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Stephanie! 💜✌🏻
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My LAST big long run of my training block! 22 miles!! I got it done this morning, and I did it at race pace! 😁✊🏻

I’m so ridiculously proud of myself. This has been the hardest 14 weeks of my life! 😭 But I’m HERE! Now it’s time to enter my taper. The Inaugural SATX Marathon is THREE weeks away! 😎

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Post-run fullbody selfie at the trailhead parking lot. I’m wearing a neon green running tank top, black shorts, a green and white running hat that reads GO ONE MORE on the front, and my Pride Goodr sunglasses. I’m also holding a Maurten water bottle with blue Gatorade in it. Stats from my run: 22 mi; 8:12 min/mi average pace; 3:00:28 moving time; 761 ft in elevation gain; 1,965 burned calories; 164 bpm average heart rate. Stats for my mile splits: slowest split 8:44 min/mi and fastest split 7:52 min/mi
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Btw if you ever wondered what firewheel seeds look like… 😁

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A bundle of firewheel seeds in my open palm. I’m working on sorting out more collected seeds to sow in my no-mow pollinator garden areas.
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Finished up sowing a good number of seeds I’ve collected off spent heads and seed pods while on runs! I planted some native seed mixes from Native American Seed back in early spring that yielded lots of blooms. The firewheels blessed me with MANY seeds! I got them all scattered and sowed. 😁✊🏻

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Five spent firewheel heads on my open palm that are full of seeds ready to be scattered and sowed!
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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AHEM WHY ARE U FLOWERING YOU ARE A FIREWHEEL AND IT’S NOVEMBER

EXPLAIN YOURSELF 🔥🛞🌱

(I’m prepping the no-mow areas today for fall time seed sowing)
A firewheel in full bloom with six mature flowers in one of my no-mow pollinator garden areas lol
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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What does it mean when you find TWO road pennies heads-up right next to each other while in your last tempo run of the training block? 🤔☝🏻

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Two pennies heads-up on my right-hand palm. My hand is covered by my purple running top long sleeve. It has one of those thumb loopies.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I’d also like to draw attention to the fact that I ran over 200 miles last month. 😗

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Screenshot from Garmin Connect showing my total running distance for October: 222.4 miles (7.2 mi average daily and 50.2 mi average weekly)
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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This week was a pullback! Finished off week 13 with a solid BUT SUPER WINDY 16-miler. 😁✊🏻

NEXT SUNDAY IS MY LAST LONG RUN OF MY TRAINING BLOCK AHHH (22-mi!) Then finally my sweet sweet taper! 😭 I’m so TIRED lol

I’m so mentally, emotionally, and physically fatigued I’m practically delirious lmfao 🏃🏻‍♀️😵‍💫
Post-run fullbody selfie at the trailhead. I’m wearing a turquoise long sleeve running top, black shorts, and my Pride Goodr sunglasses. I’m also holding a blue softflask water bottle. Stats from my run: 16.07 mi; 8:53 min/mi average pace; 2:22:42 moving time; 617 ft in elevation gain; 1,451 burned calories; 152 bpm average heart rate.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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BUT I did thrash a bunch of kids at a water gun game and won a Charizard plush. So you lose some and ya win some.
My victory Charizard plush at Six Flags lol
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Chin-down selfie of me sitting in the drivers seat of the parked Subaru. I’m wearing a grayish-blue long sleeve Coldplay tee and black jeans. I have a “I voted” sticker on the front of my tee. Most of my face is cut from the top frame of the photo for dramatic flair lol
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Worst photos ever because I took them through my home office window while at my desk…but! The yellow-rumped warblers (“butter butts” 😁) have returned to my neck of the woods! Their arrival marks fall time-for-real for me, even if we only have cooler weather in the mornings right now lol

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Adult yellow-rumped warbler latched onto the trunk of a large Mexican ash tree. Its back is to the viewer and its body is upright parallel to the trunk’s surface. Adult yellow-rumped warbler on the trunk of a large Mexican ash tree. Its body is now perpendicular to the trunk of the tree, back still facing the viewer.
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Got my 21-miler done this morning! 😁✊🏻

With the temperature in the 40s-50s F in the mornings, my pace has seen an incredible improvement over my summer paces. Today was an incredible effort!

Week 12 complete! I have TWO more weeks with my 22-miler on Nov 16th! Then finally! My glorious taper! 🙌🏻

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Post-run full-body selfie in the trailhead parking lot! I’m wearing black running shorts, a navy blue long sleeve Nike running top, a lime green and white running cap, and my Pride Goodr sunglasses. Included in the photo are screen grabs of my run stats from Strava: 21 mi; 8:16 min/mi pace; 2:53:39 total time. 617 ft elevation gain, 1,856 buried calories; 157 bpm average heart rate. My splits ranged from 7:16 min/mi to 8:44 min/mi with a starting mile of 9:11 min/mi.
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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I spent the afternoon at the kitchen table shelling out/organizing seeds from the native wildflower spent heads and seed pods/legumes I harvested while on my runs in the spring and summer! I was able to get through 3 paper sacks. I still have a few more sacks to go, then I’ll sow them very soon! 🌿🌱
A glass storage container full of dried legumes, seeds, flower heads, and seed pods on the kitchen table. On the table beside the container are several colored ziplock bags of organized seeds. Multiple colored ziplock bags with organized seeds.
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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We got the kitties a 5.5-ft cat tower yesterday.

