Tampa Bay Margarita Festival {Giveaway}

How do you like your margaritas?

With extra salt?

With extra lime?

Heavy on the agave and the tequila?

Over ice and a glass that’s never empty?

Next Saturday, May 25, I will experience THE margarita event to remember at the first annual Tampa Bay Margarita Festival at Curtis Hixon Park. With live music, piñatas, volleyball, food trucks, fireworks and more, the event promises to provide margaritas just the way I like them: constantly pouring.

For the ultimate margarita experience, I plan to upgrade to La Vie Grand Marnier VIP Experience Admission for endless Grand Mariner margaritas, unlimited queso and chips, a VIP Taco Happy Hour and Grand Mariner swag.

Although I am a bit of a margarita snob, the margaritas at the Tampa Bay Margarita Festival sound almost as good as our homemade ones. The margaritas at the Tampa Bay Margarita Festival consist of “fresh squeezed lime juice, pure cane sugar, fresh agave, and of course, the highest quality tequila and liquor”.

Yo estoy ahí. (I am so there.) And you can be too.

One lucky local Run DMT follower will win a pair of General Admission tickets to the Tampa Bay Margarita Festival on Saturday, May 25 from 2:00-10:00 pm.

“GA Admission gives you access to the Tampa Bay Margarita Festival with re-entry privileges and enjoy the live band on stage all day, beach volleyball, and more while you enjoy your margaritas!

Plus, the first 2,500 margarita lovers to redeem their tickets upon leaving the festival will receive a complimentary Budweiser/Cayman Jack gift bags filled with branded goodies and swags, in addition to one bottle of Cayman Jack Margarita (while supplies last).”

Contest ends 5/20 at 11:59 EST. Only Tampa Bay residents, please.

For more information about Tampa Bay Margarita Festival tickets, directions, cabana rentals and other event details, visit www.tampamargaritafest.com.

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Social Fresh East

Last Thursday and Friday, I escaped my humdrum SAHM days and entered the informative wonderland of Social Fresh. The amount of cutting-edge knowledge related to social media was seriously mind-blowing. Just when 1,862,421 people and I thought we knew it all, I learned it’s just the tip of the social media iceberg.

During the two-day Social Fresh conference held at the Double Tree Hilton Westshore, I sat alongside several of the Tampa Bay Bloggers and we had quite a presence. Approximately, two dozen Tampa Bay Bloggers absorbed boundless amounts of information to help us inspire and create a presence in the virtual world of social media.

Create to inspire, Inspire to Create was more than clever graphic. It represented the theme of Social Fresh. Speaker Spike Jones urged us to not seek influence, but create it. “Influence can be created, but passion cannot.”

Having followed Ted Rubin for years on Twitter, I already knew him to be a social media guru. When relating and creating for a brand (in my case Run DMT), it needs to engage. With my Run DMT or my Tampa Bay Bloggers Twitter personas, I need to build relationships with key advocates as to foster a Return on Relationship, a clever coined social media term by Ted Rubin and reference to a familiar business term, Return on Investment (ROI).

There’s no secret formula to social media success and marketing. Rather according to Edison Research’s Tom Webster, it’s about understanding data and having the capability to tell a story with the information collected. “Big data is the future. To say I’m not good with numbers means I’m not good with words.”

Furthermore, “The reason communicators become successful is by telling stories. We need data storytellers. There is way too much data repukery.”

Ian Schafer shared the four key cornerstones of effective mobile social content marketing:

Produce
Publish
Propel
Process

These four components can be developed by playing along with your audience. Think about what you say and when you say it. Feed you social media feeds with content that people will want to share, which is the measure of your success.

Ian’s presentation tied right into Spike Jones earlier message and why we should think about content differently. People typically share content for three reasons:

Ego
Information
Emotion

In my case, I am sharing my Social Fresh East experience for all three reasons. My ego has been inflated by all the knowledge I acquired with some of the country’s best social media experts. The information was too good not to share. The emotion I experienced was a direct response to the passion I feel for the world of social media and my role as a runner mother blogger.

Unfortunately, there were some downsides to my Social Fresh East experience. Due to a registration error, my nametag wasn’t quite as fancy as some of my colleagues. I also would have expected a QR reader on the nametags so we could use our smartphones to collect information.

For some unknown reason, we lost power as did most of the upper Tampa Bay.

SAHM duties called and I had to leave for a few hours on the second day for my daughter’s poetry reading. As her smile demonstrates, she doesn’t care about my desire for professional development, which is very few and far between in my full-time career as a SAHM.

