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Tour de Lance

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PARIS (July 25) — Lance Armstrong rode into history Sunday by winning the Tour de France for a record sixth time, an achievement that confirmed him as one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. His sixth crown in six dominant years elevated Armstrong above four champions who won five times. And never in its 101-year-old history has the Tour had a winner like Armstrong – a Texan who just eight years ago was given less than a 50 percent chance of overcoming testicular cancer that spread to his lungs and brain.

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Update

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Well, I managed to sell my house and get the $$$ I wanted for it. I would have preferred more, obviously, but I’m happy with what I got. Last weekend Mom and I moved a lot of the smaller stuff into my apartment, and Friday the movers are going to get all of the big stuff. Then I close on the 28th, get my check, and then can pay off my car!

I also got the results back from my latest cancer checkup, and my tumor markers are lower than they’ve ever been. It doesn’t make much difference as long as they’re not moving upwards, but lower is better 🙂

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Zoloft, Lexapro, Paxil and running

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I started taking Lexapro (an anti-depressant) last April when I was dealing with fears of having cancer (little did I know I was *right*). Anyway, now that I’m a year out from my diagnosis and no longer worrying as much about having a recurrence, I’m trying to get off of it. I’m slowly tapering off, but even so it’s leaving me in a foul mood most of the time.

In some good news, I ran another 5K Saturday, and did a little better than last time. I’m still slow as Christmas, but at least I’m progressing:

April 3 – 37:16
May 23 – 36:34
July 3 – 35:01

These people who can run it in 15 minutes just amaze me. Maybe someday. My goal was to run in the Nashville Marathon next April, but I think I may have to settle for the half marathon, and push the full marathon back another 6 or 12 months.

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Another fun waste of time on the internet…

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