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I am a WARRIOR!

Yea you read that right! I am a warrior! No, I am not a warrior princess. I am a Fitness Warrior! I am so excited to join the Sports Backers, Keep It Moving initiative by becoming a member of the 4th class of Fitness Warriors! What is a Sports Backers? During the past 25 years, Sports Backers, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has developed programs and events that are designed to inspire people from all corners of our community to live actively.  We achieve this work by focusing on a network of collaborative partnerships with other organizations, businesses, local governments and faith based institutions.  In order to have transformational change, we realize we can’t do it all alone, but rather we work to build a movement of change in our community to make active living the easy choice.                                                                                     --Sports Backers Website I have run several of their races and have always loved what the brand, S

I'm a Marathoner ya!!

5 months. 78 runs totaling  484.18 miles. All this lead to one day, November 11, 2017. Richmond’s 40 th  Anniversary of the Richmond Marathon and my debut as a marathoner.  I was filled with excitement and nerves. I had trained for months for this day in the heat so the weather report advising that Richmond would be experiencing a freeze had me shook to my core.  Let’s flash back real quick. EXPO Friday afternoon my husband and I took the drive to the expo at the Author Ashe Center . I met with my running buddy Tiffany and we headed to get our numbers. This was both of our first marathons so we asked a bunch questions about gear and what we should wear, grabbed some hand warmers and a new head band and headed for the exit. Friday night was a fun fashion show where I tried on a number of running outfits trying to figure out what made the most sense. I have ran in weather this cold but never a marathon, never anything over 13.1 miles and the last thing I wanted was to add