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Thankful Thursday: The Sick Edition

by Beth Shaw | Sep 1, 2011 | 15 Comments

Alright, so yesterday I was home sick, but today I'm feeling much better. And guess what? I learned a lot of useful things while staying home. Ok, not really useful but at least worth a Thankful Thursday post about things to do while at home sick. Oh and guess what?...

Stuck in the middle

by Beth Shaw | Aug 31, 2011 | 14 Comments

I stayed home from work today. I have a major chest cold and it feels as though as 300 lb gorilla is sitting on me. While I can breathe, I have read that running with a chest cold is a no-no so here I sit. Stuck in the middle of being able to run and not being able to...

Massage benefits

by Beth Shaw | Aug 30, 2011 | 13 Comments

I have decided that me and massages are going to be besties. Lately, I've really seen and felt the benefits of the deep tissue massage. And so of course, I started googling around to see what the experts say about massage. Not surprisingly, massage has a TON of...

Ear worms

by Beth Shaw | Aug 29, 2011 | 14 Comments

Ah Monday. Back to the grind. And hopefully back to not being such a slacker-ass-slacker. I seem to have shaken some of it off and got in my long run on Saturday. The run was gonna be a 12 miler (take that leftover vacation dieting!) but due to the humidity and...

Slacker

by Beth Shaw | Aug 26, 2011 | 9 Comments

Um, yeah. I've been a total slacker this week. I've slacked on the blog (SEE: missing Thankful Thursday post) and I've slacked on the running and swimming and let's not even talk about the biking. Dolly is looking dusty. Work has been so bananas that I haven't taken a...

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

by Beth Shaw | Aug 24, 2011 | 6 Comments

A corn cookbook. Yuck. I don't like corn. Look at that Asheville sky. Beautiful. I hope he has his license. Love the slide to unlock sticker.

Back to reality

by Beth Shaw | Aug 22, 2011 | 10 Comments

I'm back in Florida and feeling slightly bloated from my Asheville eat-fest. My sister and I went to Asheville as a girl's trip and had a total blast. A person could very easily fall in love with Western North Carolina because it's absolutely beautiful. To me,...

Thankful Thursday

by Beth Shaw | Aug 18, 2011 | 15 Comments

I have this here post on "auto-publish" so right about now I'm doing this: While you are doing this: Heh. That's right. I'm officially on vacation. I couldn't leave you people all grumpy at your desks without a Thankful Thursday right? It's really no surprise that...

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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...

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by Beth Shaw | December 18, 2023 | d.r. blog | 0 Comments

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by Beth Shaw | January 22, 2023 | d.r. blog | 0 Comments

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...

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by Beth Shaw | January 1, 2023 | d.r. blog | 0 Comments

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...

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by Beth Shaw | December 15, 2022 | d.r. blog | 0 Comments

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...