TGIF!

TGIF!

TGIF! I'm quite happy it's Friday. It's been a long week and I've got fun stuff planned on what will be a chilly weekend here in the F-L-A. Tomorrow AM I'm going to set out for my first run in six weeks. I'm running walking jogging a small 5K that coincides...

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Early Chicago Goals

Early Chicago Goals

No sooner did my post about running Chicago go up than I was asked about my pursuit of the Boston Qualifying time (BQ) by a few readers. It's only natural folks would ask this and I have certainly asked myself. In planning out my racing year I was basically limited to...

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Tune in Tokyo

Tune in Tokyo

About that short hiatus...yeah it turned into a sabbatical. I haven't written a blog post in six weeks. Is anybody still out there? Ground control to Major Tom. Tune in Tokyo. I'm back! In addition to not blogging in six weeks, I haven't run in six weeks either. See...

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A Short Hiatus

Dear Readers, I've been writing this blog since May 2009. I've written 659 posts. Some of them I'm very proud of, some of them I know are terrible space fillers, but all of them are true and real and me. I've shared so much on this blog that when I look back and read...

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Ragnar Florida Keys Race Report: Part II

Ragnar Florida Keys Race Report: Part II

When we left off we had just finished our 2nd (or in my case 2nd & 3rd) legs and hit the exchange with the $3 showers. I would have paid $300 for those showers. That was the best shower I've ever taken. In a muggy, hot, high school girl's locker room. At that...

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Ragnar Florida Keys Race Report: Part I

Ragnar Florida Keys Race Report: Part I

Last weekend, ten friends and I departed Tampa for an amazing relay: Ragnar Florida Keys. Initially there were 12 of us but due to an unforeseen and unfortunate accident, we lost one runner with a fairly serious injury. He wound up in the hospital but is fine...

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Thankful Thursday

Today marks the day I leave with 11 other nutjobs and head down to Miami to start the Ragnar Relay - Key West. It's about 200 miles of running shenanigans. No sleep, maybe a shower, and lots of fun. Having completed Ragnar Florida Central twice and Sunrise to Sunset...

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The 2012 Follies

Happy New Year everyone! I know you all are either nursing hangovers and wondering who that strange person next to you in bed is (That's not my beautiful wife!) or you're the overachieving type already out for a run (you sick bastards). I on the other hand, am more...

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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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