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Weekly Recap: Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday. I'm back today with my weekly recap and link-up with Jess at Jess Runs Atlanta. Be sure to join us- I'd love to read your recap! Monday: 7 miles before work at a 9:04 min/mile. Tuesday: 5 miles at 8:55 min/mile before work. My friend Christie and I were about 3.5 miles in before the sleet/hail started. Yikes! I was glad we Continue Reading

Fits Do Race Reviews: The Family Turkey Trot 5k

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I won a 5k yesterday. It was very exciting. "I win. I'm a winner." (Tell me you know that movie.) Let me explain...in 2008, my immediate family decided to host their own "5k" race on Thanksgiving. It was so much fun, we did it again for the next four years. The past two years though, we took a break from the family run and did a legitimate 5k race in Milwaukee at Thanksgiving. But Continue Reading

Fits Do Race (Pre)views: Upcoming Thanksgiving Races in the Minneapolis Area.

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By Cool J in MinneapolisThe past five years, my family has organized their own 5k. You can check those out HERE and HERE. We "organized" this 5k just for the family. It was an opportunity for us to share a fun run with the whole family, and it was a healthy event where everyone could join. We tried to make it authentic with shirts, medals, a post-race party like no other, and Continue Reading

Fits Do Race Reviews: 5th Annual Family Turkey Trot

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By Cool JFive years of a healthy family tradition continued this past Thursday morning, as nearly everyone in my immediate family arrived for the 5th annual running of the family Turkey Trot.  Eight runners and one dog ran the new and improved 5k (which was actually a 4 miler) on a (very) warm Thanksgiving morning in Brookfield, Wisconsin.  There were also two babies, Continue Reading