Last year I ran my first 5k at the Fiesta Marathon. This year, I ran my last marathon at Fiesta. Last year, I had family, health and emotional issues. This year, I had family, health and emotional issues. But they were polar differences this year! I guess what I’m trying to say is that… Boy, what a difference a year makes!!!
A local newspaper told my story – written very well and with sensitivity. I had no idea so many people would connect with it and with me. It validated to me all that Momma saw and that my journey is obviously in its infancy. I am now a true believer in signs and feel that she and Sissy and Donny and Rodney and Jana and… (I have more angels than anyone else I know!) are all leading me to the right people and the right places. All those people were with me at Fiesta. It was the toughest run with the worst time I’ve ever had. But it will likely be my most memorable because of the people who were there for me. From the first hug in the morning to the Forrest Gump finish line experience and all the applause and car honks in between with encouragement… It was a wave of orange love to me. Thank you!!! Orange will crush cancer!
Seriously great write! As a novice cyclist now, I’m trying really hard to learn as much as I can in a short amount of time. Hanging out with the elite cyclists of my area has helped tremendously but this blog nailed it! I don’t care now which race LLS puts me in, I’m stoked!!!
Tomorrow I will be entering my first cycling race… A 6 hour time trial race around a 16 mile, triangular loop in Palm Springs, CA. This was a total last minute decision… My friend, Lauren, invited me to go down and do the race with her Thursday night… which meant not a whole lot of time to train lol.
Before I quit training for the Furnace Creek 508 in August, I was given some advice by ultra cyclist, Dani Grabol, on things she wish she knew before started cycling. Not so much training advice, but more so how to stay somewhat comfortable on the bike. I was reviewing it today, and thought that it would definitely be worth sharing so here we go…
Saddle Sores:
There are 3 types:
Ingrown Hairs/Blocked Hair Follicles: These look like little whiteheads or zits and can appear anywhere really. They are usually popable and…
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A few months ago, I blurted out (to an acquaintance whom I barely knew and shown above) that we should have a 5k Color Run down here in the Valley. It would be nothing but fun yet would intrigue the participants into asking what each color represented… and offer a way to promote a good cause, introduce a healthy lifestyle to those non-athletes (like I was) and remind hard-core athletes that fitness activity does not always have to be competitive but is based on something fun. It was short enough for all levels of the public to complete. It was not timed. There were no winners and no losers. Well, let me re-phrase… the race organizers (Mid Valley Events) sure won! BEST EVENT EVER!!! Fitness sure won! Everyone who participated seemed to have tons of fun! And the charities that participated sure won! Mimi’s Miles included!!! I don’t have enough fingers and toes plus fingers and toes of all our volunteers to count how many times runners came through our ORANGE station screaming out “I run for Mimi”. I must have cried at least 50 times just that morning!
Good tears.
I had received a text early that morning about how orange the sun rise was and again how orange the sun set was that day.
THE ENTIRE DAY BELONGED TO MY MOM. And it was all because of some really wonderful people who organized it, a fabulous community who participated in it and a great home town that made it all happen.
My heart overflows.
And so as I write this blog, this very moment, it was announced that a break though therapy has been discovered to help leukemia patients and it as funded by the races that I run!!!! Click here for that article
Better yet, click here to donate and help make a bigger difference!
When Jean Gearhart first spoke to me about the Triple Crown Challenge, she was right… I really did think she was nuts.
Maybe it was the other nutty people that I ran into all that week that had already or were planning on doing the same thing that kind of pushed me into thinking that if I had come this far… why not go all the way? So here I am.. thinking I’m nuts already so lets just confirm it! I’m going for the Triple Crowns in both the Rock & Roll Marathon series AND the L.L.S. (Team in Training) challenge!!! I haven’t had a crown since I was 23 years old. I think it’s time I went for it! What do you think?
So, what IS a Triple Crown? For the Rock N Roll Marathon series, it is running three marathons in ONE calendar year. For LLS, it is running a marathon, a triathlon and a 100-mile century ride all while fundraising for each event.
OK, don’t say it. I know… you think I’m nuts. It’s ok. I think so, too! But you know deep down inside that I wouldn’t do this for any other reason but this: BEAT CANCER
Here’s the Wildflower race from this year that I”ll be training for next year. WILDFLOWER
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