Sadly with my walnut allergy, I will never know the deliciousness of a Double Tree cookie, nor will I ever win a night in a Double Tree.

Apparently, my tweets aren’t inspiring or creative enough to win a social fresh mug. At least, I learned the best way to improve my tweets to make them more inspiring and creative.

*Photo credit to Ballywho Social*

This August 22-23, experience Social Fresh West in San Diego. To learn more about the Social Fresh West social media conference agenda, the speakers and the venue, or to register, visit Social Fresh online.

LongHorn Steakhouse: Flavorful Under 500

Disclaimer: LongHorn Steakhouse provided me with a dinner for my honest review of the meal. The opinions shared are my own.

Between my sensitivity to MSG and my inability to stomach bad food, dining out has become more and more difficult for me. I have to admit, I was nervous to dine at a steakhouse, because steakhouses have terrible reputations for heavily seasoned food and MSG. Since my reactions to restaurant foods have become increasingly worse since my pregnancy with baby #3, I begged the kind people of Longhorn to allow me to bring my friend, Chrissy, along for the meal.

Honestly, it had been years (before children when I was a vegetarian) since I last stepped into a LongHorn Steakhouse and crunched on the peanut shells spewed all over the floor and I could only recall eating there once. Since then, Longhorn has cleared away the discarded peanut casings and with it, it’s rough and tough Texas décor. Although some of the western décor remains, the ambience resembles an affordable Capital Grille.

After our introductions, I felt compelled to inquire about MSG. The manager assured me that their food does not contain MSG and they take food allergies very seriously. He advised me to avoid eating only one item and I predicted his answer before he name it: the ranch salad dressing.

Everything else on the menu is made in house. In fact, everything is made fresh and the salads are hand-cut daily.

Though we were there to taste LongHorn’s Flavorful Under 500 menu selections, we sample a few house-special appetizers, such as the Chilled Shrimp Cocktail,

Spinach Dip,

Grilled White Cheddar Stuffed Mushrooms,

and the Wild West Shrimp. I photographed more than I ate to keep my calories in check.

Besides, I prefer to drink my calories.

I washed down the starters with The Perfect Margarita made with Sauza Conmemorativo tequila, Grand Marnier, Patrón Citrónge, Triple Sec, plus orange, lemon and lime juices. I could certainly taste the juices as it lacked that heavy corn-syrupy taste that many places use to mask bad margaritas. The Perfect was a perfect choice and almost as good as homemade!

There were two chicken entrées on the Flavorful Under 500 menu that piqued my interest. Chrissy and I decided to share our dinners so we could sample both. I ordered the Napa Grilled Chicken which served two breasts topped with artichoke hearts, portabella mushrooms, roasted tomatoes and a white wine herb sauce.

Chrissy ordered the Sierra Chicken, two fresh grilled chicken breasts topped with tomato-basil salsa. Both dinners came with steamed vegetables for sides priced under $15.00 and are relatively low-cost, low calorie plates that served flavorful, very filling meals.

Of course, everyone knows that you eat low calorie meals to save room for dessert. Even LongHorn Steakhouse realizes this fact, which would explain why the Flavorful Under 500 can be found above the desserts in the menu.

To finish off a fabulous dining experience, the LongHorn Dessert Sampler offered a shareable sampler of three favorites: Chocolate Stampede, Caramel Apple Goldrush and Mountain Top Cheesecake.

Those were all very delicious, however, the must-try fork-licking dessert for the night was the Salted Caramel Cake, which was totally worth blowing 500 calories just to taste a forkful. This same dessert would be served in a two-bite tall shot glass in a fancier establishment for the same price. I happily ate more than two bites because the sweet-salty combination and airy yellow cake fooled my brain into thinking it was a “lighter”, low calorie dessert. As LongHorn’s pride of the dessert, the Salted Carmel Cake stacked up to its name.

I appreciate the reintroduction to LongHorn Steakhouse and I would most certainly return for another Flavorful Under 500 meal. Affordable meals, low calorie family-friendly dining experiences without MSG and reactions are so hard to find these days. I already told my oldest carnivorous daughter that we would return for dinner on her birthday, since steak is always her requested birthday meal and LongHorn Steakhouse has a wonderful assortment of reasonably priced kids meals for children 12 and under, including a Kid’s Sirloin. Then, she can celebrate her big day by blowing out the candle in a slice of her own Salted Caramel Cake.

