Category: Life Lessons
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The Adventure of a Lifetime. Almost.
It was going to be this incredible adventure. This accomplishment that I’d been waiting to accomplish since I first started craving the taste of adventure. It had always been a “some day” until one day I realized it was someday. I couldn’t comprehend it until I was in it: because it was almost unreal. DAY 1. On…
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Grip Strength, Clown Masks, and a Walmart Parking Lot.
Spartan races have given me everything from adrenaline and pride, to laughs and tears, to bruises and peanut butter sandwiches, to near hypothermia and a conditioned response of joy at the sound of a cow bell… but what I’m most thankful for is the feeling. On race days we are excited, triumphant, encouraged – but…
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Before you give up on fitness… #JABSSTRONG
It’s not about miraculously becoming a skinny person. Or… POOF! abs of steel. It’s not about running a 5 minute mile, or climbing Mt. Everest. It’s not about lifting what the Crossfit and powerlifting dudes and chicks are lifting in the weight room, or being able to become a pretzel in the yoga studio. It’s not about…
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To find the words..
It’s been some time since I last wrote. Actually, its even been some time since we finished the trip. Every time I thought I could sit down and come up with something I just stared at the screen, too overwhelmed to turn thoughts into words. Of course I’ve been asked over and over to talk…
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600 kilometers, 600 bruises, and 600 ‘thank yous’
We’ve reached Nantes, and with that, passed our 600km mark. Our progress has been considerably slower than we anticipated because of the cold… which has also not been quite as we anticipated: Highs of 2° C or less by day, with icy nights to follow – an unusually cold French winter. But rather than cycling,…
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I’ll see you…
I love reading the little fortunes inside of fortune cookies. Sometimes they’re not really fortunes (like my sister’s “the rubber bands are heading in the right direction”), but sometimes they’re really nice; and in either case I get to smile. Maybe a week before I left to volunteer in Leyte, Philippines, January of 2014, our…
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