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What’s Next?
Since you now know that I am breaking up with triathlon, you may be wondering, “What’s Next?”. Isn’t this the first question anyone asks after you train for and complete a big goal race?! I started...
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Taking Recovery Seriously
First, I hope no one is here because you think I am going to actually tell you “How to Recover from an Endurance Event.” Because I am not. I am not an expert at anything, so you won’t see many of those...
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A Change in Plans
As you all know, only hours after I posted my updated race schedule and talked about how excited I was to go to NYC this weekend, the city was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. With all of the hurricane...
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Woofstock 2012
After Saturday’s 5k, next on the fill-the-weekend-with-fun agenda was Woofstock. It was a fundraiser for our local Humane Society that included “brews, bands and barks”. We took Walter and Ernie and...
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TXU Turkey Trot 10k
Hellloooo from Houston! And Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying a day with family, friends or loved ones and doing whatever makes you happiest! Let’s talk about the Turkey Trot!...
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A Follow-Up Post…
You know what I think is one of the most annoying things that people do on a blog? Write posts with vague references to “the most amazing thing ever…that I can’t share yet” or “some really difficult...
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Thursday Thoughts III
Happy Almost-Friday! I don’t know about y’all, but my week is draaaagging by, but were almost there and in the meantime, I thought I would share some fun things from my week: I went trail running! In...
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Race Week “Don’ts”
You know what’s not ideal? A New Orleans-style boozefest, ahem, business trip in the days leading up to a PR-attempt race. While it was a really great trip, from both a business perspective and the...
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Kiawah Island Half Marathon
If you would have asked me when I signed up for this race what my goals were, I would have told you with confidence that I could PR and possibly break 1:40:00. Although I was cutting speedwork out of...
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Relaying…Again!
Once upon a time, relatively early in my running life, I heard about these crazy things called long distance relays. I don’t remember who told me or where I learned about them, but I was intrigued. I...
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2012 Goals in Review
Happy 2013!! I have finally rejoined the real world after a fantastic couple of weeks of vacation! I was on and off Twitter the last couple of weeks, but mostly was snowboarding, hanging with Brad and...
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Ragnar Florida Keys – The Lead-up
I am doing myself a favor and sharing a little of my 2-week holiday vacation as part of the “lead-up” to Ragnar. Mostly because I am lazy, but also because I don’t think the story of the relay would be...
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Ragnar Florida Keys – Leg #1
When we left off, Vishal had just picked Char and I up at our hotel and we headed to Publix to meet the rest of our team. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that yet another Nuun employee would be completely...
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Good News & Bad News
I am interrupting my Ragnar Recaps for a little update on things going on in my racing life and well, just life in general. Sometime last fall after B2B, I shared my upcoming race schedule for the...
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Ragnar Florida Keys – Leg #2
Thank you all for your thoughtful comments from my last post. I love how supportive this running/blogging community can be and I really appreciate it. Are you ready for more Ragnar? When we left off, I...
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Ragnar Florida Keys – Leg #3 & Finish
Over two weeks later and I am finally ready to wrap up the relay posts. Nothing like a little timely blogging After slogging through leg #2, I was more than happy to change out of my dripping wet...
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All Kinds of Random
Happy Friday! Despite being out of the office on Monday and Tuesday, this week really seemed to drag, but, alas, I made it! Before I head straight for a glass of wine, I wanted to share a few things...
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12 Reasons I am a Morning Runner
I was thinking last week about why I endure absurdly early alarm clocks and pre-dawn miles to get my training in. Despite how hard it is to pull myself out of a warm bed sometimes, my answer to the...
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Travel Crazy
The past week has been a chaotic mix of travel, work, running and good food (and lots of it). Travel… If you follow me on Twitter, this will look familiar, but basically the last 9 days have looked...
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Thoughts from Recovery Week
Last week I hit my current highest mileage ever, with just over 53 miles. Physically, for the most part, my legs and body are feeling strong. I did feel slightly beat-up in the last couple of miles of...
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