Rise of the Machine: My Treadmill Experiment

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Another biweekly installment of my update as the Face of the Race for the Los Alamitos Race on the Base. Please give the Race’s blog some traffic and click here to see the original post. It’s 75F out there today [Note: That meant last Thursday, FYI.], you guys! You have no idea how excited I am that the weather is coming back to the normal Californian winter after the “Big Freeze” we had this past week.  This means I can get back outside to run again. While I saw many runners hitting the road through the cold snap, I retreated indoors...
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This is the Face of the Race

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Back in September, I told you guys I signed up to run my very first race, the 5K at the Los Alamitos Race on the Base, in February.  Being a social media girl, I keep my eyes on the Race’s Facebook and blog activities. And then one day, I saw their call for entries to be the Face of the Race, a person whom they’d follow the training and experience of running the Race.  I thought I might as well just enter. What else am I going to do between housework and job hunting, right? Well, I’m it. I’m the...
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Five for Friday: First 5K, First Battleship, and Proper Gangnam Style

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Five for Friday is a weekly series about the five new things I learned each week. It could be anything from a new recipe, new skills, or a new life lesson. Race On the Base: My First 5K I’m doing it, folks. I’m going to run the 5K at Race on the Base in February 2013.  This will be my first 5K race ever. First race I signed up for since, I don’t know, 6th grade when I raced around a 400 meter track at Royal Bangkok Sports Club. Race on the Base is famous for their reverse triathlon race...
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