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Day 17: I Vastly Underestimated the Impact

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I still keep expecting to wake up and realize that yesterday was a dream, that I didn’t really complete an entire half-marathon. And then I move, and my legs remind me that it definitely happened, and that this is actually, totally, really my very real life. How weird is this? I am a bit stunned still. Which I guess makes sense… Read more »

Day 16: I Did It!

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Start time: 8:00 a.m. Duration: 2:57:28 Overall average: 13:33 Fastest mile: 10:47 I still can’t believe this is real. I keep thinking I will wake up and find it was all a dream. But then I feel the weight of this gorgeous thing in my hands, and I know it really happened.   I really did it. I really finished… Read more »

Day 15: Three… Two… One… BLASTOFF

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It is less than 12 hours until my half-marathon and I am slightly freaking out. I can’t stop thinking about all the water I didn’t drink, all the sleep I didn’t get, all the miles I didn’t push myself — and I can’t find my GU packets that I bought specifically for the race and put Somewhere I Can’t Possible… Read more »

Day 6: Good Luck Finding a Pool Noodle the Week After Halloween

We recently obtained two kayaks. Wait. That sounds like we stole them. We did not in fact steal them. Jesse traded work for partial payment in the form of kayaks. Any any rate, we have these kayaks. They are lying on the ground in our yard. Behind our big fence. Protected by our big dog. So don’t steal my kayaks. AT… Read more »

Day 1: What if 30 Days Could Change Everything?

I keep hearing the advice “Life’s easy when you live it the hard way and hard if you live it the easy way.” Every time I hear it, I write it down. And today, at the Herbalife Central Florida STS, the speaker was looking right at me when he said this exact phrase. I may live a relatively easy life —… Read more »