You Gotta Have Grit

I’ve become a Women’s Health Magazine nut recently. I was reading an article on how to become a better runner. There was plenty of advice ranging from diets to excercise plans. There was one response that stuck in my mind. You gotta have grit.

Tenacity. Perseverance. Strength.

I dont know about you, but I have troubles getting up extra early in the morning to workout. I can set my alarm, set a second alarm, and even leave my phone across the room. I still refuse to get up to workout when the sun is just coming up. I NEED MORE GRIT. This week I’ve been telling myself that I just gotta do it. Gotta get up, gotta start my day off right. And then I do it.

Grit isn’t just for workouts. It’s for every day things. Just suck it up and do it… whatever it may be.

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Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum is what designers use as dummy text to fill in where there will be words, but they don’t know what it will be yet. “Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.” Lorem Ipsum is a great substitution for real text because the distribution of the number/variety of letters in each sentence is typical for regular text, and it flows nicely. Here’s the beginning of it:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

I found a bunch of funky ipsum-substitutes! Thought I’d share the love, and maybe you could use one of these to mix it up next time.

hipsteripsum.me (Hipster) Ex: Gluten-free pitchfork leggings, irony put a bird on it whatever aesthetic. Cred wes anderson four loko irony, craft beer VHS vice yr fixie. Sartorial fixie before they sold out keytar, jean shorts cliche vegan butcher pitchfork freegan art party cosby sweater wolf +1.

slipsum.com (Samuel L Jackson) Ex: Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show’s called a pilot. Then they show that show to the people who make shows, and on the strength of that one show they decide if they’re going to make more shows.

lorizzle.nl (Gangsta) Ex: Lorem i saw beyonces tizzles and my pizzle went crizzle dolizzle sit amet, boofron adipiscing fo shizzle. Dizzle sapien velizzle, crunk volutpizzle, suscipit dizzle, dizzle vizzle, check out this.

beeripsum.com (Beer) Ex: Oxidized Lauter Berliner Weisse. Lauter Tun Cask Carbonation Lauter IPA. Krug Clovelike Bock, Pint glass Yard Gueuze Becher Diacetyl Clovelike.

Chipotle even printed Lorem Ipsum on a to-go bag on my birthday this year. I love Chipotle.

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Run Across America

This March, I ran with an inspiring and selfless group of individuals as a relief runner for a Run Across America. This run was to bring awareness and raise money for The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults (UCF). 9 Rev3Tri runners, along with an amazing 3-man support crew, and many relief runners ran a course from Oceanside California, to Washington D.C. The group ran a total of 3,080 miles in 21 days. And yes, you read that right. 3,080 miles in 21 days.

I joined the group for the first 3 days of the race in California/Arizona and again at the finish line. I am so grateful to have been a part of something much bigger than myself.

Run Across America TShirt Design

Here is my entry while in Arizona:

Running through the night in the rainy mountains while the sun rose, and now running in the desert while the sun sets has been a serene and rewarding experience. I am so grateful to be part of Rev3′s Run Across America.

I’m running to bring awareness to the Ulman Cancer Fund. I think Rev3′s commitment to supporting and fundraising for the cause is inspirational. They have enabled me to push myself to run longer, harder, and more often.

I’ve become personally involved with UCF through Team Fight because I love everything the foundation stands for. I had skin cancer when I was 16 and didnt reach out to anyone for support. It would have been nice to know that others have gone through what I was going through. I am proud to say that my newly found love of running and involvement in UCF may help change someones cancer experience.

So I run for all those, friends and strangers, that are going through treatment. My next run is for you.

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