Author: Alexandra
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The Lost Roll
I decided to get back into film photography recently, though I can’t exactly explain why. I have my mother’s old Rebel G, the one she used when I was a kid to take those hundreds and hundreds of pictures of my brother and me. The batteries were dead when I tried to turn on the…
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Photo updates!
I’m incredibly excited to be able to announce that I’ve started selling prints available at aesizemo.darkroom.tech!
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Tracksmith Twilight Tank and Long Sleeve Review
Texas weather is difficult. It gets really hot, but whether it gets cold is up in the air. Last year, we had the mildest winter I can remember. This year, I got to experience running in 18º and strong winds. While I’m not particularly experienced with cold weather, the refrain I’ve always heard is that…
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Running Easy
For the last seven weeks or so, my Strava has been blank. I’ve still been running, but all the activities are set to private. I’m trying to run truly easy, and to subvert my ego, I’m making sure that nobody can see it.
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Buying Time, Buying Happiness
I recently came across an article about how people who “buy time” are happier than people who buy things. Buying time means that people pay to have other people do things for them that they don’t derive any pleasure from, like mowing the lawn and changing the oil in the car. When you buy time…
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Disney World!
There’s nowhere in the world more magical than Disney World. Doubly so when it’s decorated for Christmas. My mom’s side of the family had a trip planned for ages for this week, but I wasn’t able to take the time off work, and I was pretty bummed to miss it. My mom planted a little…
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Shots from the Fuji X100F
I’ve been fed up lugging my 6D around when I wanted a camera with me just in case. 95% of the time, my 35mm lens was attached, so I didn’t need a DSLR with an interchangeable lens. I wanted something smaller that I could take with me all the time. Something that could reasonably be carried in…
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Sometimes I Do Ill-Advised Things and it Turns Out Okay.
This isn’t a race recap, because no one wants to read about four miles of chatting with my only real life running buddy in the race and then nine miles of “woo buddy I’m in trouble.” I did run the DRC Half on Sunday, though, and while I won’t say it went well, it did…
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The Line Between Building and Destroying Fitness
Does anyone ever look at their training logs and go “aw yeah, I’m really training pretty stupidly right now, I’m gonna keep destroying my fitness until I get a stress fracture!” I really don’t think so. If we knew we were making training mistakes, I’d think most of us would immediately stop and reformulate. But…
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The Value in Kipchoge’s Positive Mindset
I was a little late to watching the joint Nike/National Geographic Breaking2 documentary. It had been out for a couple of days by the time I had managed to watch it, but waiting made me even more excited to watch it. So many of my running friends had said how inspirational it was, so I…