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The Instagram Giveaway was a huge success, thank you everyone for participating!!

The winner was announced Friday evening and posted - what a lucky lady :)

I will be hosting another giveaway via Instagram and Facebook during the month of July and will post details next week.

So yesterday, was my birthday and it was great :)  I am one of those people that still loves to celebrate my birthday even as an adult and look forward to it and my special day.

The kids want to get me a new car because mine is fat.... There are three of them and I drive an SUV.  If I had a smaller car, they wouldn't fit with all of their "necessary" items, haha. 

Anyway, it's been raining like more than usual for Houston and I'm dying to get out and go fro a run.  I love to run in the ran but I'm will not go out if there are flash flood warnings (except for Harvey....I ran in that), lightening or thunder.  To many horror stories about people either getting swept away or electrocuted and I'm in no hurry to be one of them. 

So, here's to hoping that it isn't raining when I leave the office so that I can stop by the track on my way home for a few laps and speed work while the kids run around.

Speaking of working out - I've been slacking sooooo bad.  I can feel a difference in my body, attitude and energy level and it's not okay.  I was told yesterday that I was an inspiration for others to be healthy but I'm not feeling it at all lately.  But with my next marathon paid for, training will begin asap!

Oh, and I'm *planning* to run an ultra-marathon in December - about 1.5 months before my marathon.  Just enough time to recover before jumping right back in.  So my training it two-fold.  Survive the ultra and finish under the 7 hour limit and beat my marathon time from last year. 

How are all of you?  Any fun updates going on, good training programs to help kick me into gear?

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