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Establishing the Kansas Hawkeye Farm Hall of Fame

#RivalStars Today TROMBONE DANGER is the first inductee of the Kansas Hawkeye Farm Hall of Fame. Our first mare, she had a nice career and helped us all learn a lot.

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UPDATED: Virtual run companies take note: how to lose a customer, and a company

UPDATED: Virtual run companies take note: how to lose a customer, and a company

Thirteen months feels like a long time. In the grand scheme of life it’s not, but when you are dealing with bad customer service it can feel like an eternity. For my dealings with virtualrunners.org, the 13 months felt very long. It was filled with disappointment and frustration. I first wrote about this in July, I was trying to get the company to ship a shirt I had purchased for a virtual run…

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A good day at #parkrun

It was a very good running day, a very good day indeed. It started with motivating myself to give #parkrun another try. A couple weeks back I went to the Exploration Place parkrun – the first parkrun in the state. I wanted find out if I enjoyed that because it was the first one, if it was the course or the low key “it’s not a race” atmosphere. I learned it was the course, and the atmosphere. I…

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Running the first “parkrun” in Kansas

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I’m a winner! (#RunChatHunt)

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Virtual run companies take note: how to lose a customer

I'm feeling pretty disappointed today, but am ready to move on.

I have been dealing with a virtual running company for months, trying to get what I paid for. The company’s inability to deliver what I paid for, now for about 10 months, with a series of broken promises has me lost forever. This has quite a backstory, so come along for the ride. Long before COVID-19 hit I started virtual racing. I had a number of reasons for doing so.First, I’m slow. Rather…

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A sale means cooking ahead

Inflation has been brutal. Seriously unkind to budgets. And it has really hurt at the grocery store. It’s why when one finds a sale makibg use of it – and doing some forward thinking. A couple weeks back a deep sale on ground beef and a sale on mozzarella string cheese meant five bags of cheese-filled meatballs in the freezer. This week the deal was chicken thighs. I won’t call them cheap, but,…

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Today on #runchathunt, remembering WHOOSH

Today on #runchathunt, remembering WHOOSH

June 27. #RunChatHut something weird to me. The grave of Whoosha the Wonderdog. For the 2022 Summer #RunChatHunt, one of the dozen-or-so missions was to photograph “weird-to-you things.” This challenge was among the most difficult, and with the deadline for finishing the hunt coming up in a few days I was starting to sweat a bit about it. But then I went for a long run on a Monday morning,…

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2022 #RunChatHunt

It’s here, the summer Run Chat Hunt on twitter. Here’s the list: Below are my entries. I’ll edit this post as we go thru the month. A mural. Chose “The Imagineers” in downtown Newton. June 12 A body of water. Chose Sand Creek on an interval day. June 14 Morning. Keep movin’. Still got all my appendages after this animal encounter for #runchathunt. June 15 Sunrise. June 15

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Movie Review: Tyson's Run

Movie Review: Tyson’s Run

I love to watch movies about running. Always have, ever since Chariots of Fire. There have not been many, nor enough, for me to consume. Chances are in my busy life – husband, father to three, runner, editor of multiple newspapers – may not have time to watch them when they come out. Such was the case of “Tyson’s Run.” If you have not heard of this little movie, that’s OK. Marketing for it was…

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What it’s supposed to be like

Sometimes the too-good-to-be-true does not disappoint and is not a scam. Take, for example, Bimbo’s Global Energy Race. I spotted a Facebook post that was, in my mind, too good to be true. A free virtual race, with a medal and swag bag. It had a tagline: “You run, we donate.” I, of course, had to try. I was ready for a 5K, and was contemplating entering a small local race. Problem with that…

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Why I run virtual races, and some company reviews

Through virtual racing I have been able to celebrate my successes – and become part of a world record holding group. Long before COVID-19 hit I started virtual racing. I had a number of reasons for doing so. First, I’m slow. Rather than deal with the embarrassment of finishing dead last, behind people who can actually walk faster than I run, at live races I thought virtuals would better help me…

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What bridge are you crossing today?

What bridge are you crossing today?

www.bible.com/111/psa.27.14.niv The best part of today’s run was taking this photo. My entire run my head was filled with bridges to cross – changes at work, questioning my running goals, mapping my immediate financial future in light if a sizable medical bill. Many bridges. And much to wait on God for. So … what bridges are you crossing today?

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Chicken thighs frozen to eaten in a hour

Today I found a dang good recipe, and learned that you really can go from frozen chicken pieces to full on dinner in less than an hour. This turned out well – from frozen to eaten in an hour. So here’s the deal. I had a couple packages of frozen chicken thighs. And I mean hard frozen – had to nuke ‘em to get the paper pad removed off the bottom of the package. It was pressure cooker to the…

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Saving breakfast with a microwave

Did you know you can make scrambled eggs in the microwave? No? Then let me change your life (or at least breakfast). Cheesy scrambled eggs, from my microwave Breakfast is a meal I skip pretty often, or at least used too. I didn’t want to take the time for it, and did not understand its full importance in weught managment and health. Then I learned about jump-starting the bod a little,…

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I became a Hamburger Hero in it

Recently I became a Hamburger Hero in my home. This is a big deal, because of context. We are a family of five. Ages range from born in the 1970s to 8 years old. It is rare to cook a meal that everyone finds good and will eat. Forget Salmon. Veggies are never going to universally accepted. But in the middle of my weight is journey I hit on something that is universally accepted. I have my desire…