I am linking up again for the Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah. This was week 8 of the Team Wilpers Summer Run Challenge 2023 and it concluded – just like it started – with another 20 min distance test, the runner’s equivalent of the FTP test for cycling...
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Five Things Friday: just five things I’m thinking about or things that made my week, or things that I otherwise feel like sharing. I confess that I did an insane amount of mindless scrolling in the evenings this week (tell me it’s not just me!) and I didn’t like how...
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PROUD | of Jon for doing the Davis Moo-nlight 5k walk with me. I joke that I won’t leave the house for a 5k anymore, but we’re all at different points in our journey (and we all started somewhere!) and it doesn’t diminish the fact that participating in an official...
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I am linking up again for the Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah. Another really exciting week! I hit another milestone with Tanja on the bike, and I spent a few days at a friend’s house and got to try her Peloton tread. Cue my excitement! I also participated...
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Five Things Friday: just five things I’m thinking about or things that made my week, or things that I otherwise feel like sharing. I’ve been spending a few days in the Bay Area with my friend Susi this week (the perks of remote work), and it’s been lovely to escape...
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Last weekend, Jon and I finally participated in the Davis Moo-nlight Run again. You might recall that we’ve done the 5K before in 2019. I had been so thrilled at the time that I had convinced Jon to do this with me, hoping to turn him on to (shorter) races....
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Around the Interwebs Are you on Threads? The case against travel. Well, that’s a thought-provoking essay. Where do you stand? An unexpected way to get your home organized. Have you heard about the 5S Method? How do you feel about engagement rings? (I neither had a proposal, nor a real...
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I am linking up again for the Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah. Whee, what a week. Team Wilpers training was ramping up again with some spicy interval runs, and so were the temperatures. We were heating up to a toasty 110F/44C by Saturday. I had a race on...
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Five Things Friday: just five things I’m thinking about or things that made my week, or things that I otherwise feel like sharing. I completely forgot to mention that I joined a virtual book club this month to re-read an American classic, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Bettie Smith. ...
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photo credit: @happpyal via Unsplash Yes, there are more “Ask San Anything” questions that you submitted during NaBloPoMo. I can’t believe it’s been taking me so long to answer them, but I promise I’ll get to all of them eventually. Good thing that these posts are always fun to write and read, amirite?! So,...
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