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Vegetarians and Weekly Joys
If you read my awful experience with the restaurant last night, you will be happy to know I wrote a complaint to them. They haven’t responded back to me and I wonder if they will. But I feel...
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Why I Quit Swimming (vLog)
I had another post scheduled for today but with recent events I think this is more entertaining. I’m in the process of figuring out my life so please feel free to chime in. I made it right after I...
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Mini-Lookback of Swimming
One week ago-I had hung up the towel. Crawled back into bed. Led into the spiral that would not be swimming. I have gotten a lot of questions of whether I regret this decision yet, or if I’m happy...
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Real Girl and Class Humour (vlog)
Right on, do you know what sort of blog I haven’t had in a while. One that involves my personal life or getting dressed up and being a real girl. Well that is all good because on Saturday I went to...
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Open Water 3k Recap (44:00)
Before I begin, I think I have come to a point in my life where I truly enjoy doing whatever I feel while swimming in races. Let’s see here where to begin. Dad and I left the house at 7:30am for the...
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Olympic Swimming Musings
So you may agree with me, you may not. You may be over blogs about the Olympics…you may not. And finally you might be a swimmer or you might have absolutely no knowledge of swimming…either way I am...
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DNS
Last weekend I was supposed to race 2 miles in the open water. My dad and I have done this race the last four years and Matt joined last year. As you can see from the title, I didn’t swim. After...
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NYC Marathon Training Weeks 6-7
Monday: Elliptical (Precor 100i) + Strength class Tuesday: AM: 11.4 mile run easy PM: Memorial Scholariship 5k (18:50) total miles 18.75 Wednesday: 5.5 mile run easy Thursday 5.5 mile run easy Friday:...
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Time Keeps on Ticking…
I always enjoy learning more about bloggers whether it’s their personal life, a random story or question and answer post. Though to be honest I still could care less what your favorite color is…I will...
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Lake Effect Series: Bulimia and Swimming
Note from Hollie: I cannot believe there is less then a month to go until the Lake Effect Half Marathon. This story is from someone who I know personally and it has touched me so much. The first time...
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Recovery Week 2
This week can best be summarized as living my life, working and doing me. I had no sudden interest to cross train like it’s my job. That being said I did have an urge to do something. I didn’t want to...
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Just Keep Spinning…Swimming…
Last week’s workouts were interesting. I’m beginning to enjoy working out again, which I guess is good. After running was taken from me, I am just happy to do other workouts again. Some injuries I...
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Four Reasons Runners Should Get into the Pool
It’s interesting I’m writing this post. After spending years of my life swimming, I gave it up five years ago. I didn’t look back and haven’t been in the pool much since. But due to injury, here I...
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A Past with Swimming
Many people have asked more about my past with swimming so I thought I would share. Plus swimming is a big sport at the Olympics, and I love watching! On Tuesday, I wrote a post about why swimmers...
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June Training: 4 (Injury Free) Miles
June training: It’s time to look at my running log for June. Last month was an easy month to write because it was my lowest training month in the year, if not the last 3-4 years. I think I’ve had 0...
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Workout Log: Hiking, Humidity and Swimming
Last week flew by. Since the Fourth of July landed on a Monday, the week felt much shorter. Which is odd because generally “short” weeks feel like they last longer. Is that the case with anyone else?...
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Workout Log: (99% Injury Free?)
Training log: As demotivating last week was, this week was much better. In fact, this was the best week I’ve had while returning after my injury. Along with my running feeling good, I decided to get...
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NonRunning Workout Ideas
As most people know by now, after the April Fools half marathon, I experienced a serious running burnout. In fact, I wrote about it here. It wasn’t the race itself, but more of running hard for 6...
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Workouts: Swimming and Strength Training
Another week of workouts down. As most readers know by now, I’m currently not running. Some days, there is a twinge of excitement to run again, but some days I want nothing to do with the sport....
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Hiking Indian Wells State Park (Connecticut)
While in Connecticut last month, we decided to take a nice hike at Indian Wells State Park. It’s not a rigorous hike but a pleasant hour or two walk around the park. It’s family-friendly, and right...
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