Remaining Upright by Michelle Roberts “What’s the matter, honey?” By the time my father asked me I never even knew the answer. He said when I was a teenager he used to watch as I took on more and more – bigger challenges, harder classes and more after-school activities. He waited on the sidelines for […]
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Remaining Upright
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Ready to Win!
Ready To Win! by Carolyn Guhman I have a race this Sunday, January 19, 2014. It is the Louisiana Half Marathon in Baton Rouge. And I am going to win! It has already been decided! A couple of weeks ago I had a really bad race. It was a 10 miler in the cold, in […]
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The Way to Joy
When the going gets tough… In 2009 I hit the lowest point of my life… I looked around and said, “I don’t have the strength to do this anymore.” I had everything, a loving husband, loving children, four beautiful grandsons and twin grandbabies on the way. But nothing seemed worth “it”. Life was a struggle, […]
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Relax and Run
Finding the Passion In Running It has been almost a month since I fulfilled my lifelong dream of completing a marathon. Sometimes I have to pinch myself to remember that this is real and that I don’t have to fret, worry, plan, anticipate or dream about that day in October, 2013. I don’t have to […]
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Found Myself Running: The Way It Was…
A continuation of a previous post by Found Myself Running entitled: Greater than the Sum of my Parts. Okay, everybody knows I’m an “older” woman…but one day, if I am lucky, I will be a REALLY old lady. I will no longer be able to run, to walk or maybe even to dream. But if […]
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Found Myself Running: Greater than the Sum of my Parts…
Making My Dream a Reality It is not likely that many who happen to pass Corral L at the starting line of the Chicago Marathon on October 13, 2013, will even notice the older, overweight woman with a look of terror in her eyes who will be shifting nervously from foot to foot. She will […]
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