Cupcakes and Puppies

Cupcakes and Puppies

I'm back from DC kids! I went up there last week for vacation and to celebrate this one's completion of her first Ironman! And the subsequent great news of her puppy Graham's recovery from emergency surgeries.  "I'm a mutha f@cking Ironman!" I also did...

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Thankful Thursday

What's up peeps? I hope you all had awesome Independence Days. I'm posting this from DC and currently have a much healthier Graham lying under my feet. I'm sure he is so happy to be feeling so much better and his parents are so thankful and also, very happy. I got to...

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Weekend Recap

Weekend Recap

Happy happy Monday! I had an awesome weekend and rode my face off. I covered 70 miles in two days and while that isn't a lot for some of you, it's a big increase in back-to-back mileage for me.  On Friday I had an MRI on this hamstring. Unfortunately, I've yet to...

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for Graham

Dear Blog Friends, I'm very sad for our dear blogging buddy Katie. She just finished her first IM and should be celebrating. Instead, she's very worried for Graham. You see, Katie has three gorgeous golden retrievers and one of them is very sick. Graham is Katie's...

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Thankful Thursday

Now that the race is behind me I feel as though I can continue on my regular blog posting and get caught back up with all of you. I must apologize for my lack of reading and commenting as I was being pulled in several directions there for a few weeks. I'm happy to be...

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How to Organize a 5K

I had a few folks ask me about this and I suppose I could have used a little "how to" myself. So here is my version of "How to Organize a 5K." First and foremost, choose your location. The Lazy Runner and I found out the hard way that even once you decide on your...

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I’m a race director

I’m a race director

Guess what? I'm officially a race director. Can you believe it? My 5K went off without any major hitches (or at least anything that created a huge stir) and I'm so relieved. I basically didn't sleep from Friday to Saturday because I was so all consumed by thoughts of...

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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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