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Traveling the world one race at a time. World Marathon Majors 🌟🌟🌟 Find your passion and run with it!
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Coming at you with this #MedalMonday post! Did I have a sense of accomplishment? Of course! Did I have fun? Sure. Will I do it again? Not all four in one weekend. If #rungasparilla is on your bucket list, do it! I'll probably be back for the 15k and 8k challenge one day. I'll be back, Florida!

Only on race day. Up since 4:30a. Like my "smile"? #wanderingrunner #15k #5k #runnersofbluesky

Spending my birthday weekend in Tampa. Running the Mich Ultra challenge for #rungasparilla. Meeting the weekend crew from WFTS. Staying with a best running friend. Times like these make me feel like the luckiest girl in the world. #wanderingrunner #13point1 #runnersofbluesky

I literally *want* my tax dollars to go to national parks, scientific research, conservation, and helping marginalized people, among other things. In case that wasn’t clear. @altnps.bsky.social

With mutual respect for and mutual faith in each other. This is all I ask. All I need. And yet, it feels like no man is willing. #single #singlemom #selflove #singlemomlife #singleforlife

In 1968, he was the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the United States with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

#singleforlife #singlemom #selflove #singlemomlife

Henry Highland Garnet was an American abolitionist, minister, educator, orator, and diplomat. Having escaped as a child from slavery in Maryland with his family, he grew up in New York City. He was educated at the African Free School and became an advocate of militant abolitionism.

#single #singleforlife #singlemom

Clifford Leopold Alexander Jr. was an American lawyer, businessman, and public servant from New York City. He first served on the National Security Council during the Kennedy administration, before becoming chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1967.

#singleforlife #singlemom

On February 9, 1995, Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights. Selected by NASA in January 1990, Harris became an astronaut in July 1991.

Harry Sylvester McAlpin Jr. studied journalism and advertising at the University of Wisconsin. After graduating in 1926, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked as a reporter, editor, and office manager for the Washington Tribune.

Escaping to a place without fear and hate and reminding myself the amazing humans can create. I'm going to start coming here more often. While it's still here. #planetarium #space #finalfrontier #astronaut #stars

Student protests in Ohio’s Kent State University in 1968 led to the establishment of Black History Month. This student activism helped to establish Black Studies departments and fight for equality for Black individuals, both on campus and in wider society.

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles in singles and two in doubles. Ashe was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team.

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron, considered one of the greatest baseball players in history, was born today 1934 in Mobile, Alabama. He played 23 seasons mostly as a Milwaukee/Atlanta Brave & broke the long-standing MLB record for career home runs held by Babe Ruth & remained career leader for 33 years.

Percival Prattis was the city editor of the Chicago Defender, the most influential African-American weekly newspaper in the U.S. at the beginning of World War I. Later, he spent 30 years at the Pittsburgh Courier, another influential black paper, rising up to become executive editor.

While working in Pittsburgh as a porter, Alfred L. Cralle noticed that the popular treat ice cream was difficult to dispense. It stuck to spoons and ladles and usually required two hands and at least two implements to serve.

My son's birthday present. He better love me forever. We brought a friend of his as well. It's been nice hanging with the boys today. #RoyalRumble #WWE

I'd laugh. But I feel like this is a plausable explanation. #FridayVibes #Fridayfunny #FridayFeeling

Sublime!! #Barbiemovie #JustKen

With all the apps, and seminars, and speed dating, and everything. It's a $9 BILLION a year business. And yet, here I am wondering exactly what am I doing wrong. #singleforlife

It's National Plan A Vacation Day! I'm actually going a little light this year. 😁😁😁 #wanderer #holiday #gasparilla #stpatricksday #berlinmarathon #DisneyFamily