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26 Nov 2017: Third time around

Today was one of my best running days of the last few months.  I didn’t get started very early, but luckily it wasn’t too hot outside.  I drove over to Memorial Park intending to take it easy and just get a 3 mile run in. I felt good when I started and figured that I would probably stop 1/2 way…

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12 Nov 2017: One year later…déjà vu

I can’t believe its been a year since I last posted on this blog.  Life has certainly gotten away from me.   In March I took up Yoga and have been going around 3x week since then.  It was challenging at first but I’m slowly getting used to it and I’m definitely more flexible now.   I can do a decent headstand…

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22 Oct 2016: One year anniversary celebration!

Just one year ago I started my running adventure.  On 21 Oct 2015, I bought my new running shoes and took my first run.  I alternated 15 seconds of running with 1 minute of walking.  I don’t actually know how far that I went, but my workout was 34 minutes using the Zombies 5k app. Now 1 year later, I’ve…

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16 Oct 2016: Ten mile weekend!

Today I ran with my friend Shelley at Memorial Park.  I have never run with her before and frankly, I’m lucky that she wanted to run with me.  Shelley completed the Heights 5k run this summer in just less than 30 minutes, while my time was over 40 minutes! But she said that she didn’t mind running slowly and we…

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17 August 2016: Definitely still summer out there

Summers in Houston are not for the faint-hearted.  We had a week of 100 degree days, 90+ percent humidity and generally miserably hot weather.  Now the weather has turned to rain, rain and more rain.  How is one supposed to keep running in this type of weather? The good news is that I’ve made it to the last 2 weeks…

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22 Jun 2016: New goals to the end of the year

Now that I’ve run the Tinkerbell 10k and the NYRR mini-10k, I do not have any new races on the horizon.  That got me thinking about new running goals.  Certainly I would like to learn how to run faster and longer without stopping.  The hard part is how do I do that?  Almost everything that I’ve read says that I…

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6/4/2016: Heights 5k Race recap

Rain, rain go away….come again another day! It was wet and rainy on Saturday morning for the Heights “Run the BLVD” 5k!  I arrived around 6:45am just in time to be in the photos taken by Coach Joan of our 9 to 5 group.  Even with the bad weather, there was 20 of us!  Much of the core group and…

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