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The Story of a DIVA, Otherwise Known as my First Half-Marathon

Well today I ran my first half marathon. Believe it or not, it was the Run Like A Diva Half-Marathon. For those of you who know me in real life, you know that I am not really the Diva type. However, I will admit to enjoying watching the ladies running in their tutus and fancy [...]

“Because I Can…”

While buying a new pair of sneakers at a local running store the other day, I saw a shirt that simply said, “Because I can..” I had to buy it because it perfectly describes why I run – because I can… It is something that I could never do even in my overweight youth [...]

Our First 5K Race

In spite of pouring rain AND thunder and lightning, Lenny (13) and I competed in our first 5K race today. Mercifully, the rain stopped just as the race began. How’s that for answered prayers!!! Lenny placed 3rd in his age group with a time of 25:49 and I was thrilled with my time [...]

Yeah for Me!!! And the Children!!!

Well I did it. Hope, Lenny and I ran in my first running race yesterday. We ran a mile and Lily did the 1/4 mile fun run.

Peter and Lily before Lily’s race:

Lily, looking a bit nervous before her race

Lily’s big finish!!!

Hope [...]

Update from Doodle Acres – July 15, 2009

I know, I know, it has been a long time since I have blogged. I didn’t start out taking a blogging break but somehow, I got out of the habit of posting. So anyway, for those couple of you who might still check this site, I thought I’d write a post about what [...]

Exercise, Exercise, Come On Everybody and Exercise

I don’t remember what children’s show featured those lyrics in an oft sung tune, but I found this cute ticker on a running site today and wanted to share it!!! Isn’t it cute?

Isn’t He Sweet?

This morning I followed my usual routine of devotions, breakfast, and a walk. Not to be deterred by the possibility of rain, I headed out for my walk inspite of the threatening skies. I hadn’t walked for long before I started to see the rain making its presence known on my glass. I decided to [...]

Some Semblance of a Schedule

OK, I admit it. The last couple of months have been a wonderfully crazy blur, full of many blessed events (hence the reason that I have been blogging so infrequently and also the reason that I encouraged you to add me to your Blogreader —Bloglines is my personal favorite). While wonderful, these last few [...]

Exercise with Frodo

For those of you couch potatoes like me who are looking for a way to get in shape after the holidays, I came across a website that has the “Walk to Rivendell” challenge. We can walk ourselves healthy following Frodo’s path. They have different distances that represent different parts of his [...]

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