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December 29, 2011

Goals and resolutions and year-end recaps are running wild all over the Internet right now. And I don’t know why this is especially significant to me this year as it’s been regular practice since I started blogging, since I started even reading blogs. But having never been a resolutions person at the start of a [...]

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The Nice List

December 19, 2011

The above image is circulating around Facebook lately, and as with most things like this, these proclamations created by one but used by others, you can’t help but see it. And it is usually the used by others part that annoys me most, because I think the message gets a little lost, a little reinterpreted [...]

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Ambition is dumb, kinda

December 13, 2011

At some point in the last couple years I’ve come to admit something that, while always true about me, I’d never been willing to admit before: I am not overly ambitious. Wait. Forget that. The full truth is, I am not ambitious. Period. I think in my childhood (hello, 1980s) it became very popular to [...]

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Losing count

December 8, 2011

At about 1:30 AM on Tuesday I fell face first on my bed after a long day of travel that included a ferry ride, a taxi ride, two flights totaling over seven hours of flying time, and one ninety minute drive home from the airport. Yes, I was on my favorite island again, and although [...]

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Where everybody knows your name

November 26, 2011

I am sure I’ve mentioned it before, but I live in the city I grew up in. Not the next city over, not the next county, but the city. Having only left for college (only to return when I got tired of bouncing around schools) and travel, I sometimes get strange reactions from people. Somehow [...]

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No Ideal

November 14, 2011

When I think about training for races again, my brain consistently reminds me of reasons it will not be ideal. And the cause of most of these reasons is an unchangeable fact: I am older. My body is not the same as it was at twenty-five. How can it be ideal when I’ve put it [...]

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Mo’ miles, mo’ problems

November 3, 2011

Running. I still do that. I still run for fun, and I still run a race now and then. I haven’t trained for a “big” race in a long, long time. But then again, there was a time when a 10K was big to this girl, and even if everyone and their dog are doing [...]

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