Tampa Theatre Presents Family Favorite Classic Movie Series – Now Playing: The Princess Bride

Disclaimer: My family and I received tickets to the Tampa Theatre’s showing of The Princess Bride in exchange for my review of our experience. I received no compensation and the opinions shared in this post are my own.

When the Tampa Theatre invited us to experience a presentation of one of our favorite films, The Princess Bride, I immediately responded, “As yooooou wiiiiishhhhh.”

I truly love the Tampa Theatre and now with their new Family Favorites classic movie series, my children will grow to adore and appreciate this historic treasure in downtown Tampa which has awed families for nearly a century.

As we waited for our tour to begin, we were told to “Watch for R.O.U.S. (Rodents of Unusual Size)”, which is very good advice, especially in a theatre that is rumor to be haunted, a fact I learned during our tour of the Tampa Theatre.

After our tour, I met the Dread Pirate Roberts in the concession line and I introduced myself. “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die”, though neither the Dread Pirate Roberts nor this gentleman did anything such thing. Thankfully, no one died in the concession line and we both lived to enjoy the film and our popcorn and beer refreshments.

Even without all the pirates and royalty roaming about, one step in the Tampa Theatre and you are instantly transported into an era of glamour and romance. With its draped balconies, gargoyles, angels without arms (Dr. Who would be pleased.) and rows of red velvet seats, it is the perfect setting for a magical tale such as The Princess Bride. Although we own a copy of the movie on DVD, no flat LCD television can compete with the large projection screen housed in this castle-like show palace atmosphere.

Prior to this showing, my youngest daughter did not recall the movie, but loved it all the same. Fondly, she will always remember the kissing tale, sword fighting fencing revenge story with great escapes, chases, a giant and true love all brought to life on the big screen by the miracle that is the Tampa Theatre.

The Family Favorite Classic Movie Series shows start at 2 p.m. on Sundays and run from April 7 – May 19. Tampa Theatre offers a discounted kids’ ticket price for this series in the hopes to appeal families looking for an affordable weekend outing in downtown Tampa. The films in Family Favorite Classic Movie Series include:

Babe (1995) – April 14
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) – April 21
Annie (1982) – April 28
The Muppet Movie (1979) – May 5
The Neverending Story (1984) – May 12
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – May 19

Tickets for the Family Favorites Classic Movie Series are $9 for adults and $7 for children at the box office or online ($2 convenience fee applies). The series is presented by Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, with media sponsorship by Tampa Bay Parenting Magazine. For more information, visit www.TampaTheatre.org.

Dough!

Disclaimer: The Tampa Bay bloggers were invited to sample Dough’s Sweet Peek. I was paid with pastries, gelato and coffee in return for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

Last Thursday evening, the Tampa Bay Bloggers and I had the pleasure to eat…er…I mean meet Dough, Datz’s quirky and whimsical new bakery!

Dough is the brainchild of Roger and Suzanne Perry, the duo behind Datz. In late 2012, when the Perrys learned that longtime Datz neighbor Kalupa’s would be closing, they jumped at the chance to take over the space and breathed a bit of a Datz life into the space with a total cosmetic overhaul inside and out. The new bakery specializes in house-made doughnuts, pastries and gelato and will soon roll out breakfast, lunch and dessert menus.

The available lunch menu, referred to as “lighter offerings”, simply means smaller portions than the super size portions we’ve grown to love from Datz. Dough’s lighter menu will still leave you fully satisfied that only Datz can do.

“Premium coffee drinks made with custom blends from Kahwa complement these pastries perfectly.” Allan sampled two drinks, an latte and an Americana. As Dough boasts, both were served perfectly by my coffee snob’s standards.

I went for the new and unusual latte, the Bacon Maple Latte. With a slight sweetness and small bits of smoky bacon sprinkled through the latte, ~~breakfast~~ brinner was served.

As for the doughnuts, generally they fall into two families: cake or yeast.

Cake Doughnuts – These denser doughnuts with a tender crumb get their rise from baking soda or baking powder. Their batter is very similar to what you’d use to make a cake. Common types include old fashioneds, cider doughnuts and most doughnuts that you would find superior for dunking, such as these fabulous chocolate chocolate cake doughnuts or these root beer cake doughnuts.

Yeast Doughnuts – These doughnuts seem lighter than air as they are leavened with yeast and have a softer consistency with lots of give. Common types include the classic glazed, honey glazed, filled doughnuts and long johns.

