As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I started half marathon training again. I’ve been consistently running the last few months, but without any real purpose. I mean, I wanted to keep up mileage and – as I said at the beginning of the year somewhere – incorporate more cross-training,...
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Today I am linking up with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for the Friday Five 2.0 Linkup again and we’re sharing our best five running hacks. Running hacks are little tricks and tips that make the running experience better. Every runner has some of those. Here are my...
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On Sunday, I participated in another virtual 10k organized by VRC that benefits the National Park Foundation. You might recall, I also ran a 10k for the National Park Service’s birthday last year and I confessed my love for the National Parks and the outdoors. This time the race was...
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I’ve had my gym membership for years. I had phases where I went regularly, then other times, not so much. Whenever I fell off the bandwagon, I felt that I was wasting money. I contemplated quitting my membership many, many times. For some reason, a little nagging voice in my head...
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GAH! This last week, this first week of the Trump-presidency, has been tough on me again (emotionally). I am scared about the things he has already done, I am scared of what he might do, I am scared of the non-knowledge and pettiness that he displays on the daily. I mean,...
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As this year is coming to a close, I am linking up with Courtney from Eat, Pray, Run DC to take a look back on my year of running. It was a great year for me with only a couple of minor, totally neglectable injuries and lots of fun logging miles!...
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For the Friday Five 2.0 Linkup with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness, we’re sharing a gift guide for athletes. Some people are hard to shop for, but I dare to say that athletes are not those kinds of people. There is always something useful that you can get...
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Today is my 1-year race-run-niversary. One year ago, I ran my first official race, the 10k at the Berkeley Half-Marathon Event, with my friend Susi. Like I said (many times) before, I never thought I’d be the person that would sign up for a race, but on a whim, I...
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