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Friday's Featured Female – Debbie@LiveFromLaQuinta
Welcome to Friday’s Featured Female!
This weekly series features inspirational stories from admirable women. IMHO, it’s always good to be reminded of how strength, determination, hard work, heart and ingenuity can impact the quality of one’s life and I’m proud that these women will allow me to share their stories here. Today’s #FFF is the very amazing Debbie@LiveFromLaQuinta. As she’ll tell you below, Debbie and I didn’t know each other before Ragnar SoCal 2014 but another #FFF,
Melissa@MelissaRunningIt, brought us together. Debbie is a disciplined runner, a ridiculously sweet person and her unique dedication to both fitness and animals is admirable. As a runner and an example of being fit for life, Debbie has run 36 marathons (yes, 36!) and is a prime example of what you can do when you’re determined, dedicated and love health and fitness – there may be something to that vegan living! Learn more about this fabulous woman now!
Sooooo have you met Debbie?
Hi, I’m Debbie and I blog over at Live from La Quinta, where I write about running, fitness, and living a vegan lifestyle. I’m very excited and proud to be a Friday Featured Female. Melissa and I met when we were part of the same Ragnar Team back in April. There’s nothing like the shared experience of six dirty, tired, yet awesome women, together in a van for about 36 hours to create an unbreakable bond of friendship. I’m so happy that I’m going to get a chance to meet up with most of the women again in a couple weeks at Blogfest! Maybe we can discuss next year’s Ragnar (what do you say, ladies?). 
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Studio Metamorphosis Review – The Upscale Fitness Double Whammy
Maximum results with minimum effort is often the goal in life and in fitness. If you have Fitness A.D.D. like I do, you want to get sweaty but also achieve enough strength and cardio intensity in an hour or less. At Studio Metamorphosis in Pasadena you get can get a double whammy of Pilates and indoor cycling in a 50 minute session.
Studio Metamorphosis, Pasadena, CA.
Tunes For Tuesday – The 70's With Joe Jackson
Welcome to Tunes For Tuesday – The 70’s Edition for July!
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It’s the last week of Tunes For Tuesday 70’s Edition and today I’m featuring Joe Jackson. Not Michael Jackson’s father, Joe Jackson but the English singer-songwriter who was known for a few piano hits in the 80’s. Joe was often seen as sullen in his videos but I happen to like his music style. I see a lot of Joe Jackson in soulful piano performers like David Gray.
Today’s hit is “Kinda Kute” off of […]
What's Your Favorite Piece of Vintage Activewear?
When you are a fitness enthusiast, you amass a lot of activewear. Maybe you’re even like me and buy more activewear than any other type of clothing (even if you aren’t a fitness instructor). With all the different kinds of fitness activities available, the clothing options available are plentiful (and some are even reasonably priced) but we all have our favorites, the pieces of activewear that we keep no matter what. Even if we don’t use them, we have sentimental favorite pieces of activewear and today, I’m going to share mine but I’d really like to know about the one (or two) pieces of activewear that you’ve had the longest and why.
My two vintage pieces of activewear are my IronGirl cap and my Hind Leggings. Both of these items are over 15 years old. They were integral to training and completing my first and only 26.2 in 1999 (as you can see below) and I can’t bear to part with them.
Iron Girl hat, Hind Leggings, Iron Girl hat day of the San Diego RnR Marathon 1999 and the medal that reminds me of all the hard work.
Tunes For Tuesday – The 70's With The Cars
Welcome to Tunes For Tuesday – The 70’s Edition for July!
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The Cars hit it especially big in the 1980’s but their first two albums were actually released in the 1970’s. I think every nerdy guy in the universe had Ric Ocasek as their hero when he married Paulina Porizkova in 1989. It’s amazing to think that they are still married today!
Los Angeles radio loves The Cars so I’ve been hearing a lot of their music lately. It’s distinctive but in my mind still holds […]