My daughter loved having her last race report up on my blog, so she will be writing up a full report for yesterday’s walk . I just wanted to say a few words and share some pictures. Originally just my daughter and I were going to participate, but the whole family [...]
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The gym I go to has two different kinds of indoor cycling classes. I did not realize that RPM was so different until I attended. RPM is a pre-choreographed cycling class based on outdoor riding. The instructors are given a program and must memorize and teach it exactly as written. At first the RPM [...]
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So I woke up this morning and thought I would go out for an easy recovery run. That was NOT a good idea. Even though I took Advil this morning, my hip/adductor was huuurrting and was stiff. I went about a quarter of a mile and then just turned back. The pain was intense and [...]
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Today, I ran with Runnrgrl and we had a blast. Honestly I was a little nervous because I am quite shy and she is a much faster runner than I am. The run started off a little late because I was waiting in the lobby at the wrong hotel. I will blame my husband, we [...]
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I officially registered for the Rock N Roll San Antonio Marathon. It is both exciting and a little scary. Ahh. It isn’t until November but that is not so far away. I need to start training in July and to answer your question Nicole, I have no idea what training plan I am going to [...]
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My daughter and I will be participating in the 2009 Arthritis Walk here in Austin. We will be walking as part of Team Ashley. Ashley is one of my daughter’s little friends. She has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and she is a little trooper. Many days she is in so much pain she can not walk, [...]
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Ran with my husband again today and was I ever surprised. Shocked that I could run at my normal speed again and that my husband didn’t have a hard time keeping up, in fact he was setting the pace for the last 2 miles. We started off a little slow and picked it up a [...]
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So I gave in and went to the doc. He checked me out. Everything is okay, no major problems, my hips are a little tight/stiff and my adductors are weak. So he gave me some strength exercises to do and also some stretches. He told me to take 2 advil with every meal for the [...]
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My daughter had to write about something challenging she completed, she chose running the Purple Stride 5k as her topic . I thought it was so cute, I wanted to share it. Enjoy! When I Ran a 5k I was so excited! I was going to run the Purple Stride 5k with my mom! 5 [...]
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Bit of a role reversal on my run with my husband on Tuesday. We started running and the hip pain was so bad I almost started crying. Two reasons I kept going: 1) the pain is always the worst at the beginning unless I’ve done something before my run to warm up 2) first half [...]
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