I have to admit the lighter, yeast doughnuts are my favorites. I love the fluffy, airy texture and this Lemon Custard was sublime. I learned that Dough crafts this lemon custard filling on the premise.

No matter your preference, all the doughnuts go fast! Arrive early because you doughn’t want to miss any flavor! Doors open for business (today) Monday, April 8th!

Dough is located at 2602 South MacDill Avenue, directly adjacent to Datz.

Visit the celebration at 10:00 a.m. for a chance to win a $500 gift card found in The Golden Whoopie Pie! House-baked whoopie pies will be given to the first 50 people present at 10 a.m. On our count they’ll bite into the pies and the holder of the pie with the hidden golden cream is the winner!

Photo credit to Kate Perry.

Save your pastry pennies for a sweet Grand Opening that you won’t want to miss!

“Dough celebrates its official Grand Opening with an exclusive party to benefit the Children’s Cancer Center. Attendees will be treated to an evening of tasty bites, desserts, and drinks from Dough and Datz and 100% of the proceeds will go to the CCC.”

Doors open at 7 p.m. (6 p.m. for VIP ticket holders) on Sunday April 21 at Dough, 2602 South MacDill Avenue, Tampa, FL.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit raising_dough.eventbrite.com.

For more details about Dough’s menu, renting the Copper Room for private events or Dough’s upcoming Grand Opening Gala, contact Datz Marketing Manager Kate Perry at kate@datztampa.com or 585-749-3905.

Pinning and Planning – March 31

Remember last week’s plan for a busy Spring Break week and healthy meals on the go? Well, let’s just say it was a good “plan”. More than I would have preferred, we did a lot of dining out last week. So this week, we’ll be back to business as usual with quick and healthy meals. I just need to finish off the last of the Easter candy first. And I need to do something with these colored hard boiled eggs.

For the next three weeks, hubby has a crazy traveling schedule. He flies to NY this week, Arizona next week and California the following week. Therefore, for my own sanity, dinners need to be simple and kid-approved this month. Healthy easy meals with little prep work and little clean up would be sublime.

Speaking of sublime, the Tampa Bay Bloggers and I are getting a sneak peek sampling at Datz Dough this week. Then on Saturday evening, the Tampa Bay Bloggers have been invited to tour Keel and Curley Winery. What did I say about quick and healthy meals?

Datz tweeted a great quote to me the other day.

I’ll drink some Keel and Curley blueberry wine to that!

Here’s our dinner menu plan for the week:

S – Easter Sunday

M – Skinnytaste’s Pasta with Asparagus

T – Avocado Egg Salad Sandwiches and Cream of Tomato Soup (Joy of Cooking Recipe, not the can)

W – Ground Turkey Chili

Th – Datz Dough and draft beer for dinner

F – Pizza

S - Keel and Curley Winery and Tour and Tasting

What food will you be enjoying in moderation? Are you starting April as a unhealthy fool or on the right healthy foot? Link up and share the meals you are pinning and planning this week.

Carmel Café Spring Sampling

Last Tuesday, Carmel Café introduced its new seasonal flavors just in time for spring and I was invited to the special sneak preview spring sampling.

The Spring Pea Bruschetta encapsulated spring with its presentation. The spring pea and mint combination released a fresh burst of flavors with each bite. The bright emerald color of the slightly smashed spring peas would make any other restaurant green with envy.

Offering more green for spring, the Ravioli Verde delivered a pasta dish that comforted my carb addiction. The light, creamy sauce truffle-infused beurre blanc complimented the spinach raviolis beautifully while piles of fresh peas, pea shoots portabella mushrooms and shaved Parmesan finish the dish superbly.

For the carnivores, Carmel Café has added a new Tunisian Chicken to its spring lineup. Roasted and grilled chicken breast glazed with a special blend of 14 spices demonstrates the Mediterranean uniqueness that separates Carmel Café from other restaurants. Once again, I couldn’t contain my carb addiction and excitement for fingerling potatoes served with the chicken.

Carmel Café has also added new wines and cocktails, such as the Strawberry Rickey made with gin and fresh strawberries.

My favorite cocktail was Carmel Spring Tea, which tasted very similar to a margarita with tequila, agave nectar and a splash of Moscato wine.

On any occasion, Carmel Café’ offers a wonderful selection of wine. For this spring sampling, we sipped suggested wine pairings perfect for each dish.

Since I prefer red wines and never been known to stick to rules and pairings, I preferred the Pinot Noir Acrobat King Estate Pinot Noir Oregon 2011 and being boorish, ~~asked for refills~~ ~~nursed it~~ sipped it with each sampling.

