Category: Mind Games
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VIDEO: What’s Inside My Hot Chocolate Virtual 5K Swag Bag?
Let me show you what’s inside my 2020 Allstate Hot Chocolate Virtual 5K swag bag via my video on Slowpoke Divas TV channel on YouTube. SPOILER ALERT: Yep, I earned the cool finisher medal! For me, finisher medals are tangible reminders of the work I did to get to the start line, and then persevere…
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VIDEO: Is This a Fitness Walking Problem or a Plan?
With so many live 5K races forced to postpone or cancel because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I opted to sign up for a bunch of virtual races. I intended to use them as motivators to keep me on my walking and fitness path. In my “Is This a Fitness Walking Problem or a Plan?” video…
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Just Keep Going: Discover Your Inner Strength
This image from my photo library of a 2013 tweet from @WomensRunning caused a flood of memories and emotions from when I finished my first half marathon. The last two or three miles of the Bellingham Bay Half Marathon almost did me in. During the first two hours of the race, my usual race walking…
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Getting from Here to There
How can we become the person we envision when we don’t know what that that feels like?
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When Life Interferes with Your Plans
I’m having a hard time dealing with reality these days. No, I haven’t lost touch with reality…it’s more like reality has lost touch with me. The world feels surreal, everything’s gone sideways and upside down ranging from crazy American politics to what-was-once-mundane grocery shopping. Perhaps Life is also trying to teach me something I’ve fought…