Bored On The Run

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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. A friend of mine (ahem, Amy) posted on Facebook a few days ago, asking if I would be interested in running a 10K with her in August 2013. I haven’t even run my first 5K yet and this half-marathoner is asking me to run the 10K! I LOL’ed. It’s not the physical challenge I am afraid of. I just don’t have the attention span to...
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Getting Over the Pain

I’m sorry for having been MIA, folks. We took almost two full weeks off for our epic road trip out to New Mexico to see Brandon’s family for my birthday. Then we had to turn around and sent Brandon off to Las Vegas for training. So, it has been hectic around here. Now that I’ve been selected as the Face of the Race for the upcoming Los Alamitos Race on the Base, I will be updating the Race on the Base blog every other Friday about my training and thoughts. We’ll publish in tandem here and over there. I’m a...
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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: Bacon, Booze, Porn…and Running

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This is NOT an SEO bait, I promise you. I never bait!  Well, maybe when I get y’all over here to see my Slave Leia photo. But that’s more of a nerd bait, really. *ahem* And now we talk about bacon. The Sticky Pig Ice Cream Cart Kickstarter I just learned that my friend Tara–the great Paleo dessert queen, Bacon Vixen, and the owner of The Sticky Pig Bacon Confections–is looking to branch out into ice cream treats with a Kickstarter campaign. Y’all, she’s looking to get an ice cream cart.  More ways to get Tara’s super creative bacon treats...
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Five For Friday: My First Paleo Meal, Manhattan, and Burpees

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Five for Friday is a weekly (well, almost) 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. This is a week of MANY firsts! My First Paleo Meal Breaking news: Paleo diet is not gross. Well, at least at Anais + Tara’s Paleo Feast it is not. (For those who don’t know about Paleo diet, read here.) Of course, being the one on the Eat ‘Em All diet, I’d never refuse myself of any culinary pleasure. Well, except for beets. I can live without...
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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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