, squatting, or anything else that would necessarily work up a sweat. It's the lazy man's challenge really. Ha! I have to give...

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Mt Dora Half Marathon Race Report

I was a terrible blogger this weekend. I took all of two pictures. And neither of them are "OMG food" or "I love running look at me!" I know. Can you believe it? I just plain forgot to take photos. I wasn't really in the mood to run a half marathon to be honest even...

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Disney Goofy & Dopey Charm Giveaway Winners!

Hi everyone! Sorry I'm late on this. I was actually AT Disney yesterday. I think I can be forgiven since I did have a pretty good excuse. 😉 Without further ado, the winners of the Milestones charms giveaway... Congratulations to Karen from Working it Out for winning...

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Friday Fun!

Friday Fun!

Happy Friday the 13th! I love Friday the 13th! Mostly because it's Friday, but also because I love me some Jason. Speaking of funny, I don't think I showed you all this outstanding photo of Meghan, Tori, and I modeling our wetsuits last weekend. I mean, I always feel...

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Funny Blog Stuff

Funny Blog Stuff

I know you all have seen the "captcha" box that pops up on some blogs to make you verify that you aren't a spammer-robot. I have gone back and forth on keeping this on my blog and I've got different reasons for the yo-yo'ing. I hate making my friends do the captcha...

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Week 3 – Jacksonville Marathon Training

As I mentioned yesterday, I had a pretty solid 20 mile run on Saturday. My left heel was achy as I warmed up, but felt fine after about a mile. I made a hasty decision to purchase some "heel cups" on Friday and pay the crazy over night shipping fee. And then, even...

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Sprinkles! Holiday Cookie Decorating Class

Sprinkles! Holiday Cookie Decorating Class

I mentioned last week how I was super stoked to go to Sprinkles! a holiday cookie decorating class benefiting the Susan Sheppard McGillicuddy Breast Center at St. Anthony’s Hospital hosted at the gorgeous Renaissance Vinoy in St. Petersburg. I was even more stoked to...

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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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