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Fit Five Friday – Things that Motivate Me

13 January, 202320 April, 2023 RenéeFit Five Friday14 Comments

Hooray! It’s time for Fit Five Friday! And what’s the best way to start out the year? Join us in the link up! Your five amazing hosts – me, My First 5K and More, Running With Attitude, Runs with Pugs, Zenaida are here to make your…

Runner’s Spotlight: Meet Missy

15 May, 201915 May, 2019 RenéeFun Stuff25 Comments

This week I’m talking to Missy; she started running after she’d lost some weight to then further supplement her weight loss. She’s lost 90 lbs in total! While I hadn’t lost any weight at all (I just started at 100KG…

Hey! I’m Renée, 55 years old; I started running just to lose some weight and in the meantime found out that running changes pretty much everything. My favorite running partner, Ron (56), started running just to support me, but he found out he actually had a talent for it and consequently has run over 28 marathons in the span of 6 years with 3 of them being World Majors.

This blog is about running, fitness, mental health, travel and, though I am trying to get out of diet mentality, I may still talk about weight/ weight loss. Sometimes a combination of all, sometimes not. And not always in that order.

Running and fitness keep me sane, travel is my passion.We live in the Netherlands – Mr Pie is Dutch and I am American and Dutch, now living here over half of my life.