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Continue reading →: Hapalua Half Marathon Recap!
Toeing the line of the Hapalua Half Marathon last Sunday, I was convinced that this was not going to be a good race. I was coming back from being sick; I hadn’t really trained; I just wasn’t feeling too confident. I’m starting to get used to the dreary, early-morning…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday Wisdom: Eating Well = Self Respect
They say that abs are built in the kitchen, but I argue that a healthy lifestyle is founded, rooted, and based in the kitchen. Not everyone has time or money or means to get to the gym – but everyone has a kitchen. We all have to eat. Making healthy…
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Continue reading →: New City, New Apartment, New Me
For the six years I’ve lived on the island, I’ve always been somewhat of a country girl. Even my dorms were out in the boonies! I’ve gotten used to crazy traffic, lots of driving, and the slow, patient beauty of the island’s east side. I fell in love with the…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Spartan Fit!
In case you haven’t noticed, I get down with plenty runs, races, and events. As a life-long athlete, nothing brings order and happiness to my life quite like training for something. It’s exciting, all-encompassing, and effects every aspect of my life: sleep, training, diet, nutrition, alcohol, and choices. When I…
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Continue reading →: Hemp Protein: Manitoba Harvest Review!
There’s few things I love more in the fitness world than plant-based protein. Soy, hemp, pea, brown rice, you name it – I’ve tried it. Much like their whey-laden counterparts, not all protein powders are created equal. And even less live up to the hype their fans give them…
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Continue reading →: Marine Corps Marathon 2016!
I’m stoked to announce that my father and I will be running the Marine Corps Marathon 2016 for the second year in a row! Last year, we embarked on our very first marathon for each of us and ran into every wall imaginable. Mental, emotional, physical, spiritual – you…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Keep Fitness in Your Life
Life is crazy: crazy-stressful, crazy-frustrating, crazy-difficult, crazy-exhausting, crazy-unpredictable. Maintaining your sanity is tough enough. Now that I’m in a different stage of life, I truly see just how real the struggle of day to day adult life can be. My love for health and fitness – and refusal to…
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Continue reading →: #BeFitAllYear !
One of the best things about being a blogger is getting to test out great products and share them with my friends, family, and followers. As a fitness junkie, it’s like letting a little kid loose in a candy store. I seriously dig trying out new products and learning about…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Body Love
This week I read an incredible article on FitSugar about body confidence, size acceptance and straight up happiness. In the cacophony of cleanses, fad diets and spotty nutritional advice all over the internet, it’s easy to forget the first step in making any positive changes in life: self acceptance.…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
Although I love writing and literature, I was wary about traveling to Shakespear’s iconic birthplace, Stratford-Upon-Avon. I pictured a cheesy tourist trap in the American sense, with tacky gift shops and crowded photo op’s. What we discovered after a gorgeous, idyllic drive from London to the (DIRECTION) was something entirely…
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Navigating motherhood, nourishing cooking, backyard gardening and running a small business with my little ohana on Oahu, Hawaii. Follow me as we build a suburban homestead, (try to) bake bread and steadily work towards a grown-at-home hale – all while intentionally raising kiddos and keeping our business growing.
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