Weekend Recap

Weekend Recap

Happy Monday friends! I hope you all had lovely weekends. Congrats to all of the ladies who kicked major butt at the Women's Half Marathon in St. Pete. I am reading the recaps as time allows and I'm bummed I didn't get to run with you all. HUGE congrats to Kat on her...

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Friday Funnies

First off, I must apologize for that horrific video I posted yesterday. You can blame Good Morning America for showing it to me and you can blame Rebecca Black for starting a trend of bad youtube music videos made by tweens. Speaking of videos, as I was perusing...

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Thankful Thursday

I joined a track group in my neck of the woods right before I ran the Miami Marathon in January. This weekly track group and workouts are coached by a man named Dror Vaknin who is the coach of the local college track team. He's been featured in Runner's...

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Tuesday Truths

Tuesday Truths

1. I may have lost some of my motivation for swimming and cycling lately. However, I'm in love with running again. 2. Lifting weights has really helped my IT band. And I hate lifting weights. 3. I saw Weezer on Friday night and when they said their "blah blah blah hit...

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Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday

Now that the election hubbub is finally over we can all go back to what's truly important in our day-to-day lives. And we can finally watch TV free of political ads and full of ads on feminine hygiene products. Hooray tampons! Yay wings! Hallelujah FDS!...

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Pre Miami 70.3 with Nick Me, Jess, and Big Sis before the 5K last weekend BRA reunion with Hollster, Kat, and P-Funk.

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For Raoul

Sometimes you meet someone and you instantly click. That person for me is my best friend Patricia, AKA P-Funk. I feel like I've known her for a thousand years and we always seem to be the last two people laughing when everyone else has quieted down. I'm so fortunate...

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Oh that’s right! I have a blog.

Oh that’s right! I have a blog.

This is the longest I've gone without writing a blog post since I started DR way back in 2009. With my new job, post race workouts (or lack thereof), and a busy Halloween month schedule, I've been preoccupied. I'm not saying "Oh, I'm so important" or anything, I just...

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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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