tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76953972026-04-28T04:37:47.104-04:00Inspire and be inspiredAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090547844237303579noreply@blogger.comBlogger670125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695397.post-41778735268409766442015-04-17T18:29:00.001-04:002015-04-17T18:29:16.096-04:00

AND what happens if I push publish?

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I am coming out of blog SILENCE! I've been, um, super busy, but that is a post for another day. Today I write to honor my BLOGGER friend Donna who I had the pleasure of meeting at Rev3 Maine last month. She is just as sweet and wonderful in person as she is on her blog Beating Limitations. I wish I hadn't been so crazy busy on a race weekend so that I could have spent some more time with her.

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Half marathon.. hmm. Doesn't seem like too much post Run Across America, but it's a different animal. Totally different animal!!! Run one mile at at time for 9 to 22 miles a day for 21 days is WAY different from running 13.1 miles straight. I signed up for this race well before I took off for the RAA and haven't really thought about it too much since. So as race day came I started to wonder

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As Rev3 Knoxville approaches I'm having flashbacks to my first time working with Rev3 .. well I volunteered there because I was injured and couldn't race. This was a huge turning point for me! New finish line looks amazing. Thanks Nick Donovan for the photo! I am stalking the progress of race set up on Facebook and texting the crew like a mad woman. So wish I could be down there working my

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Just about to cross the Key Bridge to the big finish. We are back. Back to reality! To say I am forever changed by this experience would be the understatement of a lifetime! I have tried numerous times to sit down and really get out what all of this meant to me. It was such a huge thing... in ways I least expected. There is a lot.. layers.. levels.. emotions. It may take me a few stabs to

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Awesome photo taken by Jay and made into an informational flyer by Jamie Bull. Today is Easter. We planned to take the day off, but will end up running at least 14 miles today as a group. We ended up cutting the day short yesterday when the light was gone, we were close to one of the first large-ish towns we've seen in the last two weeks and it started to rain. We got the BEST Easter gift

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Here is one of the RVs we will be riding in! Brian of UCF just picked it up! In FIVE days we set off on our amazing voyage across the country. I'm so excited to see the country this way. We will be traveling through parts I've never seen.. I'll be with some of my favorite people and will be meeting many other wonderful people. All along the way we will be spreading the word about The Ulman

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It's been a fairly stressful couple of weeks.. and my mental state has been a contributor. Boo. Then I see the above. Must remember! When I get sad, I stop being sad and be AWESOME instead. TRUE STORY! Okay.. so it isn't true, but I want it to be. It really should be that simple. Been trying to teach that to my kid... he has a hard time being awesome when he is being the OPPOSITE of

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Or is it just  me!? Training is going well. I run.. and then I run some more. I changed things up a while ago. I went from following an arbitrary plan that I had pieced together to trying (arbitrarily) to just increase my runs 1 mile a day each week. That is going okay. I am at 12 miles a day this week and so far I've run: Monday: 8 miles, Tues off, Wed 8 miles and have planned two 6 mile

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We are Three weeks away from push off on our big run across the country so..... I am presenting to you Three different items for RAFFLE. I will pull THREE different winners. So that increases your odds of winning SOMETHING three fold! (in case that was not obvious!) (Edited to add: Exciting news.. we got another item so this takes us to FOUR opportunities to win!! Thank you SpiBelt!) Edited

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They want their money back! A Sports Illustrated Model I AM NOT! Mostly I couldn't stop laughing long enough to get a picture... between that and my kids running in and out of the shot it was pretty histerical! A little friendly banter started amongst the Team Rev3 crew about how much money people would donate if I promised to expose myself post a picture of myself in our new shimmery Rev3

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What's the point of having a team without some smack talk and random challenges. (I may or may not have instigated this myself.) I received this beauty in the mail today. So many team mates are reporting amazing things happening with these suits... merciless comments on it's awesomeness and speed demon powers in the pool.. so why shouldn't it earn some coin for the Ulman Cancer Fund? Get

