And I didn’t finish last!

This past Sunday I walked the Dewey Dash in nearby Elburn. It was a 5k so about 3 miles. I walk on average 3-5 miles almost everyday so I thought I could probably handle this.
I got to Elburn about 45 minutes before the race so I could check in.  For pre-registering I received a lime [...]

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Walk into Spring…

Even though I haven’t talked about it lately, I’m still walking. I decided after last year’s Pumpkin Fest Run that this year I wanted to walk it again. I haven’t for the last 4 years and I really missed it. In fact I even missed walking and now that’s winter is finally over it’s such [...]

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A harbinger!

Somewhere in high school in an English class with Carol Houseman or Sheila Munter harbinger was a vocabulary word. It’s one of the words on my list of favorite words, the only problem is that there just are not enough places to throw it out there, but I’ve been laying in wait knowing that soon I [...]

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Winter Walking

It was beautiful walking this morning–still not too cold, and not really windy. Bundled up it felt good. Some parts were slickery, but walking in the tire prints of the cars and snowplows was the safest spot to be. I walked just over 3 miles in and around Parkside Estates.

All bundles up to face the [...]

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Walk! Walk! Walk!

New Year’s day I forced my family and Kris’s family to work on their resolutions for 2009. Lucy played along well, but the rest of them just wouldn’t play seriously. I made my list and right at number 5 is walk in the Sycamore Pumpkin Run. Last year I found the most awesome website for [...]

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