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Rubicon
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Rubicon
Over the course of the past three years, I have grown and gone through more than I thought possible. Or wanted to. Contrary to how I would prefer to live, from time to time I have caught myself fearing the future, waiting for the other shoe to drop and imagining the worst. The problem is, […]
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Rubicon
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Over the course of the past three years, I have grown and gone through more than I thought possible. Or wanted to. Contrary to how I would prefer to live, from time to time I have caught myself fearing the future, waiting for the other shoe to drop and imagining the worst. The problem is, […]
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Speedy Is Not My Middle Name
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Speedy Is Not My Middle Name
Last Saturday morning I found myself bear crawling up a set of icy stairs out of the river valley, wondering how I get myself into these situations. As I desperately tried to not start a domino effect of people wearing stretchy clothes, I had this sinking feeling like I didn’t belong. Actua...
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Speedy Is Not My Middle Name
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Last Saturday morning I found myself bear crawling up a set of icy stairs out of the river valley, wondering how I get myself into these situations. As I desperately tried to not start a domino effect of people wearing stretchy clothes, I had this sinking feeling like I didn’t belong. Actua...
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Back To The Basics
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Back To The Basics
The other day one of my crazy, fit friends sent me this text … My immediate reaction was to respond with, “No! Are you crazy? I hate running … Yes, ok, when and where do I sign up?” Do not fear, an epic commitment to spend half of my life running over the next few years [&...
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Back To The Basics
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The other day one of my crazy, fit friends sent me this text … My immediate reaction was to respond with, “No! Are you crazy? I hate running … Yes, ok, when and where do I sign up?” Do not fear, an epic commitment to spend half of my life running over the next few years [&...
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How To Combat A Severe Case Of Some Day-itis
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How To Combat A Severe Case Of Some Day-itis
There is always tomorrow to do things, right?  Sure … If you are anything like me and 99.985824% of people in the world, you have a ‘Some Day List’. The items on this list are the things that you will accomplish one of these days, when you have the time and life affords you the ...
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How To Combat A Severe Case Of Some Day-itis
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There is always tomorrow to do things, right?  Sure … If you are anything like me and 99.985824% of people in the world, you have a ‘Some Day List’. The items on this list are the things that you will accomplish one of these days, when you have the time and life affords you the ...
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Because I am weird and I know it …
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Because I am weird and I know it …
One of my many quirks is that I often listen to podcasts while training. The upside is that I learn a lot interesting things and kill two birds with one stone, but the down side is that sometimes my training suffers due to one of my other quirks – my need to make notes of […]
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Because I am weird and I know it …
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One of my many quirks is that I often listen to podcasts while training. The upside is that I learn a lot interesting things and kill two birds with one stone, but the down side is that sometimes my training suffers due to one of my other quirks – my need to make notes of […]
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The Feminist Comparison Trap
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The Feminist Comparison Trap
On being a feminist. This past week the conversation about women’s rights came to the forefront of media and conversation throughout North America. You would have to either be dead or be deaf and living under a rock to not have read about or watched the Women’s Marches and the resulting com...
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Less Chaos, More Kick Ass
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Less Chaos, More Kick Ass
Bienvenido to January; the month for diets, resolutions and gym memberships … … better known as the month which is severely annoying to work out in when you live in the subarctic. The gym is full of resolutioners which makes me just want to bike, run stairs and ski outside, but outsid...
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The Year Of The Willow
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The Year Of The Willow
Life is crazy – get used to it. Apparently this is my giant ‘ah-hah!’ moment after 37 years of being Donloree. It isn’t very deep, but it is oddly profound. Last night, I found myself up later than I should have been in a hotel room in downtown Vancouver, reflecting on the past year of my life [&...
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Injury-itis
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Injury-itis
As I felt myself falling, the warning from the beginning of the race ran through my brain. Be careful racing tonight. There is a lot of single track and there are many technical parts on the course – leaves, roots, logs and holes. Confirmation that the course was extremely technical was given as ...
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Let’s talk about regret, baby …
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Let’s talk about regret, baby …
Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be … let’s talk about regret … If you’re my age, plus or minus 5 years, the Salt n Pepa song is rolling though your head. You’re welcome. For the last seven weeks I have been experiencing what it ...
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