So I have been doing this running thing again for just over a year. I have come a LONG way! One year ago I could not run a quarter of a mile without stopping. Now, I can do a 5K with confidence. One year ago my blood pressure was on the ragged edge of needing [...]

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Running a 5K in the dog days of summer? Are you crazy? Well, yes, I guess we are. A few hundred of my favorite running buddies and I ran the Twilight 5K race on Saturday evening with a start temperature of about 88 degrees. It was hot, but the sun was going down, the course [...]

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Sports Bras are typically made for women with small chests – really, they are. And if you are a D cup or higher, good luck finding anything in your local stores that is going to be available, let alone fit!! I was at Dick’s Sporting Goods earlier this week and for some odd reason I [...]

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After finishing a 5K in April I asked my son – who ran a 5K for the first time that day – what he thought. His response was, when can we do that again? Well, the answer was today. We ran to support the local SPCA chapter and while it was a little hot and [...]

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When I did my first 5K in 20 years on Easter weekend, my 14 year old son ran it, too. It was his first organized 5K race and he loved it. Within in minutes of me finishing (about 15 minutes after he did), he asked when could we do another race? We have been looking [...]

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