My alarm goes off at 6:15 a.m. and I hit the snooze button (well, actually I “lift up” my phone and then put it down again, which is the equivalent of a snooze button for the Sleep Cycle App that I use to track my sleep and as my alarm)....
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And the training continues. Usually, I’d take a week off from running after a race, but because the 20-miler last weekend was part of the training and only a “test race” for the main event, training continued this week. I was pretty tired on Monday and a little sore, so...
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Photo by Georgia de Lotz on Unsplash Do you ever think about the little things in your day-to-day life that make your day juuust a little better? For me, some of those things are: A hot cup of coffee in a pretty mug. Honestly, isn’t that the best thing in the morning? The...
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Around the Interwebs Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences. If only it were funny. I know this is also satire, but I don’t know if we should laugh or cry. I Am a Lady, and Donald Tr*mp...
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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. The next few weeks will be busy. My mother-in-law will be visiting for a long weekend. We contemplated going down to SoCal for Thanksgiving, but since Thanksgiving...
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After yesterday’s post, I thought it would be a good time to lighten things up a bit. If you’ve been around here for a while, you might know that I organized a little gift exchange every holiday season for the last few years. Maybe you’ve secretly waited for this post...
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photo credit: @gaellemarcel via Unsplash It’s been a week. Literally and figuratively. I am writing straight from the heart today. I honestly have not completely processed the outcome of the election. I keep thinking to myself “How is that possible? Why is Tr*mp allowed to be president again? How was he allowed to...
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On Sunday, I ran the Run the Parkway 20-miler, the official training race of the CIM (California International Marathon). The pacers were going to run the full 20-mile distance at the same pace as they would run the marathon at CIM, so we could practice our goal pace. I was...
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photo credit: @cloudett via Unsplash 1. I was so happy that today was a federal holiday and I had the day off. I slept in late and had a very lazy day. After a week of work travel and my race yesterday, I needed that. I was woken up by...
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This week’s stats: Running: 31.4 miStrength: 30 minYoga/Pilates/Barre: 50 minWarm up/Stretching: 30 minMeditation: 55 min I am linking up again for the Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah. I was gone on a work trip from Tuesday to Friday this week and I was about to ask my coach again to rearrange my...
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