Tag: ultrarunning
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Goals: Failures and Successes
What better time to talk about goals than on the Chinese New Year. Goals Does the word goal make you cringe inwardly a little? Sometimes I feel like it attaches meaning to something that I don’t really want to do, but must get done, like my statistics homework that I’m pushing out to do tomorrow…
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“Oh Buhay”: Life is So Hard
Oh buhay, Tagalog for “Life is so hard.” In contrast, my sweet friend, Maribel, made me a frame that says, ” Life… it’s so easy.” It’s a little inside joke my friends and I have with her. We can either go through life thinking one of the two. How do you see it? I’m blinking…
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Change Your Mindset and Have a Day to Remember
April and I used to have this inside joke where we would tell each other to “Have a day!” You know, because having a good day would be expecting too much. Well, I’m learning to expect more. It’s about making your day and not your day making you. Do you know what I’m talking about?…
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But Are You Happy?
April 5, 2008 The weather was perfect. No stomach issues. No cramping. There was nothing but blue skies and a tail wind. Could it get any better than this? The adrenaline that coursed through my veins was unlike anything I had yet experienced. Me and the Universe were vibin’ on all the cylinders. I had…
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The Addiction: Part 1
For those of you who knew me as Desiree “The Runner,” I started in 2006. I became addicted to running in a short span of time. It began with an easy 3 miles, but of course, like any good addiction, it spiraled out of control into 6 miles and then 9 miles within a month…
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