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Journey to the Half - Week 1

Week 1 of my half marathon training is complete. If you don't remember, I signed up earlier this week to participate in a Star Wars themed runDisney half marathon in Disney World in April 2016. It was a fairly uneventful week until tonight. Today was my long run day, in which I needed to run 5 miles. I finally got around to doing so around 10:00 PM tonight. I used to think of long runs as a huge time wasting time sink. This thought made me hate them. I still dislike them, due to the time commitment, but I see...

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Journey to the Half

I did something late last night I swore I would never do again. I signed up for a half marathon. This is not my first half. It will be my third. The reason for my swearing off of half marathons was because of my second. After little time to train, I went into it unprepared. I finished the last 3.1 miles in pain and agony due to major cramping and pain in my legs and feet.  All this because I simply didn't have the time to train. It was for this reason I swore off half marathons or anything longer....

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The Disconnect That Reconnects - Part 2

I trained myself to put my phone down. Yes. Trained. It was a habit. That little red dot with a white number inside letting me know that someone had taken enough time out of THEIR day to "like" or "comment" on something of MINE was like a drug that beckoned me to just tap on it and drink in the ego-stroking goodness that came with seeing another thumbs up on one of my posts, pictures or comments.

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The Disconnect That Reconnects - Part 1

Welcome to the first article in a blog series about reclaiming lost minutes in your day and reconnecting to what is truly important in your life. Have you ever reached the end of the day and wondered where it went or tried to figure out what you did? Does that upset you, to go through an entire day and feel as though you had nothing to show for it? Or perhaps you figured out you spent more time reading posts on Facebook than you did enjoying the company of your family and friends? How and why does this happen? A...

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