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Kelleys Island Race Day 2025
It’s June 1, 2025 - Kelleys Island, Ohio - Race Day! (Updated) Oh, I’m still working on my Italy stories (in my head and in an outline),...

Terri Tomoff
Jun 12 min read
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A 1980 Blast from the Track
Before the ubiquitous phone cameras, we poor souls carried albatrosses around our necks, AKA heavy cameras or DSLRs, to take photographs....

Terri Tomoff
Feb 252 min read
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Are You a Fan of Something? How about a Superfan?
The Paris Olympic Games, completed this past Sunday, is now a faded memory of wicked good worldwide athletic events. Fans came out of the...

Terri Tomoff
Aug 14, 20242 min read
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Paris Olympics, Are you Watching?
Amazing Olympics - and I've gone through phases of watching them a lot or very little over the last 40 years. After graduating from...

Terri Tomoff
Aug 4, 20242 min read
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Celebrating Ryan and Aunt Stevie's 5K Walk on Kelleys Island!
The pinnacle of the week+ on Kelleys Island culminates for us with the early June Sunday - Kelleys Island 5&10K races. Except when Ryan...

Terri Tomoff
Jun 3, 20242 min read
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Hoops, There it is!
Thirty-two years ago, I was enchanted by Duke University's Men's Basketball Team, with Christian Laettner and Grant Hill as the one-two...

Terri Tomoff
Mar 24, 20241 min read
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The Pickleball Pandas Had Fun!
Okay, we didn't win many matches, but we had a ball in our first league play with Peake Social at the PutAway in Millersville, Maryland....

Terri Tomoff
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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Getting in Shape?
January is the typical month of those overpromised resolutions to ourselves. I thought deeply about getting into better running shape...

Terri Tomoff
Feb 5, 20241 min read
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Pickleball Craze?
Have you played Pickleball yet? If you have liked it as I have in the last three months, you may now LOVE it like I do! When I was a...

Terri Tomoff
Oct 13, 20233 min read
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Spain Wins World Cup in 2023!
The Women's World Cup Championship game started promptly at 6:00 am for the Midwest and East Coast—Spain vs. England. I set my alarm for...

Terri Tomoff
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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One Photo - A Gift
Photos are life's treasures, especially when there are names and dates on the back of a hard copy of one. Digital photos are also great,...

Terri Tomoff
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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Cam Diamond Swim Meet!
Little kids were running all over the place and excited to swim in the 12th Annual Cameron Diamond meet at the Crofton Swim & Tennis Club...

Terri Tomoff
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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Terri & Ryan & The Diane's - Pickleball
As the game of Pickleball is sweeping the nation, our local swim and tennis club we belong to hosted a Pickleball/Tennis Adult Social on...

Terri Tomoff
Jul 23, 20232 min read
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Wimbledon’s New Royalty?
Perhaps a new tennis king (or prince due to his age) has emerged onto the royal court of tennis greats - all in the hard-charging, swift...

Terri Tomoff
Jul 16, 20231 min read
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Mother Nature Plays a Role in the 40th Annual Kelleys Island Races!
Since 1983, the KI Chamber of Commerce, or one of the local running clubs in Sandusky, Ohio, has hosted a spin around the island on the...

Terri Tomoff
Jun 4, 20232 min read
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