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Marathon Training: I went finally!
I hadn’t been in weeks. First, the rain kept me from marathon training, and then out of my own apathy and body exhaustion, I missed two weeks of training long runs on Saturday mornings. But, because I missed those runs, and because my conscience was kicking in and starting to nag me, I was determined [...]
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Marathon Training: I Overslept. AGAIN.
It was about that time. That time somewhere in between when the rooster crows “Cock-a-doodle-doo” and the sun coming out to bake everything it came into contact with. Yes. It was THAT. Time. It was EXACTLY 6AM on Saturday morning. Exactly the time that this week’s marathon training was supposed to begin. Not the time [...]
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Marathon Training: I Overslept
That awkward moment when you are exhausted from going pretty hard during the week, so you take a nap Friday night after work, and the next thing you know, it’s 6 o’clock on Saturday morning when you wake up to your alarm on your phone screaming at you to throw yourself out of bed. The [...]
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Marathon Training: It Didn’t Happen
This week, we were supposed to have marathon training, as we usually do. Bright and early, at 6am. On. A. Saturday. Morning. I was actually dreading it this week. We had been starting training earlier because of the extreme heat (we almost set a record in Dallas for number of consecutive days over 100 degrees). [...]
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Marathon Training: My IT Band Hurts
So last saturday, July 30th, as usual, we had our marathon training at White Rock Lake. This week, we were doing hill training in the neighborhoods around the park. For the last 2 months, I’ve been suffering from IT band issues. The IT band is a group of muscles around the outside of the knee. [...]
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#TwEATup #1: Lockhart Smokehouse
I don’t know how we got on the subject, but one day, me and some of my friends on Twitter – Scott Vann, Kirk Coleman, and Matt Smith – got on the subject of barbeque. We all decided one day that we were going to eat barbeque at one restaurant mutually decided on, and tweet [...]
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#TwEATup #3: Marshall’s BBQ, Carrollton, TX
Since the summer began, a few friends and I have been on a hunt for DFW’s best, non franchise barbecue. We began our journey at Lockhart Smokehouse in Dallas’s Bishop Arts District, and four our second tweatup (which I didn’t write about…my bad…) we ventured to Hard 8 BBQ in Coppell. For Tweatup Number three, [...]
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Marathon Training: I Made it!
12.16 miles. That is the farthest I have ever run in one sitting (for lack of a better term; even thinking about it in retrospect can make you delirious) in my life. Seeing as I was running late (as usual; getting up at 5:15 AM on a Saturday morning is hard enough as it is), [...]
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Marathon Fundraising: I worked Two Triathalons
Over Labor Day weekend, since I had a little extra time on my hands due to a three-day weekend, I decided to work some Team-In-Training fundraisers for my marathon. Basically, for each hour that you work, Team In Training lets you put $10 towards your marathon fundraising, at a maximum of $150. I was also [...]
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The Decline of Tradition
Constantly throughout our childhood years, we were told to keep our grades up, be active in the community, and participate in clubs and activities outside of the school setting. We were told if we did these things, we would be able to take out massive amounts of student loans to finance our way through a [...]
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My New Job At Standing Dog
As write my first post on my new personal blog, I feel like I’m in a place where things are beginning to look up. I’ve just finished my first week of work in the SEO department at Standing Dog, an SEO and Digital Marketing firm in Dallas. I feel that companies, corporations large and small, [...]
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