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Diabetic to Dietetics
In the zone
August 31, 2010
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I may very well have learned a valuable lesson: moms know best … sometimes (Hey! I never said I wasn’t stubborn in my ways ;)) So my moms has been…
In search of the ‘lost’ runner
August 30, 2010
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Oh crap! Where’s Vanessa? About 11 km into yesterday’s run, my brain set off into panic mode. I’d seen Vanessa at the start of the run, I had even said…
Faster than a lightening Bolt
August 27, 2010
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Hey! So check out these numbers: 6.9, 6.5, 6.2, 6.4, 7.5, 6.9, 6.4, 6.8, 6.1, 6.4, 6.1, 6.6, 6.6… For most of you, they probably don’t mean a thing, but…
Short circuit
August 25, 2010
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For all you virginal eyes out there, I recommend you close them now. Because today, and quite possibly all the days forward, I stick my middle finger up in the…
Hello Heart, are you there?
August 24, 2010
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My name is Princess of Pavement, my sneakers kick the streets ass, and my running fashion rules the alleyways, but I have a confession. I am a hypochondriac. A major…
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
August 23, 2010
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It was almost one year ago, on Sept. 12, 2009, that my newly minted husband presented me with a small, turquoise box that had a perfectly wrapped white ribbon around…
Children of the corn
August 22, 2010
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I don’t care what anyone says, red wine is a brilliant training strategy! Case in point: About two months ago, Mario and I had dinner with friends on a Saturday…
Purple Pain
August 20, 2010
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Oh no! My toe is purple! Remember how I was complaining of swollen feet and bruised toes after Sunday’s 29 km run through the thick of the 34 degree temperature.…
She ain’t gonna take it anymore!
August 18, 2010
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Do you ever have one of those days where you just want to drop everything and scream, not whimper, not cry, but full-on scream? I’m talking standing in the middle…
Lunges and butt kicks and quinoa, oh my
August 17, 2010
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The other day a girlfriend of mine let me in on a lesson that was drilled into her at an early age from her dad. The four most important words…
Tour de Heat
August 16, 2010
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Okay seriously, where did the weekend go? I swear it’s like I blinked and it was gone. Probably had something to do with the fact that it was so chock-a-block…
A lunge butt kicking
August 14, 2010
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Do you know what it’s like to have a stomach that looks like the arm of a heroin addict? I do. Ever since going on the insulin pump, my belly…