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So Ridiculous Over The Top and Awesome and Amazing!! OK, so I have to admit, I’m being goaded into writing this post by the very persuasive ladies over at http://www.disbroads.com/. And it happened almost two years ago, so I may not get every detail right. But it’s how I remember it in my mind, and …
This is Deanna. Sometimes you meet someone and you know that you have to hear their story. I met a woman like that and asked her to please write her story because I knew others needed to hear it. This is the email she sent me yesterday. Dear Jen, I tell people about you all …
So I realize some of you – the non-planners, the spur of the moment spontaneous crazy people, those to whom the last minute is normal – will think that deciding to do a race only five weeks out is . . .NORMAL. But for me? The planner? The one who books her hotel 14 months …
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about women and our friendships. I teach a class on relationships for our church, and when doing the research I came across a study that women diagnosed with cancer who have a close circle of friends are 4 TIMES less likely to die than women who say …
Despite some definite strangeness that I will go into later, today was an amazing race and so so much fun!! Although the course was awesome, the homes along the way magnificent and the post race party to die for, the REAL STAR of the day was the weather. It was one of those seriously perfect …
So now that the fall racing season is upon us, I KNOW some of you are running your first race EVER very soon. So my first word to you is: HOLY SMOKES, LOOK AT YOU! Do you have any idea how few people in the world have the courage and the strength and the discipline …
Sorry. That title was just ridiculous. But I came home sick from work today and am firmly planted on my couch with a head cold. It’s not fatal and I’m hitting the Netty pot, the spinach/grapefruit/apple juice and the green tea pretty hard so I’m expecting a full recovery within 24 hours. Well, I BETTER …
So you think you want to do this, huh? Well, it’s awesome. And you really should. I clearly LOVE RunDisney and their races, but as you’re planning for your training, your hydration, your nutrition and your fabulous costume or running outfit and tiara, there’s something else you need to be planning for. Namely . . …
Tim, Darcie, me, Lynn, Selma and Alan on the morning of the half! As Julie Andrews said, you should start at the very beginning because that’s a very good place to start. So here’s part one, part two, and part three of what’s turned into rather an epic week of blogging (for me, anyway). But …