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	<description>A Mid-Life Fitness Journey</description>
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		<title>Look Ma, No iPod!</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2011/03/28/running-without-musi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I run, I like my music. I rely on it to get me through the dips, to drown out the negative voices that tell me to walk all the time and to cover up the sound of my breathing when it gets ragged. The iPod is a tool that makes getting out the door to go running just a little easier. Because as much as I enjoy running once I&#8217;m out there doing it (or maybe more accurately when I&#8217;m done), getting out the door is still a challenge. It&#8217;s much easier to stay cozy on the couch, especially when it&#8217;s cold and windy. Unfortunately, USAT doesn&#8217;t allow iPods in any leg of a triathlon. So&#8230;. if I&#8217;m going to have some fun in this race, I have to get used to running without my  iPod. Today I did. I went out for my run and left my iPod sitting all lonely on the counter. This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve run without it, but it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve run without it intentionally. And it&#8217;s the first time it&#8217;s gone well. I&#8217;ve been in races where I can&#8217;t use my iPod when I run. It has always made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logging The Miles</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2011/03/22/logging-the-miles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday was my best workout day yet. And with 6 weeks to go, I&#8217;m confident that I&#8217;ll be able to cross the finish line at St. Anthony&#8217;s on May 1st. I may need a wheel chair to get to the after-party, but I&#8217;ll cross the finish line! I started my day with my planned workout, a 6.2-mile run. I walked a .2 warm-up and started running. I didn&#8217;t stop running until I&#8217;d completed my second loop of my 3.2-mile course, so my total run was 6.2 miles, no walking. The run took me 1:14 minutes, just under a 12-minute mile pace. For me, that pace worked perfectly for that distance. I felt strong until about 5.4 miles and then the legs really didn&#8217;t want to work anymore. But there wasn&#8217;t much more to go and I knew I had it. It still amazes me how much of running success is played out in our heads rather than the road. I made sure I kept the self-talk really positive and that carried me through. My mantra? If my arms can pull me through the water for an hour, then my legs (which are much bigger) should be able to carry me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fresh Start</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/12/28/a-fresh-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rotten cold over. Check Holiday feasting and revelry done. Check 2010-2011 Winter Blizzard over. Check (and let&#8217;s hope there&#8217;s not another one!) Resolutions for 2011 firmly in place? Well that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing here. I&#8217;ve committed to Team in Training and an Olympic Distance Triathlon for May 1. Training was going well until Rotten Cold took over. Now it&#8217;s been a couple of weeks. Ack! Tomorrow means back to the gym. I got all kinds of cool outdoor running gear for Christmas but old man Winter has put outdoor training on hold for at least a week. Maybe it will rain next weekend. In the meantime, I can break in the new sneaks on the treadmill. The Diet! I&#8217;ve stopped and started so many times this year with a new healthy eating regimen, I&#8217;ve lost count. What I haven&#8217;t lost count of are the pounds I&#8217;ve managed to find again. Obviously, my previous attempts this year haven&#8217;t been so successful. Before I&#8217;ve done too much damage, that&#8217;s going to stop. I will be making myself more accountable with my food intake, possibly using this blog as a food journal, the good, the bad and the ugly. And from this day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hesitation</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/11/11/hesitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Triathlon Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hesitation? How many of us let this get the best of us? I know I do. After some time away from healthy eating (no I didn&#8217;t pull it back together right after Halloween like I&#8217;d hoped) and a few weeks away from running, I feel like I&#8217;m finally getting back on track. It was tough. But not because I can&#8217;t do it. It was tough because I convinced myself it would be. With the running especially, I find that if I take some time off from it, getting back to it gets me nervous. It&#8217;s almost like I forget how good it feels to finish a run, and instead focus on how hard it is to start one. I went for my first run in two weeks last night. Now mind you, it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve been doing nothing. I&#8217;ve been walking long distances and working out in other ways. But I haven&#8217;t been running, and I haven&#8217;t been swimming or biking. I know I have some time before next race season begins, but with lofty goals, I need to get started now. And I need to stop hesitating. I need to stop letting my  head get in the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Stuck</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/10/15/i-am-stuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogger's block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changing up the routine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am stuck. I am suffering from blogger&#8217;s block (different from writer&#8217;s block, since I now write for a living and that would be detrimental to my paycheck). But writing about me and my  ever-so-exciting fitness adventures has been escaping me. (Sarcasm, since I&#8217;m feeling kind of bored and frustrated in this space). I keep starting blog posts, and they end up in my drafts folders, abandoned because I just can&#8217;t seem to get my thoughts in order to get past the second paragraph. ok, on to the third paragraph&#8230; Maybe the reason I am having trouble writing about fitness  is because I&#8217;m blocked here too. I am suffering from weight loss block. I&#8217;ve gone back to Weight Watchers, had a couple good weeks (okay, one), and I&#8217;ve again hit a plateau that frustrates me right into a bag of Hershey&#8217;s Kisses or a pan of brownies. (Gee, do you think that could be why the scale won&#8217;t move? Vicious circle, I&#8217;m telling you.) I will give myself credit for not diving into the bad foods unless I&#8217;ve been frustrated by a weigh-in, more or less keeping that to one or two days a week. I weigh in Saturdays. