Dirt in your skirt blog

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Posted on November 10, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Fear, fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of change, all these can drive and at the same time hold us back. Fear can be a motivator, this I know first hand. Fear guided me through my training for my first Tough Mudder and fear drove my training for......
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Posted on November 10, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Pain, physically we can all endure a lot, most of us can endure more physical pain than we know. Our crutch is not what happens when the muscles fire, its what happened between our ears in the mass known as our brain. For it is not that we can not......
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Posted on November 9, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Well somedays I get a workout in and others it just doesn’t happen. Today was a day it just didn’t happen after 9:00pm I finished my last meeting of the day and headed home. It’s Tuesday which is drill night at the fire department here in Killington. So instead of......
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Posted on November 8, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Sometimes it all comes together, recently it has seemed like the opposite but today the planets aligned in my favor and well in short my racing season is extending, that’s right my racing season is being extended by one race and all I will say at the top of this......
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Posted on November 7, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
What goes up, must come down as the song states. As the alarm sounded at 3:30am this morning I got myself up and moving as it was time to bring the sandbag off the mountain. The clocks changing could not have come at a better time! I drove myself over......