Friday Fun with Red & B.o.B.

Friday Fun with Red & B.o.B.

Since Red and I are such good friends, it should be obvious that we have a lot in common. For example, we both love running. And reading. And sushi. And of course, blogging. A lot of our conversations actually revolve around blogging. And how completely nerdy we are...

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Thankful Thursday

I am really looking forward to marathon training and I'm not sure why because there are some things that really stink while training for the marathon. And there is some stuff that totally blows while running the marathon itself.Obviously, the finish is what makes it...

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

My nephews, Wesley and Bruiser. (Sorry the photo quality is not so great. These two hate to sit still unless sleeping and a cell phone camera isn't the best thing to use for Wordless Wednesday.)

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Obligatory Summer is Hot for Running Post

Obligatory Summer is Hot for Running Post

Guess what? It's official. It's the summer. And you know how I know? My calendar says so. Even though it's pretty much been summer here in Florida since oh, I dunno, April, the highfalutin calendar says today is actually the first day of summer so who am I to argue?...

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Weekend Rewind

Weekend Rewind

Hola mi amigos! I hope you all had lovely weekends. Mine was pure bliss. As I mentioned before I had a fairly low key weekend planned and this made me very excited because it's becoming a rare occurrence in my life. My roommate always says that he doesn't know anyone...

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A little funny for your Friday…

TGIF my peoples! I am super excited for the weekend and I don't really have anything planned! Yay! This weekend will be about getting some good, solid workouts in and just recuperating. I need to do some laundry and run a few errands since I've neglected that stuff...

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Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday

Today's Thankful Thursday brought to you by...All Over the Place Blogging. When you just can't find a good theme, go with All Over the Place Blogging©.Yeah, this image just felt right today. Heh.Anywho....I swear, thanks to this blog I keep meeting and setting up...

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Florida Challenge Triathlon Race Report

Florida Challenge Triathlon Race Report

Since, yet again, I have a lot to get through on this race report, I'm going to dive right in. Get your popcorn ready and settle in. On Saturday, the Tri division of my running group headed over to Clermont, FL, which is about 25 miles west of Orlando. If you google...

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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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