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Continue reading →: My First Half Marathon!
On a gloomy island Sunday,I did it. I finally popped my half marathon cherry! I wasn’t prepared, properly trained or confident, but I made it happen. I’m proud to say that I ran the Hibiscus Half Marathon, a handsome run that weaves along the coast on the island’s southeast side, and finished…
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Continue reading →: Spartan Race Memorial Day Sale!
Most of us spend Memorial Day weekend bbqing at the beach with good friends & beautiful weather. It’s the official kick-off towards a lazy, sunny summer – where days are short and worries are few. Reebok is making the weekend even better by sporting their own summer sale – up…
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Continue reading →: We All Need REST.
Rest: to cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh oneself or recover strength. A lot of us think of rest as a negative thing; an unproductive ebb in our daily grind that we’re forced to take when we’re completely exhausted. We hate resting. We loathe rest days. We…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Recovering from Injuries
There’s a running joke among my friends that every time I sing up for a race, I get injured. Sure enough, I signed up for the all-women Hibiscus Half Marathon at the end of May, in preparation for my full marathon looming in October. Sure enough, the next day I…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday Wisdom: Kindness
Kindness: the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. In modern society, we’re all searching for a better life; practicing meditation, yoga, cleanses, fasts, and delving into the beliefs of karma and cosmic connections to one another. Yet, kindness has got lost in the shuffle. Differing from a single…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Morning Workouts
To the a.m. exercisers, the sunrise yoga peeps, and the early birds – you all know the struggle. The real challenge of clocking in a morning workout isn’t setting alarms or going to sleep super early. The struggle is in dragging ourselves out of our warm, cozy beds. I mean,…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday Wisdom: Making Peace
In today’s world, it’s easy to feel helpless. Replaceable at your job, unappreciated in your relationships, trapped by bills and ills and the suffocating lull of daily life. Coupled with a constant stream of perfectionistic ideals on social media, we can feel inadequate, unimportant, and above all, powerless. Thankfully,…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday Wisdom: We Are What We Think
You don’t have to watch The Secret or dabble in new-age philosophy to recognize the connection between what we think and what manifests in our lives. We all know that one negative coworker/friend/family member that always gets the short end of the stick, and it matches up with their…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Stay Motovated!
I have a hard time connecting the hours I work to the paycheck I earn at the end of the month. It’s tempting to skip out & bail, but then I don’t get a great check! Fitness, I think, works in a similar way. It’s difficult to connect the efforts…
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Continue reading →: 30-Day (mostly) Raw Vegan Challenge
I’ve pledged to go vegan for the next 30 days. In addition to avoiding meat, I’ll be nixing dairy, eggs, honey, and lesser known animal by-products, such as confectioner’s glaze (used in jelly beans & other treats) and isinglass, or fish bladder, used in the production of beer. I’ll also…
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I’m Nicole
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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