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20 February 2012 ~ 11 Comments

Week in Re/Preview (NOT!)

I seriously contemplated posting a week-in-preview, trying to plot out a course of exercise for the week… but then I got smart and decided against it. There were wonderful comments on my post about running during the first trimester and the general consensus was to do what feels right for me.  So if I make myself some [...]

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17 February 2012 ~ 10 Comments

First Trimester Running

Running during my first trimester of pregnancy has been… interesting to put it mildly and downright difficult to be straightforward. On December 17 I ran a 5K. [Come Run With Santa 5K]  I was still running pretty regularly at that time.  I had just found out a few days before that race that I was [...]

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20 January 2012 ~ 8 Comments

What I’m Not – What I Am

Lately I’ve been inundated with marketing pitches from people asking me to promote their products or interview an author on this site. I like reviewing products… I like reading/reviewing books. But they have to be subject-relevant. And most of these pitches are centered around one thing… Weight loss. I am NOT a weight loss blogger. [...]

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12 January 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Six Steps to Stronger Thighs

Running requires all of the muscles in your legs to be firing properly… a weakness or imbalance in one area can cause injury or pain in another.  The bummer of all this is that just running on its own, is NOT going to be enough to build that strength, you’ve gotta do the work beyond [...]

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01 January 2012 ~ 4 Comments

Rolling Over to 2012

2011 was definitely a weird year for my running… it didn’t pan out at all how I would have planned or imagined.  All year I felt like I kept getting slower, more sluggish.  I got a stress fracture that took me out for a couple of months which was hard at the time, but looking [...]

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29 December 2011 ~ 8 Comments

Running with UTI

For Christmas I got a great gift… well, it was actually one of those gifts that you get the day before Christmas.  No, not new pajamas…. On Christmas Eve morning I woke up with a horrible burning sensation while peeing and an off smell.  (not an asparagus pee smell.)  Walking from room to room kind [...]

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