Mom Works It Out by Angela Gillis

Angela December 16, 2018

Meal prep with the pressure cooker

It’s meal prep Sunday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I haven’t been a productive human today. I enjoyed the peace and quiet in my house and napped on the couch and then watched the Cowboys lose a football game. This game was not a good look for my Dallas Cowboys, but I will still root them on. I haven’t been blogging so I know that you’ve missed my meal prep post. These posts are helpful not because you want to see what I’m eating, but so you can have different ideas on what to cook for your own…

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Angela December 15, 2018

Blogging into the New Year update

Good afternoon, everyone! I’m keeping my blogging streak alive. I barely got it done yesterday, but I’m still blogging strong today. This whole thing has me really excited and it’s really stretching my thought process for the blog. There have been some days it’s been hard to come up with something to blog about but I’ve come through in the pinch. I will only blog every day until the new year. This is just an exercise is helping me get into the routine of blogging. I will go back to this when I need to do it. It’s been a…

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Angela December 14, 2018

Cookbooks make great gifts

The holiday season is here and I know you’re thinking about gifts for your family and friends. I’m here to tell you that cookbooks make great gifts. Buy someone a cookbook because it’s not something people will normally buy for themselves. People do buy cookbooks but there are lots of really great cookbooks out there and we can’t buy them all. Ok, maybe it’s just me that goes to the bookstore on my free time to look at the cookbooks and leaves with nothing. I believe cookbooks are the gifts that keep on giving. Everyone needs a cookbook for meal ideas…

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Angela December 13, 2018

Rock n Roll races on SALE today

ALL Rock n Roll races are on sale right now! This is the chance to run a race in the destination of choice and there’s a distance for everyone. I ran my first Rock n Roll race in 2013 and I really liked the vibe. The races have changed over the years but I’m still running strong at these races. There are races all over the world. I’ve never run an international race but I’ve run my fair share of races in the United States. I love being able to visit different cities. The best way to see a city…

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Angela December 12, 2018

Rock n Roll San Antonio Marathon 2018

I’m wicked excited to be here writing about completing my marathon. This was a huge deal for me and something I knew I would put off until the “right” time so I just put one on the schedule. There is never a right time to do anything, and I’ve learned I just need to make some things work. If I would have waited until the “right” moment, the moment may not have ever come. I’m not going to bury the lead on the blog post. On December 2, 2018, I ran my 39th marathon at Rock n Roll San Antonio.…

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Angela December 11, 2018

Blogging into the new year

Did you catch my post yesterday about sharing your goals? If you didn’t go back and read it because now I’m going to share my goal with you. I did a run streak to help me get back into running so now I’m going to go into a blogging streak. It’s been said that you should focus on one goal at a time and now that the marathon is over, I want to focus on rebuilding the blog. I am sharing this goal with you for accountability. The plan is to blog every day to sharpen the saw and to…

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Angela November 2, 2018

Where have I been?

It’s been a minute. To be honest, I just haven’t been able to get s#!* together and make all the things happen. I wish I could paint this picture perfect life and just put on a happy face, but I can’t. I’m not one of those people. I’m a put my head down and just trudge through it all until things start to loosen up. Before I get too far into this post, I wanted to let you know about the next big thing. The Holiday Streaking Challenge It’s the holiday time so it’s time to get active. The holidays…

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Angela August 26, 2018

Marathon Training Week 3: Mollie Tibbetts on my mind

I know you’ve been waiting on pins and needles waiting for my marathon training of week 3, right? The marathon training plan called for four runs this week: 3 miles, 4 miles, 3 miles, and 5 miles. It was kind of a drop back week because I added a mile to my mid-week run. It wasn’t actually meant to be a hard week of marathon training. I don’t know why this week was so hard for me. I struggled to get out of bed. I struggled with every single run this week, but I’m thankful I was able to finish…

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Angela August 20, 2018

I quit the Habenero Hundred 20k

Yesterday I posted about the Habenero Hundred 20k and how I quit the race. Luckily, I was able to jump back in because I learned a lot from this experience. All week, I talked about this race. Excitement was in the air. I shed tears on Monday because when I went to sign up for the race the 20K was sold out and I had to “settle” for the 10k. Ten minutes before the race started, I was able to upgrade my race to the 20K. Ironically, I quit the race at the 10K mark and I just walked away.…

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Angela August 19, 2018

Marathon Training Week 2: A HOT week

Hey all! I hope you’re having a Happy Sunday. I’ve completed my second week of marathon training and I’m here to tell you about it. Now is your chance to read about week one of training. But first, I want to say, I’m not leaving the blog vacant on purpose. I have blog posts on blog posts, I just haven’t finished them. Today, I’m taking the time to work on the blog during nap time to get some of those posts finished. But now, you get to talk about my marathon training. I am pleased to say I had a…

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