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Kelsey Renae
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My Christmas present 🫣🥰🥸🤓!
#running
Two white angular-bent lines that create a somewhat hexagon swirl. Under that says “Portland Marathon” also in white. Under that in teal is “October 4, 2026.” The background shows only a bit of the popular stag sign that is seen on Burnside bridge in Portland, Oregon.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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We got to see My Favorite Murder last night in war-torn Portland! (We had an amazing time!)
#myfavoritemurder #portland #oregon
A stage, lights are down, showcasing blue lights that are lighting up the back of the stage behind the screen that has an image of a red and black image of a stadium with the text “My Favourite Murder Portland Live.” In front of the screen are two chairs with a table in between on top of a rug. A group photo of five people: my sister, who is taking the photo, her face is in the bottom left hand corner. My dad, who is father up on the left side. My mom, who is next to my dad on the right. I am next to my mom and slightly in front of my mom. My sister’s friend’s face is near the bottom right corner.
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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My first tattoo!
Perfect timing for spooky season 👻!
#tattoo
The back of my right arm (the tricep, just above my elbow) with my first and brand new tattoo! The tattoo is an outline cartoon ghost (that’s smiling) holding a cat that’s facing forward and a puppy that is sitting on the right side of the ghost looking up at the ghost.
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I have become the person that gets excited about trying cotton candy electrolytes.
A LIQUID I.V. bag (the top half is a dark or navy blue and the bottom half is mostly a teal, but there is a small chunk of the left side to be a light-blue that has an image of blue cotton candy on a paper stick and a pink cotton candy on a paper stick.) It is the cotton candy flavour. It has 8-blue cotton candy sticks and 8-pink cotton candy sticks.
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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My 10th parkrun 🎉!!!
#running #parkrun
I am smiling while jumping where both my legs and to some degree bent. My left leg is properly bent so my foot is directly under my bum, where my right leg is less bent and my foot is lower than my left leg. My arms are stretched wide up and outwards with my hands flat and straight out. I am wearing: my pink baseball hat, black over-the-ears bone-conducting ear phones, a short-sleeve lavender shirt that has a white Adidas logo in the top left, a bright pink/red “belt” around my hips, black capris, and black with white soles running shoes. The background is trees, green shrubs, and a cement path. I am smiling mid run where I have lifted my arms, bending them so my forearms arms are meeting in my middle (face level) where my hands are touching at my fingertips, my hands are then bending downwards to fit under my chin. (Think a very childish pose.) I am wearing: my pink baseball hat, black over-the-ears bone-conducting ear phones, a short-sleeve lavender shirt that has a white Adidas logo in the top left, a bright pink/red “belt” around my hips, black capris, and black with white soles running shoes. The background is trees, green shrubs, and a cement path.
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Mary S Young parkrun 27 September 2025
#parkrun #running
I’m mid run facing forward towards the photo. My arms are in t-Rex mode with my left arm is twisting slightly inward across my torso while my right is slightly pulled back towards the side of my right side of my torso. My right foot is in front and slightly lifted from running and my left foot is mostly hidden behind my right foot and leg. I am smiling, wearing: my pink baseball hat, sunglasses, black over-the-ears bone-conducting ear phones, a long sleeve grey shirt that says “Portland State” though the sleeves are rolled back to my elbows, black capris, and blue and orange running shoes. The background is trees, green shrubs, grass, and a bark path.
September 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Merry Halloween season!
#halloween
A Halloween wreath where the wreath itself is black with orange and red leaves, silver and glittery twigs, orange and glittery twigs with round balls,black twigs, and pumpkins in a variety of colours: orange and red, orange and black, and glittery black and orange, and a skeleton that is sitting on top of a pumpkin.
September 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I think it’s time to retire these.
#running
I’m holding up both of my running shoes. They are upside down so the soles are facing towards the camera. The soles are primarily orange with some black. The soles are clearly used with bald spots as well as more destruction across the soles.
September 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Mary S Young parkrun!
