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One week away …
A week from now I will be picking up my race packet and settling into my hotel room for the evening before getting up before the crack of dawn to run 26.2 miles. And believe it or not, I’m not nervous at all. That’s not to say that won’t change. But as of right now,…
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When reality meets reality TV
First, the semantics: Colleen’s boss and good friend is Kelly. Kelly is Kendra’s mom. And Kendra is a star of the brand-new season of “The Bad Girls Club” on Oxygen. —- As you’ve probably guessed by the 3 degrees of separation, I’m not super-good friends with Kendra. But I have met her a couple of…
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Running and socializing at the same time?
Why did it not occur to me before that this would be the coolest thing ever? I went out to TrySports last night for one of their group runs. I can tell you right now why I was always hesitant to do group runs before – performance anxiety. I know that sounds weird. Especially as…
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The best voicemail I ever got
Was recorded at 3 a.m. today. My good friend Michael came up with a really great Christmas present idea, which he blogged about here. The gist is this: For Christmas presents this year, he would serenade his friend via phone. All we had to do is tell him what time to call and what day,…
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I won! I won! I won!
50,000 words in 30 days. 37,000 words since Tuesday. Second time winning National Novel Writing Month. It is no less exciting the second time around!
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Ready for the calorie burn? Bring it on, holiday food!
Here are some more details of the TrySports calorie burn contest that I first mentioned here. Come meet me there tomorrow night! This is from their weekly newsletter: Tuesday/Thursday TryRunning group Holiday Calorie Burn Contest! Are you still trying to digest all the Thanksgiving food you ate? Don’t let the holiday season pack on those…
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The shortest blog post I’ve ever written (but there’s a good reason!)
National Novel Writing Month update: 34,885 words. I have less than 16,000 to write by Monday, and I am determined to “win” this year. For the record, I am happy with how the book is going, too – it may even be better than last year’s book! Ok, back to writing my novel …
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Thank you.
Today I am about to run 4 miles (I love tapering!) in my preparation to run 26.2 in a couple of weeks. I will attempt to write 7,000 words in a last-ditch effort to write a novel for this year’s National Novel Writing Month. I made marathon training a higher priority this year than novel…
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Running 20 miles does not make one a party animal
So, it’s Tuesday, and I ran 20 miles on Saturday. Why am I just now writing about it? Because I’m just now recovered! Ok, that’s not really true. I’ve been busy with work and an out-of-town friend visiting also, but I have been on a total runner’s high since that run and I am so…
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The night our beers didn’t catch on fire
So Crystal emailed me this morning and said she wanted to know more about my Twitter update from last night – so here goes! We were at the Epicentre in Charlotte enjoying some beers and waiting for our food to come, when the fire alarm started going off. Everybody out … Those of you unfamiliar…