Today is the second anniversary of my first heart attack. August 14, 2011 was the beginning of my life with heart disease. But since I was back for round two in September 2012, it’s a little hard to know when to celebrate. Or what, or how. All I know is it is on my mind […]
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Aug 2013
In Two Years
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Aug 2013
Meet another member of the American Heart Association’s Minnesota Run with Heart team: Simon Gruber! Name Simon Gruber Age 28 Hometown/Current City Minneapolis Number of Marathons Zero. Favorite Race Completed Get in Gear Half Marathon, the farthest I’d ever run until a couple weeks ago. Favorite Location To Train I’ve done a lot of my mid-length runs […]
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Aug 2013
Meet another member of the American Heart Association’s Minnesota Run with Heart team: Andrew Shimota! Name Andrew Shimota Age 26 Hometown/Current City Minneapolis Number of Marathons Zero. Favorite Race Completed Dave Ryan 5K & Warrior Dash Favorite Location To Train Mississippi River Trails and Cedar Lake Trail. Favorite Running Pump-Up Song Music tastes are all over the […]
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Jul 2013
Meet another member of the American Heart Association’s Minnesota Run with Heart team: Sara Shaw! Name Sara Shaw Age 31 Hometown/Current City Davenport, Iowa – Quad Cities Number of Marathons Zero. This will be my first! Favorite Race Completed I run a 7 mile race every year in my hometown–The Bix 7. This year will be #21! […]
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Jul 2013
I am running with the American Heart Association’s Minnesota Run with Heart team in the Twin Cities Marathon this year (don’t worry, I’m running the doctor-ordered 10 mile distance). I’m happy to be working with the AHA and the Twin Cities Marathon to raise awareness and funds for heart disease! From now until race day, […]
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Jul 2013
I met Maria at the first Go Red for Women event that I spoke at, last November. She came right up to me and said she’d been reading my blog and wanted to meet me. (Fellow bloggers know how thrilling that is!) We talked for a while and she asked about my kids and how […]
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Jul 2013
It’s summer, it’s running season, and I’m really happy to be working with the American Heart Association’s Minnesota Run with Heart team this year. It’s the first time the AHA has fielded a charity team for the Twin Cities Marathon and it is, ahem, a cause after my own heart. Over the next 10 training […]
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Jul 2013
Dear friends, family & readers, This is pretty cool: The American Heart Association-Minnesota has, for the first time, teamed up with the Twin Cities Marathon to field a charity team! Running for heart disease. Not sure it could get more perfect for me than that. I signed on right away, and then the AHA asked […]
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Jun 2013
Last week the American Heart Association-Minnesota held a volunteer appreciation event — an after-work happy hour in a pretty hotel lobby bar. I went because I’m a volunteer and because they gave me a Volunteer Impact Award for my work this year as Go Red spokesperson, ambassador, speaker, and even for this blog. It was […]
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May 2013
Now this is exciting. Running friends, get your GU and Body Glide ready, because it’s time to train for a marathon! This year, for the first time, the American Heart Association of Minnesota will field a charity team for the Twin Cities Marathon. Yours truly is serving as the honorary chair. (Honorary for a lot […]
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