Moss Park Olympic Tri Race Report

Moss Park Olympic Tri Race Report

The above photo is me and Cay-See before the start of the race. She and I were the only two folks I knew doing this "Olympic" distance triathlon in Moss Park in Orlando, FL. We had headed over Saturday in the late afternoon and had dinner at one of my most favorite...

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Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday

Happy Thursday friends! You know what I love about a blog? You can post ridiculous videos of yourself looking completely BUSTED after a mile long swim in the ocean! And you can totally brag about living in Florida and driving over the super cool Sunshine Skyway...

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Midnight 10K Race Report

Midnight 10K Race Report

Let me start by saying Happy 4th of July! I hope you all are enjoying sparklers safely and some delicious summertime treats. I had Waffle House. Heh. Let's see, I signed up for a midnight 10K cause it seemed like a good idea at the time. This was until I remembered...

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Friday WTF

I missed Wordless Wednesday cause I:A. Don't take as many pictures as I shouldB. Really like to talk a lotC. Am lazy, a recurring themeSince I missed that funky alliterative Wednesday post I thought I'd do a Friday WTF. As in what the eff is wrong with people? Please...

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Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday

I must confess that I am not a very good cook. I can follow a recipe and I can make a delicious trifle like nobody's business, but I just don't know how to "whip" things up. I prefer to bake, but in general I am A-OK with takeout, with the exception of breakfast which...

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Greedy

I believe in karma. I also believe that my version is often instantaneous. For example, I'll call someone dumb and then immediately stub my toe. Or I'll chuckle at someone falling and I'll run right into a door jam. It's true. I am karma's favorite friend. Don't be...

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Race addict and etc

Upon looking at my calendar yesterday, I realized that I have registered for a race almost every single weekend in July. Thankfully July has five weekends or I definitely would have had a race every weekend. Hmm. What can I do the 24th and 25th? Kidding. Kinda.I...

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Come and knock on our door

Come and knock on our door

Since I put Ironman on bucket list I figured why wait? I'll just go ahead and do the whole shebang this year. In September.GOTCHA!I'm crazy, but I ain't nuts.But what I did sign up for is pretty damn exciting and has the word IRONMAN in it. I'm doing the 1/2 Ironman...

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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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