To view the complete seasonal flavors and wine pairings of Carmel Café this spring, visit Tampa Bay News Wire.

Carmel Café has several locations all over Tampa Bay. Visit carmelcafe.com for locations, hours and special events, such as the Prix-Fixe Dinner for 2.

Day Out With Thomas: The Go Go Thomas Tour

Thomas the Tank Engine rolled into Tampa Bay last weekend. My family and I had the pleasure to visit Thomas and experience the Day Out With Thomas: The Go Go Thomas Tour 2013.

Little Lion Man love trains and adores Thomas the Tank engine. Upon our arrival, he immediately spotted the parked trains at the Florida Railroad Museum, home to the Day Out With Thomas: The Go Go Thomas Tour 2013.

At the entrance each of my children we’re given an activity map. After visiting each station, a volunteer stamps each completed activity. Little Lion Man directed us which station to start at first for a chance to earn a set of Thomas stickers upon completing the activity map.

With a 2:15 departure time, we had plenty of time to enjoy all the stations and other fun activities, like climbing the old fashioned fire engine, the bouncy jump houses, mini-train rides, tractor-pulled hayrides and dancing at the children’s rock concert.

Once we boarded the Thomas, we enjoyed our quaint train ride through the Parrish countryside which vaguely reminded my children of the scenic towns of the Island of Sodor.

Little Lion Man couldn’t contain his excitement to be riding Thomas. As we clickety-clacked through the countryside, the conductors chatted with the passengers and distributed Jr. Engineer Certificates. Little Lion Man held his certificate proudly.

After our Thomas the Tank Engine train ride, we visited with Thomas to thank for him for another fine job and special special. Being such a huge Thomas the Tank Engine fan, Little Lion Man was thrilled to meet Thomas in person. Thomas seemed happy to meet Liam too.

Nearby, Sir Tophamm Hatt greeted all the visitors boarding and departing Thomas, but Little Lion Man didn’t want to stop for a photo opportunity and chat with Sir Tophamm Hatt. Soon after, he fell asleep and missed his chance with Sir Tophamm Hatt. All the Thomas the Tank Engine excitement was all my locomotive-lover could handle. Thanks to Thomas and friends, Little Lion Man will surely have train filled dreams.

Day Out With Thomas: The Go Go Thomas Tour 2013 will be stationed in Tampa for only one more weekend, Saturday, March 23 and Sunday March 24. Visit the Day Out With Thomas: The Go Go Thomas Tour 2013 site for ticket times and availability.

*I received Day out with Thomas: The Go Go Thomas Tour 2013 tickets for my family in exchange for my honest review. The opinions shared are my own.*

Social Fresh East 2013 {Social Media Conference}

Have you heard about the Social Fresh social media conference?

Me either, but after hearing all the buzz about this unique social media conference opportunity, I’m excited to join hundreds of local bloggers and social media enthusiasts in Tampa this April 18-19 to learn more about how to make my social media Run DMT world work better and more efficient.

Having attended several professional conferences during in my teaching days, attended a few during my blogger career life such as TechMUNCH and BlogHer and even hosted a few of my own Tampa Bay Bloggers blogging workshops, I am very familiar with the typical conference experience. However, Social Fresh offers a unique social media conference experience.

There are four reasons to make Social Fresh the social media conference you will want to attend this April.

A Single Track – It’s one room and one experience. There’s no guessing which speaker is best and making a “wrong choice”. There’s no divide and conquer approach with your colleagues and report back technique necessary. All the great speakers are in one room so you don’t miss anything.
No Panel – Rather than all four to five speakers on stage discussing relevant topics while trying to speak over one another, Social Fresh offers one speaker at a time to discuss a topic or topics relevant to them. The speakers own the value of their session and they own the value they bring you.
30-Minute Sessions – Social Fresh offers short concise sessions with experts and challenge their speakers to bring their best content, insights and tips. With 30 minute sessions, Social Fresh keeps the energy level high and keeps the pace of the day moving.
Group Learning – Social Fresh offers many opportunities for its attendees to network with the diverse audience it attracts to its unique social media learning environment. With working together opportunities, several breaks and an interact exhibit, Social Fresh fosters an engaging learning environment. Plus, after the social media conference the networking and learning continues at the Social Fresh Happy Hour events. Social Fresh also hosts a Facebook group for all attendees to continue sharing and learning. To take the learning one step further, Social Fresh offers Fresh Storm, a brainstorming media competition opportunity that provides hands-on, interactive learning and training with a real-world application of social media.

