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I'm Becky, 23 year old Florida native living in Colorado. Marathon runner trying to get back into running, I also do capoeira on occasion and like to go on adventures sometimes. I'm a certified EMT (but still trying to get a job as one). I like to lift, and am currently working on "getting back on the wagon" for weight loss. I originally started this blog and lost 25 pounds and kept it off for a long time, then life happened and I'm up higher than my original starting weight.. I am pretty ambitious and am signed up for some races this year to boost my motivation, including a half that goes up a 14er, and a 50k in the mountains.

This is not a weight loss blog, it's my blog and I talk about whatever I want including weight loss and food and boys and running and drinking and lots of pictures of myself. I have little to no filter when it comes to the things I say, I am kinda opinionated, so sometimes I'm awkward, but I'm pretty awesome.


Height: 5'1"
HW: 174 lbs
LW: 142 lbs (Sept/2011)
CW: 172.4 lbs (3/11/13)
Goal: to run fast and be healthy.


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Things they don’t tell you when you sign up to give out medals at the finish line at a 70.3 triathlon: 1. Medals can get HEAVY. 2. You’re more than likely gonna get sunburned. Even if you wear sunscreen. Because when 10-15 people at a time are coming in at once, there isn’t time to reapply when you’re one of the 3 medal givers. 3. And your sunburn is gonna be awkward from carrying medals.  4. You’re occasionally gonna have difficulty differentiating if the person in front of you is bending forward for you to put the medal on them, or if they’re cramping up or gonna puke in your direction. Either way, always stand a little bit to the side. 5. Sometimes, at the end of the race people get so upset with their results they end up refusing to receive their medals. Things I learned simply from observing people at the finish line: 1. Pros are more likely to fall over when they cross the finish line than age groupers. 2. There are lots of badass people in the world.  3. Man, do those tri suits show sweaty salt lines.  4. Pros get blisters, too (The pro female winner had huge bloody blisters on the back of her feet. She had to take off her shoes during her interviews and was dumping water on them while she was standing there).  5. Ice water poured on your back at the end of a really hot race (temps got up to the mid 90s at one point) feels FANTASTIC.  6. You get lots of free stuff when you volunteer at big races like this.  7. Did I mention there are LOTS of badass people in the world? 

Things they don’t tell you when you sign up to give out medals at the finish line at a 70.3 triathlon:

1. Medals can get HEAVY.

2. You’re more than likely gonna get sunburned. Even if you wear sunscreen. Because when 10-15 people at a time are coming in at once, there isn’t time to reapply when you’re one of the 3 medal givers.

3. And your sunburn is gonna be awkward from carrying medals. 

4. You’re occasionally gonna have difficulty differentiating if the person in front of you is bending forward for you to put the medal on them, or if they’re cramping up or gonna puke in your direction. Either way, always stand a little bit to the side.

5. Sometimes, at the end of the race people get so upset with their results they end up refusing to receive their medals.

Things I learned simply from observing people at the finish line:

1. Pros are more likely to fall over when they cross the finish line than age groupers.

2. There are lots of badass people in the world. 

3. Man, do those tri suits show sweaty salt lines. 

4. Pros get blisters, too (The pro female winner had huge bloody blisters on the back of her feet. She had to take off her shoes during her interviews and was dumping water on them while she was standing there). 

5. Ice water poured on your back at the end of a really hot race (temps got up to the mid 90s at one point) feels FANTASTIC. 

6. You get lots of free stuff when you volunteer at big races like this. 

7. Did I mention there are LOTS of badass people in the world? 

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  1. trivialbob said: Becky, that was an interesting post. I liked your observations.
  2. pattidoestris said: That’s so awesome!
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