Today is flea treatment day aka Fitz has to wear a baby shirt or he tears himself up trying to lick off the medication.

I came home from lunch with a friend to this.

I love my silly baby-shirt flea-medicated boy. 😭🥹

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The new cat tower. It is a typical carpet-covered tower. One of the legs to the tower is a rope-material covered scratching surface. The other legs are carpet covered. It has a lower bowl-like tier, then a cylinder-like hide with two exits on either end then a window hole in the middle, then a very high bowl-like tier. The tower is positioned in front of the kitchen windows. Fitz (tuxedo longhair cat) is curled up in the bottom bowl. He is wearing a green baby shirt. Closer view of Fitz curled up in the bowl tier. His baby shirt has woodland animals like deer, squirrels, and bears on it.
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Trick-or-treater goodies! I’m so excited, I hope we have a lot of visits! This is our first Halloween in the new house so here’s to hoping we see some great costumes tonight! 😄

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A stack of Halloween-themed Pokemon cards and individually wrapped Halloween edition Reese’s: the pumpkin, the ghost, and the bat!
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Weird, but I really missed my kitchen while I was away lmfao.

Ignore the white foldout table. We’re getting an actual kitchen island…just other house stuff took priority lol

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The kitchen counter space with the sink and range top. High/tall storage cabinets are fixed on the wall that go up the the ceiling above the counter space, as well as below the countertop. The kitchen sink has a window above it. A white foldout table is where a kitchen island should theoretically be. The kitchen is white with black accent and black and silver appliances. The backsplash is grey subway tile. A closer view of the kitchen sink. On the window seal I have several potted house plants including snake plants, pothos, purple heart, and philodendron.
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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We had backyard time. It was chilly and very windy.

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Fitz (tuxedo longhair cat) scratching on the trunk of a smallish sugar hackberry tree growing along the backyard fence line. He is in a blue Rabbitgoo harness and a neon yellow Flexi tape-type leash. Peep (chubby calico shorthair cat) is stretched out on her side and rolling while meowing on the backyard concrete slab. She looks very silly. She is in a purple Rabbitgoo harness.
October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Peep doesn’t even give a shit lmfao

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Peep (chubby calico shorthair cat) curled up on the top shelf of a cat tree against a kitchen window. She has her back facing the viewer and she’s looking over it nonchalantly.
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Reunited with my silly boy again after two weeks. 🥹💜🐈‍⬛
Fitz (tuxedo longhair cat) looking up at the viewer from inside a large plastic tote box and meowing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Me not having an original thought on Bluesky 😔✊🏻

(Monarch on Gregg’s mistflower)
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Monarch butterfly visiting a blooming Gregg’s mistflower in Barg’s backyard.
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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I got a sweet ass tee to add to my growing collection of sweet ass band tees. 🎸
Selfie of me holding up a tour tee for the Wombats at their outdoor venue (Scoot Inn, ATX).
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Also! Tada! My Pokemon Legends Z-A trainer sona! As always, I’m a Psychic-Type trainer 😁🔮 Which…lemme say, having a mono-Psychic team makes this (and pretty much all Pokemon games) hard as hell LOL

Meet Sophie, Ottilie, Louis, and Mathéo! Not pictured are Étoile the Starmie and Morgane the Delphox.
My trainer sona and their Gardevoir. My sona is masc nonbinary with purple hair and eyes and wearing black glasses, black skinny jeans, purple Converse-like hightop sneakers, a purple hoodie and purple puffer vest, and a purple hip satchel. My trainer sona and their Alakazam. My trainer sona and their male Meowstic. My trainer sona and their Espeon.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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American badger for @rosenlynx.bsky.social! Thank you SO MUCH for your support and even more so for your patience. 🥹💜 I’m so appreciative!

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Art of an American badger on a sage-green background.
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Takes me back to my grad school days tbh lol I did my thesis research project on bridge-roosting Mexican free-tailed bats that used a highway overpass much like this bridge on the running trail.

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A line of roosting Mexican free-tailed bats in a crevice on the underside of a highway overpass bridge. The bats are facing downwards with their faces in the direction of the viewer if looking up at them.
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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My running buddy and I found a bridge with some Mexican free-tailed bats in it while on our 15-miler this morning in Southern Walnut Creek trail

Listen to that chatter! Also CW for Stephanie voice jump scare lol

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October 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Easy-paced 15-mile run this morning on the South Walnut Creek trail! I didn’t even know this fantastic route existed until yesterday. Glad I found it! It was so beautiful!

Then I grabbed coffee at Flitch Coffee in east Austin. What a gem! 10/10 day.

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Post-run full body selfie in the trailhead parking lot. I’m wearing a neon green tank top with my running crew logo on it, black running shorts, and a lime green and white running hat. I’m also wearing a black running belt around my midsection and my Pride Gooder sunglasses. Post-run selfie at Flitch Coffee. I’m wearing a heather grey-blue long sleeve tee, my Pride Goodr glasses, and my lime green and white running cap. I have a latte in a black and white compostable cup.
October 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM