Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running
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2017 Travels – Road Trip Edition
I packed in quite a bit to this summer, so much that remembering things like where I put this notebook so I could type up the previous post. For that reason, I have just one post about the road trip rather than a before and after. The idea for a road trip first occurred to…
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San Francisco First Half Marathon 2017 – Race Recap
Race #131 Half Marathon #40 California Half Marathon #4 2017 Race #14 2017 Half Marathon #5 San Francisco First Half Marathon #2 San Francisco Marathon Race #5 Last year during wedding planning for Mom and Ellis we talked about all running the San Francisco Marathon this year. Plans changed; Ellis hasn’t been running and Mom…
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2017 Travels – UK Edition – Lessons Learned
This post was supposed to go up last Tuesday. However, I very cleverly hid the notebook in which I had written the post by tidying up my room so that I overlooked the notebook when packing for my road trip. Thus, I had to wait until after to get the post up. This is what…
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Red, White, and Blue Shoes 5k 2017 – Race Recap
Race #130 5k #47 2017 Race #14 2017 5k #4 Red, White, and Blue Shoes 5k #7 I keep coming away from this race a bit disappointed. Given the weather and my prior training though, I have nothing to be disappointed in. Still, when my time at this race has gotten slower each year since…
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Responding to the Thin-Skinned
In March of 2016, I made the decision to leave the Greenville Track Club. I detailed that in a post on my old blog so I will not rehash that here. I left with the intent and hope of being able to rejoin should the dysfunction improve. As of this past Memorial Day, it had…
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2017 Travels – London Edition – Preparation
When this post publishes, Mom and I will be well into a long awaited jaunt across the pond. We started setting aside money in 2014. For as long as it took to finally get the trip under way, it is well worth it. Planning this trip looked a lot different than the others, especially from…
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A Chance to Start Over
Today marks the last official contracted day of my first year back in the classroom. Tomorrow, I leave for a long-awaited trip to England and Scotland. The parallels beg for comparison. Six years ago I completed my last contracted day for the school year with the prospect of a trip of a lifetime to London…
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Charity Chase Half Marathon 2017 – Race Recap
Race #129 Half Marathon #39 NC Half Marathon #6 2017 Race #13 2017 Half Marathon #4 Charity Chase Half Marathon #2 Back in 2012 when I was still a fairly new runner, I made a goal of running a double digit race every month. (Living in the south makes it difficult to get in a…
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Traveling on a Teacher’s Salary
So far in this blog’s short history, I have talked a lot about both traveling and personal finance. most of those posts have focused on the how. This post focuses on the why. Why do I choose to spend a comparatively high percentage of my income on travel and everything that goes along with it?…
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Freedom Flyer 2 Miler 2017 – Race Recap
Race #128 2 Miler #1 2017 Race #12 2017 2 Miler #1 Freedom Flyer 2 Miler #1 When I saw that the Greenville Track Club was putting on a new holiday race in a distance that I have never raced before, I signed up immediately. (Like I have mentioned before, I have an addiction to…
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