Category: Fitness
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I don’t love shoes like most girls
I mean, I like shoes, don’t get me wrong. But love them? When Jeff first organized our closet he gave me an entire cubby for my shoes. I was in heaven! Organized all my shoes and gave them their own little spot. Then I showed Colleen the closet and she said, “Is that all your…
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My new ride
What a better way to be woken up on a Sunday morning than a phone call from Kevin: “I’m at the REI yard sale. Are you coming?” Actually, that wasn’t the best part. I did get up and grab a shower and start getting ready, and then I got another phone call from him: “Get…
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I am getting stronger
I am near the end of week 7 of marathon training, and I haven’t been writing too much about how the training itself is going. Why is that? Well, because it seems as if marathon training is easier than my running schedule was prior to this. The week before training began I ran 47 miles.…
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On sidewalk etiquette
Last I checked, sidewalks were for pedestrians. Did I miss some new ordinance that makes them for things like trash cans and cars and scooters and bikes and toys? As someone who actually uses the sidewalks for what they are intended, let me offer some suggestions/requests: 1. If you must put your trash bin on…
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No idle hands at this house
This weekend, in pictures and thoughts: The run: I didn’t take pictures of everything, of course. I didn’t photograph me waking up at 4:30 a.m. just to get my run in because I knew I had a busy day ahead. I was home before the sun came up, so it would have been a picture…
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It’s not enough to run …
But I have to tell people about it. My reason is because if I slack off, I want people to call me on it! And it makes me want to run just so I can have something to log. I’ve been tracking my runs at Map My Run for about a year now. They have…
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Help me be clever
Kevin, Jenny, Chuck and I are talking about running the 2010 Cooper River Bridge Run together. This is so special to me as I have fond memories of my first and only bridge run, with Jenny, in 2008. (Want to see how far Kevin has come? Check out his comment on that post!) I’m going…
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The strength to keep going
This was not my race to run, and when I approached the team van near the end of it and saw the physical pain written all over their faces – I was both relieved and jealous I hadn’t been a part of it. This race falls into the category of “insane.” When I asked veteran…
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Overweight people at the gym
I mentioned yesterday that I could blog on this topic, and someone asked me if I was going to make fun of overweight people at the gym. Oh, heavens no! I hate that someone even thought that for a moment. The reason the topic has been on my mind lately is that I have had…
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And he didn’t want to be seen with me …
Chris’ comment on one of my posts recently reminded me of a story: Last year I was in Athens visiting Chris, and one of the things we had promised each other we would do during my week here was to have a crazy workout schedule. We made a pact that above all else, workouts would…