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Hi everybody! It’s Christine again, checking in for Sweet-Tooth Friday! Today we are going to take one of the season’s most popular flavors and give it life outside the can- I’m talking about fresh pumpkin! While my big bro was busy qualifying for Boston, I spent the weekend at his house chilling with his two…
Nifty Fifty (Miles) I know what I want to do next. Run 50 miles. Perhaps the most exciting thing about qualifying for Boston is — well, that I don’t have to do it anymore. I don’t mean I’m happy that I can sit on the couch and eat potato chips now, though I have done…
Three full days have passed since I qualified for Boston. And finally, I have a chance to relax and think about it. This week has been completely hectic for me, so hectic that I find myself forgetting about the race for a while, then remembering it all the sudden and replaying in my mind those…
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Feelin’ Groovy Things have been a whirlwind since I went to bed Sunday night after qualifying for Boston. Woke up Monday morning, graded some papers while we drove the rest of the way home, went directly to school, skipped my afternoon classes to get home and work on an assignment until midnight, and woke up…
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When I hit the 22-mile marker, I knew what I had to do to qualify. Two 7:15 miles and two 7:30′s would do it. Problem was, I was sure I didn’t have it in me. Having barely been able to manage 7:30′s for miles 21 and 22, and fading fast, I knew was just a…
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Well, this is it. Here I am in Corning, New York, with just 14 hours to go until I try to qualify for Boston. We drove up on Thursday night in my dad’s motorhome. Four people and two dogs in something not much bigger than a van might not sound like much fun, but the…
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‘Just’ Food Hi guys! This is Christine here, back for Sweet-Tooth Friday! Instead of sharing a recipe with you, this week I wanted to share a book I thought you NMA-ers would find interesting: Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly by James E. McWilliams. I originally picked…
Holy F I got busy! Between schoolwork, more schoolwork, and getting ready for the trip to upstate New York for the marathon, yesterday was one of those days where every single waking minute was accounted for. The result — no blog post and a track workout in the dark. Literally, the dark. The hour between…
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