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Acworth Women’s Triathlon

August 8th 2010

Pre race dinner: fresh pasta, grilled shrimp, fresh broccoli and light afredo sauce and a glass of wine before bed.
Breakfast: mini bagel with peanut butter, Dunkin Donuts coffee (from home) w/ creamer and one splenda

This was taken outside of transition at about 5:30 a.m.  We got up around 4a.m. left the house by [...]

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Tri2Remember – Jefferson

July 19th 2010

This weekend was my first official sprint triathlon of the season, but I had the unique experience to participate as a volunteer and sweep the course.   This race was one of a series to benefit Alzheimer’s research and I had no idea that every 70 second someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
There were probably 300 participants [...]

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Product Review: Bondi Band

July 6th 2010

Four years ago when I traveled through Europe for a month I came across a great headband for running or wear on a low-maintenance day.  I’d looked all over the place for them in the states, but didn’t come across another one until a few years ago when a running friend bought me a purple [...]

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PTRR Race Report

July 6th 2010

See me? I’d be surprised if you did considering I was one of 55,000 runners taking on the 41st annual Peachtree Road Race (PTRR) 10k – the largest in the world. And if Colorado tells you different they are shy by 1,000 people!
We were fortunate to have some cooler morning temps and the humidity was [...]

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Running w/ hubby

March 27th 2010

We’ve been running together the last three Saturdays and I’ve enjoyed our quality time together.  Hubby is training for his first 5K and I’ve got a few TRIs scheduled this Spring and Summer and will be running my first Peachtree.

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What’s been cool is each Saturday we’ve gone out it’s [...]

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