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If this young mother that is THE SAME AGE AS ME with small children can be away from her family fighting for her life for months at a time I CAN TAKE THREE WEEKS away from mine and fight to run across the country to raise awareness and funds for the ULMAN CANCER FUND to help Jessica and all of those like her! Jessica! I send a group family hug from my brood to yours! I will think of you often

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Rev3 was invited to the Ulman Cancer Fund Blue Jean Ball this weekend and I can't even express how thankful I am to have been included. The event was spectacular. If you are in the area I would highly recommend going next year! Amazing captions all around! I met so many inspiring people at this event. Survivors, family of survivors, people still in the throws of their battle and those

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Tagged.... I was. 11 is the magic number.... Here we go: 1. Post these rules 2. You must post 11 random things about yourself 3. Answer the questions set for you in their post 4. Create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer 5. Go to their blog and tell them you’ve tagged them 6. No stuff in the tagging section about you are tagged if you are reading this. You legitimately

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It's Recovery Week! Self imposed since I'm really just making this stuff up as I go along! I've been running.. a lot. Twice a day most days. I needed a break. My legs were heavy. My mind was heavy! So after talking to my rockin ultra friend Tara I decided it was time for a little RnR for both the legs and the mind. Lucky for me the weather improved greatly. What? I ran once this week so far..

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"When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen." - Vicki Robin (from Your Money or Your Life) To

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Heidi of BananaBuzzBomb did a vlog about the Power of the Visor and I wanted to follow suit! I can't believe that I actually did this because I'm really nervous about putting myself talking out there.. why? Who knows. In watching this my mouth seems numb on my right side still.. where I've had numerous shots of novicane over the last month.... or maybe that's just the way I always look. Go

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I've been just plugging along lately and a couple of things have really made me feel more like myself lately. I feel like I was a bit off last year and I couldn't put my finger on it. Well I think I had fallen away from some of my values. I had just put my head down and didn't concentrate on some things that have always been pretty important to me. My environmental stewardship and

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I know I said this year would be the Year of CRAPTASTIC.. or whatever I said..... BUT! You know I couldn't put that negative bullshit out there and just leaving it hanging in the air to grow into something that is indeed craptastic. I've been reading some truly amazing things (that I try not to let paralyze me from writing) lately that have got me in a great head space. A head space that is

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I teach Cycling at a local gym. It's so fun! I mentioned that Rev3 is Running Across America last week and a lot of people came up to me after class to tell me how amazing this was or to tell me that I am certifiably insane. :) They asked a lot of questions about the logistics and the training and that was that. This week after class I was on the floor doing some strength training and a couple

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1/5/2012 That pictue and one word pretty much sums up my LIFE right now. You can start calling me Forest (bc that's original and no one has said it yet).. or Gump. FG. The Gumpster? I've started breaking runs up. My longest run has been 8 miles, but now I'm doing mostly multiple runs in sums of 3 or 4 miles at a time. When time allows. This means I spend a lot of my day in spandex... because

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This last couple of years more and more people that are close to me have been diagnosed with various types of cancer. This disease does not discriminate and finds many different angles with which to strike. When I heard that Rev3 was planning something truly epic that is way outside my comfort zone to raise money for the Ulman Cancer Fund I knew it was exactly what I needed to do for

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090547844237303579noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695397.post-3884006989737308532012-01-03T08:00:00.000-05:002012-01-03T08:00:11.120-05:00

I stumbled up on Joel Runyon's Website Impossible HQ and was immediately intrigued! Then my friend Christine (check her out. She organized a 5k last year and earned $20k for Haiti) sent a Facebook message to a bunch of us listing the 10 impossible things she did in 2011 and the 10 impossible things she wanted to do in 2012... all based on Joel's Impossible HQ site. I decided to play along.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090547844237303579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695397.post-86911676095556444522011-12-29T06:57:00.000-05:002011-12-29T06:57:55.524-05:00

I keep talking about this huge goal I have for 2012.. one that requires a lot of running.... drum roll....  Rev3 is RUNNING across AMERICA!!!!  And I'm joining them!10 people (plus some) x 15 miles a day x 21 days = 3,150 miles!!! You read that right. We'll have some RVs, Some vans, a core group of 10 runners and other Team Rev3 athletes, friends and family meeting us along the way!

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