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Location:

Tallahassee,FL,United States

Member Since:

Jun 24, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

PRs:

Mile- 5:27 Breakfast on the Track, August '09
5k- 18:59 (6:07)  Tails and Trails, May '09 (And two more times! GRR!)

8k- 33:08 (6:39) Sweetheart 8k, Feb '11

10k- 41:38 (6:42) TRBC, March '09

15k- 1:02:46 (6:44) Lake Caroline 15k, Nov '08

Half Marathon- 1:36:58 (7:24) Hoover Dam Half, Oct '09

Marathon- 3:37:16 (8:17) Mississippi Coast Marathon, Nov '08

Short-Term Running Goals:

Help my knees help me.

Long-Term Running Goals:


Personal:

Moving to Knoxville this summer. Hooray for being in a place with a running community! 

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New recipe that is so good I have to share. Even better than the muffins, if you can believe it.

 

Baked Chocolate-Stuffed Strawberries (haha yeah that good)

All you need: Strawberries, chocolate chips, optional whipped cream 

 

Take your strawberries and pull off the top. Use a small spoon (I actually use a knife carefully) and scoop out some innards . On the bottom the the strawberry, take a knife and cut a small amount of the tip off; enough so that the end is flat and can stand up on its own, but not enough to cause a hole to see through.

Stuff the strawberries with chocolate chips. I think minis work even better because they melt thoroughly. You can also use chocolate shavings. (Optional: Sprinkle with sugar before baking. I don't think it's necessary.)

Stand them on a baking pan and bake in a 400 degree oven about 10-12 minutes or until strawberries look softer and chocolate is melted.  

Serve warm with whipped cream or cool whip. Yummmm.

 

Credit: Rachael Ray 

 

 

 

Also in non-running news, this is what I have been working on for the past year. Just a rough draft. 99% of hurricane research is done using a data set 1850 til now. My goal is to reconstruct past hurricane tracks that have been cited in newspapers, ship logs, etc., by basing them off of modern tracks that hit similar areas. This is a map of the 1766 hurricane season according to the tracks I digitized. I'll stop talking because I am sure no one is reading this, plus it probably only makes sense to me. But this is what I do. These tracks (although only estimates) have never been seen before! 

 

 

Comments
From Marion on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 21:54:34 from 71.213.114.30

Holy CRUD Kelsey! They sound great! I am going to have to try them as soon as the strawberries are back in full force.

How are you doing these days?

From kelsey on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 22:03:06 from 98.230.3.218

Haha well I will send you a reminder later in Spring. We had some pretty decent ones here so I went for them. I made these for dessert tonight.

I am doing well, but of course school is driving me nuts... 50% because of the cray workload, 50% because I just want to be DONE! But I don't want to be in the job market right now anyway, so I guess I am better off!!! I am just working on being thankful for the many many many blessings in my life... I definitely don't have the right to complain!

From Nevels on Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 19:50:48 from 75.143.74.136

That's a cool research area. Where are you getting your hurricane data from that era? Ships' logs?

From kelsey on Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 19:59:37 from 98.230.3.218

Thanks! Yup, I am using a data set that someone else put together based on ship logs and newspapers. It has 373 storms from 1700-1850. Each storm has a few points it hit, like "Puerto Rico and Florida," so I am making tracks based on what recent storms did that hit both of those points. It's pretty exciting in a nerdy way!

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