whew!

Been training and training for Ruthie's Freedom Run (13.1 miles of solitude) which I will run in my beautiful favorite running places around my home. I haven't, however, been blogging. I've taken pictures to blog...I'll shoot for getting that done, but in the meantime, you might like to know that I went for a long weekend in Chicagoland to meet a friend and I ran on the treadmill while there and worked out on the elliptical AND inspired her to workout as well! Whoo hooooo!

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