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	<description>Trying to grow as an individual while growing connected.</description>
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		<title>6/27/09 &#8211; The Big Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was the hike event, and it was great!  Most of the Team in Training events involve many chapters, and can have hundreds or thousands of participants.  But this one was an experiment in doing a local event &#8211; it included only our chapter and wasn&#8217;t far from home.  Our chapter&#8217;s staff did a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=99&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6/14/09 &#8211; Excited about the event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our event is only 2 weeks away, and I&#8217;m getting pretty excited about it.  We&#8217;re hiking together in the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, and it promises to be a very beautiful day.  I&#8217;m trying to get my gear together and make sure everything is ready.
We&#8217;re making final plans as a group too &#8211; choosing a roommate, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=97&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5/31/09 &#8211; On an upswing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are definitely looking up!  Once the semester ended and grades were turned in, I felt a huge relief.  Work is still busy &#8211; I have a number of end of academic year or end of fiscal year projects.  But I&#8217;m starting to feel like a human being again, getting over the exhaustion.
I haven&#8217;t managed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=95&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5/9/09 &#8211; Should I stick with it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend is a huge crossroads for me as far as this Team in Training &#8220;project&#8221; is concerned.  This weekend we are asked to recommit &#8211; to sign a paper saying we will participate in the hike event.  The reason this feels so huge is that we also provide a credit card, and if we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=93&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5/2/09 &#8211; Serious problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, my body is betraying me.  I had to turn back from today&#8217;s hike.  We hiked about 20 minutes on flat ground, and I couldn&#8217;t go any further.  I felt like I couldn&#8217;t lift my legs, and my chest was tired so I couldn&#8217;t stand upright.  What the hay???  I haven&#8217;t experienced anything like this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=91&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://makingstrides.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/5209-serious-problems/</link>
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		<title>4/25/09 &#8211; Migraine again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so frustrated.  I work at a college and I&#8217;m teaching a course this semester, so right now things are crazy busy.  And when I&#8217;m stressed and tired, I start getting migraines.  Friday evening I prepared all my stuff for our Saturday hike.  Then Saturday at 5am I woke up with all the normal signs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=88&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4/18/09 &#8211; Fundraising instead of hiking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I had to be out of town on Friday, and knew I wouldn&#8217;t be back in time to hike on Saturday.  I was really sorry to miss another weekend of hiking &#8211; it&#8217;s my therapy!
But, I turned the loss into an opportunity and worked a fundraising table we had at EMS in Lancaster.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=83&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4/12/09 &#8211; Rainy Easter weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, because of the holiday, we had no organized hike.  On these weekends, we manage our own hike training, and lots of people in the group make their own hike plans.  But it was a rainy weekend, and we went out of town for Easter, so I didn&#8217;t end up hiking this weekend.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=80&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4/4/09 &#8211; Revisiting our first hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we hiked again on the very first trail (path?) we hiked back in February.  It&#8217;s a paved, fairly flat 3 mile loop in a park.  In February it was covered in ice.  Today, it was like hiking in a different park, and that was a real eye-opener.  I went in thinking I had hiked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=70&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://makingstrides.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/4409-revisiting-our-first-hike/</link>
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		<title>3/28/09 &#8211; How hiking feels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we hiked another part of &#8220;the AT&#8221; called Hawk Rock.  This one was another difficult, long hike, with a steep incline in the first mile or so.  Unlike last week, I felt fresh and ready for this hike, and it was an exhausting but wonderful experience.  And it was a little lesson in perception.
 
As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=makingstrides.wordpress.com&blog=3987555&post=66&subd=makingstrides&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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