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Workout Roundup: Week of October 9, 2017
This week, I tried to focus on just taking it one day at a time. I knew it would be hard to get in many runs because of my schedule, which was obviously not ideal. With getting my foster son ready to...
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How to Triumphantly Train on your Treadmill
Recently, I was interviewed by NordicTrack as part of their series on treadmill running along with several other running bloggers! If you’ve been following my training over the last few months, you...
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Shoulder Injury Update – Another Surgery?
If you’ve been reading my blog for about five minutes, you know I’m not the world’s most medically lucky person. Since 2013, I’ve had a stomach surgery to fix a faulty stomach valve, back surgery, gall...
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Workout Roundup: Week of October 16, 2017
With my first full week back to normal since our foster son left, I was determined to make the most of my time this week and try and get back on my usual schedule! I was aiming for running 3-4 times...
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Workout Roundup: Week of October 23, 2017
This week brought my first race since the Wine Country Half Marathon back in July! It’s really hard to believe it has been that long, but I guess between my trip to the Tour du Mont Blanc and becoming...
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Post-Shoulder Surgery Update
Hello from the otherrr siiiiiddddeeee…of shoulder surgery! I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while and I’m really sorry if this post is a weird jumble of thoughts that don’t make any sense – you’ll see...
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Quick Life Update
I know, I know – it’s like I barely exist anymore. I’ve been blogging for over six years now, but have never gone this long between posts – not even when I’m traveling. If you follow me on social...
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Foster Care: Saying “No” to Accepting a Placement
One of the questions people ask AJ and I most frequently about foster care (besides “How can you handle giving them back?!”) is “Do you have any choice in whether or not a child is placed in your...
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I Promise I’m Still Alive
It almost seems impossible that it has been a month since I’ve written here, but trust me, that knowledge has not escaped me. I think about it all the time. There’s a strange combination of guilt,...
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Marathon, maybe?
As I mentioned in my last post, I have started running again since my shoulder surgery, and I’m starting to feel ready to train again. It’s been a bit of a start-and-stop process because I ran a few...
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Workout Wrap-Up: Week of January 8, 2018
Monday, January 8 – 4 mile run: School got cancelled today. Why? I have no idea. There was allegedly a “winter weather advisory,” yet my Weather Channel app said there was 0% of precipitation. That’s...
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Workout Wrap-Up: Week of January 15, 2018
Week 3 of marathon training is in the books! I love marathon training because it’s easy to take things just one week at a time. I never really look ahead for what is coming up next – just focus on the...
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Foster Care: In Good Times and in Bad
I know that I haven’t written very much about our current foster care placement. As I mentioned previously, the 8-year old boy that came to live with us a few days after Thanksgiving has come from much...
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Workout Wrap-Up: Week of January 22, 2018
I lived my best single parent life this week while AJ was out of town for work. And by “my best single parent life” I mean that I tried not to drink an entire bottle of wine every single day while he...
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Workout Wrap-Up: Week of January 29, 2018
Week 2 of living my “best” single parent life and…well…can someone tell AJ’s boss not to do this to me again? Especially not for two weeks? Great, thanks. Oh, and I hurt my foot this week, so...
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Workout Wrap-Up: Week of February 5, 2018
After last week’s shoe debacle and subsequent foot pain, I was unsure of how my week would go. With a race planned for Saturday and a foot that was still aching, I figured I would take it day by day....
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Double Life and Workout Wrap-Up: February 12-26, 2018
Why, hello there! I apologize if it seems a bit as though I have dropped off the face of the earth. Admittedly, I kind of did, for reasons that I will explain below. The good news is that my workout...
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Don’t Panic – I’m Still Training
Man, where does the time go? It’s like I blink and the week is over and it’s 10 pm on Sunday night and I realize that I haven’t posted anything about my training in weeks. It might lead you to believe...
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Choosing a Marathon and 20 Miles!
There’s no other way to slice it – this week was my biggest and best yet of this marathon training cycle! I ran my first 20 miler of the cycle and chose my race, too! Monday – 6 miles: After several...
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A Little Cutback and a Big March
It’s been a busy two weeks and we’re now into the final month of training before the New Jersey Marathon! In some ways, it feels like I’ve been training forever, but in others, it feels like I have...
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