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Diabetic to Dietetics
This is me listening
March 21, 2014
Running
When the running community tells you don’t run, you don’t run. Our community is a pretty hardcore community. We run in all weather, super hot, humid temperatures, torrential downpours, snow,…
Singing Lamb Chops
March 18, 2014
Training
“This is the cold that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend, some people started sneezing, and I caught their ugly germs, and they’ll continue infecting me…
Giveaway: The Bloody Diabetic
March 16, 2014
Diabetes
So. You know my fingers. My heavily callused fingers. My heavily callused fingers that became that way from decades of pricking them with a sharp needle. My heavily callused fingers…
Confidence. Belief. Self Efficacy.
March 10, 2014
Running
You can’t control the uncontrollable, so don’t waste tears trying. That was probably the most valuable piece of information I walked away with following the running symposium I attended this…
18 months: too fast
March 4, 2014
Uncategorized
(I’m a few days late with this post.) Dear Little Ring, 18 months, how has that happened. I swear, it’s as though I blinked and you went from a crying,…
Race Report: All about the hot chocolate
March 2, 2014
Diabetes
I didn’t want to come at you guys today with excuses, I wanted to be the Bionic Woman, the woman who could do anything no matter what is trying to…
Call of the bad belly
February 26, 2014
Running
Sometimes it’s cheese, but never yogurt. Sometimes it’s bread, but never peanut butter. Sometimes it’s chocolate ice cream, but never Swiss chocolate. Sometimes it’s carrots, but never cucumbers. Always, it’s…
For shame, Mr. Insulin Pump, for shame
February 10, 2014
Diabetes
I have a fairly high tolerance for pain – I take needles regularly, I prick my finger multiple times a day, when I broke my wrist, I was in denial,…
Watermelon head is back!
February 7, 2014
Diabetes
My fame has risen once again. Seriously people, my head is soon gonna be the size of a watermelon again (not that I’m complaining 😉 ) Brother-sister rivalry. Remember my…
What was I thinking???
February 6, 2014
Running
I don’t like the same-old, same-old running routes. I don’t like out-and-back running routes. I don’t like running in temperatures below zero. But more than any of that, I do…
Strength training, toddler style
February 3, 2014
Training
Dear Little Ring, Remember those days when you were just a lump? The days when you’d lie there keeping mama company for her strength training? The days when all you…
Goosebumps
January 31, 2014
Running
Today, there were goosebumps – good and bad. On a day I found out three little boys lost their mama to cancer (a fellow runner and friend to so many…