After hearing the testimonials and viewing the speaker line-up, I am really excited to be part of Social Fresh East 2013! The speakers at the Social Fresh media conference are some of the brightest and most influential people.

Having been part of the blogosphere for 5 years now, I feel I still have so much to learn to grow my Run DMT brand. I feel confident that I will leave the Social Fresh social media conference with some truly valuable information and some amazing social media network connections.

Join me at Social Fresh East 2013 this April 18-19 by registering online here. To learn more about the Social Fresh social media conference agenda, the speakers and the venue, visit Social Fresh online.

Random Thoughts about Color Me Rad 5K and Other Colorful Topics and Track Tuesday

I recently discovered the fun of girlie mud runs which opened the door to another type of adventure run: Color Me Rad.

Honestly, when I saw the huge billowing puffy clouds of color, I was a little apprehensive to say the least. It was more than a fear of a few muddy puddles and getting a little dirty, but more like a panic about breathing in a powdery colored substance with my asthma. Is that wise?

Having heard and read such great reviews about races involving color, I wanted to try it but I wanted to be safe. According to the Color Me Rad FAQ,

This is non-toxic, non-rash-inducing, Kroger branded, colored corn-starch. Subsidized by the government and processed in the good ol’ US of A, these blasts of starch will change your color, and your demeanor, but never your level of wellness.

So, I’ve decided to wear a face mask and a bandanna to prevent as much corn starch as possible from entering my bronchial tubes. You know, just to be safe. Because a face mask in May in Florida is smart. In other words, I’ll be able to breathe but I’ll die of a heat stroke. I kid. I kid.

My two daughters, a few of my friends and some of the Tampa Bay Bloggers will be joining me at the Tampa Color Me Rad 5K at the Florida State Fairgrounds this May, so stay tuned for those Rad race recaps! If you want to join us at the Tampa Color Me Rad 5K, register here. For more Color Me Rad locations, visit Color Me Rad online.

If you want to join the color fun but not the run, consider applying to be part of the Color Bomb Squad and volunteer at one of the Color Me Rad events.

Speaking of colorful fun, check out my cute BAMR band!

I absolutely love it! I wear it to work-outs at group fitness classes and I wear it under my helmet when I’m cycling.

It matches everything and it manages to keep the sweat out of my eyes. But what I truly love about this beautifully hand-crafted BAMR Band is what it represents. It’s more than a pretty headband boasting about being a bad ass mother runner (BAMR). With each BAMR Band purchase, a minimum of $1 from each band purchased goes to Every Mother Counts and that is pretty bad ass.

Follow BAMR Band on Facebook to view more designs and visit the BAMR Band Shop online to order yours. BAMR Bands make great Mother’s Day gifts for all Bad Ass Mother Runners you know.

Speaking of bad ass mothers, did you watch us on the Mom Squad yesterday? We discussed breast cancer prompted by this BuzzFeed infographic, which I find completely appalling.

Not the numbers or stats per say, but how the graphic displays the information: “Are We Fighting Breast Cancer All Wrong?” Could more research be done to find out the causes and links to breast cancer? Yes, however, mortality rates are down since 1975 because millions of women have been educated about self-exams and early detection. So BuzzFeed can bite my boobies.

You know what else bites? Doing speedwork by yourself because your running partners all flake on you. Nothing like a little public humiliation to force people into running with you! Humiliation is motivation! LOL

Not only did I run by myself, I also ran without music because I have no idea where my MP3 player went. UGH! I hate running without music!

Of course, since Chrissy wasn’t with me I was left to my own devices to figure out the interval setting on my Garmin and I totally screwed up the first 0.25 mile sprint. Oh well. But, I did learn that the loop that I’ve been running on in my own ‘hood for a couple of years now for Track Tuesday is the perfect “track”. And that made me proud even if my sprints didn’t.

Total Distance 3.53 miles

1.1 mile warm up
Time 11:25
Ave Pace 10:22

Lap 1 – 0.25 mile
Time 2:13
Ave Pace 8:55

Lap 2 – 0.25 mile
Time 1:59
Ave Pace 8:00

Lap 3 – 0.25 mile
Time 1:58
Ave Pace 7:54

Lap 4 – 0.25 mile
Time 1:59
Ave Pace 7:58

1 mile cool down
Time 9:58

Are you having a colorful week too? How are your workouts and training runs going? Link up and share.

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