Getting Back on Track

Sharon Woods is always beautiful. The shade really helped. Today I went to Sharon Woods for an 8-mile long-distance training walk. As I’ve mentioned before, my training is a little bit off right now, so 8 miles is a pretty good stepping […]

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What Does Goal Weight Mean?

Several years ago I weighed myself dozens of times a day. About a year ago I decided to lose a couple of pounds to improve my racewalking speed. Losing about 5 12 lbs. and training better did help my speed quite a […]

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Making the Best of a Bad Training Situation

Over the last couple of weeks, Ohio has had unbearable heat, I took a vacation to a place with even worse heat, I’ve been over-worked and then I started to feel sick. Yesterday, the temps were mild, I felt great, I was […]

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I Thought it was Hot in Ohio!

We are in Oklahoma for a family reunion. Most of my husband’s family lives west of the Mississippi with many of them in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. (My in-laws were from Cherokee, OK.) I knew it tends to be hotter out […]

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