Thankful Thursday & Free Shoe Winner!

Thank you all so much for entering the amazing free shoe give away! And thanks to onlineshoes.com for allowing me to have this most amazing give away. I added up over 80 total entries (almost all of you went for the three points) and without further ado the winner,...

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Bye, bye July

Bye, bye July

Happy Hump Day! First things first. It's your last chance to enter to win FREE New Balance running shoes. Click HERE to go enter. Wait! Finish reading this post first, then go enter.Since it's race week again, I'm eating weird and feeling weird. I typically feel a...

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Tri-aversary

Saturday marks my "tri-aversary." This is also known as the anniversary of my first triathlon. I'm once again signed up for the Top Gun Sprint Triathlon held at lovely Ft de Soto beach. I remember last year as my first ever triathlon. I was pantsing my poop about this...

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Thankful Thursday

Oh-em-gee. It's Thursday already? Actually, I'm kidding. I've been dying for Thursday to arrive cause it's been "crunch" week at work and I'm again SO looking forward to the weekend. Aren't you?Before I get all thankful on your butts, I must remind you all to head...

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FREE SHOES!

I have recently been reunited with my New Balance running shoes. While I enjoyed the Pearl Izumi's I didn't really LOOOOOVE them, the way I've loved the previous New Balance models I've worn. I know everyone has a go-to brand and I usually skip around, but I typically...

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Run thru Hell 5K Race Wee-Port

Run thru Hell 5K Race Wee-Port

Happy Monday! I'm calling this a wee-port cause it's a little one.Yesterday was the 5K I run almost every summer, the Run thru Hell. It's considered a cross country race because there is some trail and some pavement and it's the Run Thru Hell cause there is LOTS of...

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Coconut Water Products Review

I was recently given the opportunity try Phenom Coconut Water. Since these coconut water products have been all the rage lately, I thought, why not? I've had it before and while I don't love the taste of the plain I figured these flavored ones could be pretty...

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Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday

It's Thursday and I feel like this week has just been insane! It started out great since I was feeling the after race glow and blog love, but then it turned into a monster of a work week.With deadlines looming and emails out the wazoo it's no wonder that I'm looking...

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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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