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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

The Return of the Running Mojo

Guess what?  If you drink water before you run, you'll be able to run and run and run.  It's like your body needs it or something.

Duh.  

I ran five miles yesterday without feeling like death (those five miles included some "nice" [read: evil, long] hills) and I completely attribute it to drinking a 16 oz. glass of water beforehand.  

Did I have to pee like a racehorse when I got home?  Yes.  Did that possibly make me run a little faster (and softer) the last mile or so?  Yes.

But that morning run tomorrow is looking a lot better than it was a week ago.  And that's progress. 

What are you making progress on?  Any Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals?  

harrison ford

blade runner

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3 responses to “The Return of the Running Mojo”

  1. Thomas Geiger Avatar
    Thomas Geiger

    Hi Kate,
    how did you bring your Instagram on the typepad blog? I didn’t find any possibility. Could you give me help? Thanks
    Thomas

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    Kate Bratt

    Thomas, there’s a site I found called “SnapWidget” (http://snapwidget.com/) that will give you code for an Instagram feed to paste into sites. (I’m sure I found this through one of the Typepad tutorials, BTW; I am not that savvy on my own.) If you have the Custom CSS feature, I just copied SnapWidget’s code and pasted it into a Custom HTML widget for my sidebar. Voila!
    Hope that helps!

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    Adidas Original Shoes

    Oh, and I was just reading your book reviews. We are often on the same page here.

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