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A Show Ass™️ For The Ages
Week Nine, Day 2 Tuesday, September 7th, 2023 It is 95 thousand degrees again. Good golly, but it is hot outside. I’m looking forward to it though, I don’t mind running in the heat, she said, sitting in the comfort of her apartment with a giant thermos of ice water…
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Got To Admit, It’s Getting Better
Week Nine, Day 1 Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 WEEK NINE, Y’ALL! Ugh, we made it. Did you think we’d make it here? Because I gotta tell you, I wasn’t sure! Who am I kidding, of course I knew we’d make it here, but now we are here!! Wow. When this…
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Just Rag Doll It To The Ground
Week Eight, Day 3 Thursday, August 31st, 2023 POST-RUN MORTUM Time Running: 38 minutes Distance Achieved: 2.6 miles Tunage: Don’t make me say it again. Ugh, fine, Hadestown I CANNOT GET PAST 2.6 MILES JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. It happened again today, that moment where I was…
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POWER TEN LET’S GO
Week Eight, Day 2 Thursday, August 31st, 2023 POST-RUN MORTUM Time Running: 38 minutes Distance Achieved: 2.61 miles Tunage: Hadestown, I’m seeing it next week, alright, so get off my back already For the first time on FatGirl5K, I bring you, a conversation with Colby Moore: Ally Bo, AKA Fat…
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Life, Lemons, And The Pursuit Of Porcelain Warthogs
Week Eight, Day 1 Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 We have entered the penultimate week of training before the ever-elusive “free-run” portion of our chaos kicks in—week eight. I kind of can’t believe that we are here. I, for sure, have never made it this far into the app before, so…
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Country Roads, Take Me Home
Week Seven, Day 3 Saturday, August 26th, 2023 Greetings from Connecticut. Colby, Pete, and I have escaped the city to spend the week with my family in the Nutmeg State, where a week of paddleboarding, tubing, beach, lake, and firepits with the people we love most awaits. Oh yeah, and…
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Table Talk
Week Seven, Day 2 Thursday, August 24th, 2023 It really is a wild thing, witing these two weeks ahead of when they publish. Today, I posted the one from when I hit 2.6 miles. When I was feeling dropped into myself. I remember how I felt that day, riding that…
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Bad Medicine
Week Seven, Day 1 Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023 Content Warning: discussion of eating disorders, weight loss medication, self harm, and mental health. Ok. Ok, ok, ok. Ok, so this was originally a much longer, if you can believe it, much angrier post, but the first drafts of it were written in a…
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I’m A Grown Ass Woman, And I’m Doing Fine*
Week Six, Day 3 Friday, August 18th, 2023 POST-RUN MORTUM Time Running: 32minutes Distance Achieved: 2.19miles Tunage: Hamilton *You simply must listen to the song “Grown Ass Woman” by my extraordinary friend, Shaina Taub. It, as pretty much everything Shaina writes, encapsulates basically everything I’ve ever felt because Shaina has…
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Heel Toe, BB. Heel Toe.
Week Six, Day 2 Thursday, August 17th, 2023 All dressed up and nowhere to go. I have my sneaks and new compression sockies on, but just as I was about to head out, it started to downpour. So now we wait. I could write more here at the top. But…
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