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overriding the Lizard Brain</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/09/19/overriding-the-lizard-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a part of our brain, according to Seth Godin, that has the capacity to stop us from doing great things, or doing anything, for that matter. It&#8217;s the part of our brain that makes us afraid or unsure of ourselves. It&#8217;s the part of our brains that makes us cautious, afraid that if we push too hard or push at all, we&#8217;ll get hurt, we&#8217;ll fail, something bad will happen. I have to fight my lizard brain. Really. In everything I do. I especially find myself fighting with my lizard brain when I&#8217;m working out. And this morning was no exception. This morning though, I won. I had a 3.2 mile run planned this morning. I knew I needed to go. But my lizard brain wanted to hang around the house. My lizard brain kept trying to talk me out of stepping out the door. It gave me lots of reasons not to run today. My leg hurt. I ate all wrong yesterday. It was hot. I quieted it with the notion that the run could always become a walk. The problem with the lizard brain is once you tell it there&#8217;s an easy way out, it reminds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running with the Buses</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/09/15/running-with-the-buses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back to school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool weather running]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weight watchers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/?p=1155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kinda like running with the bulls, only if you&#8217;re smart you run in the opposite direction of the buses so you don&#8217;t get creamed. My road is the bus route for the junior high and high school AND there&#8217;s an elementary school at the other end of the road. Many, many buses when school starts. And right at the time I go out running. It&#8217;s noisy. And Wednesday is recycling day &#8212; garbage trucks too! Today was my first morning run with the  buses. While I&#8217;m not a huge fan of the buses, I do like that it signals the beginning of the best running weather. It also signals the season where it&#8217;s important to pay really close attention to the traffic. Not just because of  the buses, but teachers and parents driving their kids to school too. It turns my quietish road into a main road for a short period of time in the morning and the afternoon. Besides the buses? This was one of the best runs I&#8217;ve had in a long time. The conditions were perfect. Breezy, cool, sunny. I went running this morning for the endorphin rush that usually follows a good run. I managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back on Track</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/09/08/getting-back-on-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging to stay healthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I go through periods where I write blog posts and then don&#8217;t like the way they sound when I read them back to myself, so I toss them. I can be prone to whining. Really, I can. There have been a string of those this summer. I started thinking about why my blog posts aren&#8217;t getting to my actual blog, and I realized it&#8217;s because over the last few months, I&#8217;ve lost my focus and I didn&#8217;t really want to admit that. I&#8217;ve become a bit of a slacker from a weight watching perspective, from an exercise perspective and I guess, as might be expected, from a blogging perspective. I haven&#8217;t been visiting my Twitter friends almost at all. I&#8217;ve come to count on this community to keep me rolling along, eating right, moving and staying on top of my healthy habits. I am so inspired by the stories I read and the people I&#8217;ve met along the way these past couple of years. And I feel that by slipping from my track, I&#8217;ve let you down somehow. While it&#8217;s been slow, I&#8217;ve let almost 15 pounds creep back on. While I&#8217;m still exercising, it&#8217;s intermittent at best and races [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye on the Prize: Long Island Diva&#8217;s Half Marathon</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/27/running-long-island-divas-half-marathon/</link>
		<comments>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/27/running-long-island-divas-half-marathon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diva's half marathon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staying on track from a food perspective has been tricky these past few months. And I plan on getting that back in order just as soon as I can. Today will be a good day. Tomorrow will be a good day. Then I&#8217;ll have VACATION. This weekend I head off to a family reunion, where I can pretty much be guaranteed I will overeat and overdrink. But it will be loads of fun, and I&#8217;m not planning to limit myself too much for the couple of days I will be away. When we get home, that will be a different story. When we get home, I will be training for a half marathon that I found in my area that just looks like awesome fun. It&#8217;s called the Diva&#8217;s Half Marathon and you are greeted at the finish line with champagne and chocolate. Now if that&#8217;s not an incentive to finish a race, I don&#8217;t know what is! I&#8217;m in the process of trying to get my sister to do this with me. I&#8217;ll be working on her at the reunion! Like that sis? Now I&#8217;ve called you out in my blog&#8230; how can you say no?? The thing is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running: Conditions Matter</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/23/running-conditions-are-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Falvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a blog with substance award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat girl to fit girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fitness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went for my second run this week. It&#8217;s still hot. But not nearly as hot as it was on Wednesday. Again, as I write this post it&#8217;s raining, which we&#8217;ve been told will bring in more scorching heat tomorrow,  however short-lived. With the impending rain, it was humid again this morning too, but again, not nearly as humid as it was on Wednesday. Today&#8217;s run was bearable. Today&#8217;s run actually wasn&#8217;t bad. I still had to walk a bit, but I went 2.5 miles with less walking and more efficient running than Wednesday. In fact, I did the longer distance in about the same amount of time. I didn&#8217;t feel like I weighed 2000 pounds on today&#8217;s run. That could be because I have been eating much better than I was earlier in the week. It could also be just that the air wasn&#8217;t as heavy. Today&#8217;s run left me feeling like with a few more weeks of training, I can get back to where I was last year pretty soon, pre-injuries. Today&#8217;s run had me contemplating how far I&#8217;ve come rather than the steps backwards I&#8217;ve taken recently. I forget that sometimes. I forget that before last year, [...]]]></description>
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