#running #parkrun
Me jumping up where my legs are straight (no space between them) but my left legs/foot is slight in front of my right leg/foot and my arms are straight out like I’m making a ‘Y’ shape with them. I am wearing a light orange shirt, a pink cap, a blue Garmin watch, black leggings, a pink/red belt, and black and orange running shoes. The background is green: trees, shrubs, and grass, as well as a bark chip path.
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I had myself a little tumble while running my parkrun today!

On a positive note, I think I got my best time so far!
#running #parkrun
My right palm facing upwards. I have a few tiny scraps (also blood!) at the base of my palm. My left leg is in the centre of the image and my right leg is in the background/off to the left of the photo. I’m wearing black leggings/running pants. My left knee has a small hole/tear in the leggings. My left knee without my leggings on, showing off the scrap (and blood!).
September 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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(This was from this previous Saturday’s parkrun.)
This past weekend was my 5th parkrun, and I truly love it! I’m typically a loner runner (I do love doing my own thing) but I do wish I had a runner buddy to have low-key gossip runs.
Me smiling mid running stride in the centre of the photo with both arms up with my palms wide open facing towards the camera. I’m wearing multi-pink coloured biker shorts, a grey crop T-shirt, a light pink hat, a Garmin on my left wrist/arm, and black running shoes. The background is green trees and shrubs as well as a bark chip path. Me smiling mid jumping (I scrunched my legs up so that my shoes are close to my bum) in the centre of the photo with both arms straight stretched out wide. I’m wearing multi-pink coloured biker shorts, a grey crop T-shirt, a light pink hat, a Garmin on my left wrist/arm, and black running shoes. The background is green trees and shrubs as well as a bark chip path, and orange, white, red, and blue small short cones.
September 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A little view of my run this morning.
#running
A bunch of dahlias (lots of green leaves and stems) with dark red flowers where the centres have an almost blackish colour. A field of grass that has dried to a tan with green trees in the background and a metal fence in the foreground. A black and white cat is sitting in the field a little to the left of centre of the photo.
August 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Mary S Young parkrun - 19 July 2025
#parkrun #running
A side shot of me running. The background is greenery (trees, shrubs, grass) and a path made of wood chips. I am near the ride side of the photo wearing a light-pink baseball hat, black bone-conducting earphones, sunglasses, a Garmin watch, a blue shirt, black bike-shorts, lime-green ankle socks, and light-blue and pink/salmon coloured Brooks running shoes. A front shot of me running. The background is greenery (trees, shrubs, grass) and a path made of a cement path turning into wood chips, there are colourful flatter cones (white, red, blue). There is also a volunteer in a neon-yellow hi-res vest and black leggings standing on the far right side of the photo. I am in the middle of the photo wearing a light-pink baseball hat, black bone-conducting earphones, sunglasses, a Garmin watch, a blue shirt, black bike-shorts, lime-green ankle socks, and light-blue and pink/salmon coloured Brooks running shoes.
July 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I’m excited that the Portland Fire is back!
Though I think I’ll need an update on jersey (to be fair it’s a youth medium 🤣.)
#portlandfire #wnba
The front of a WNBA youth’s Portland Fire’s jersey from the first time around of the Fire. The jersey is predominately black with red along the sides and around the neck and arm holes, and gold on top of the shoulders and trimming between the red sides. Near the top of the jersey says “fire” and the number 31 just under it (both in white and red trim). The backside of a WNBA youth’s Portland Fire’s jersey from the first time around of the Fire. The jersey is predominately black with red along the sides and around the neck and arm holes, and gold on top of the shoulders and trimming between the red sides. Near the top of the jersey says “Vangorp” and the number 31 just under it (both in white and red trim). Myself (bob like hair length that’s a brown curly mess) I’m wearing black shorts, a blue/grey tank-top that’s under me wearing the Portland Fire jersey… that is on the too small side! To be fair it is a youth’s medium. (There is also a black and red cat walking beside my leg.)
July 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I found this in the freezer section at a smaller local grocery store and thought it would be fun to try (I also had low expectations: frozen sushi).
The front of a frozen sushi package (a blue box) that says “konscious” (brand) “plant-based salmon avocado roll with avocado and pickled cucumber” there are two images of the sushi rolls (rice on the outside of the roll, and a nori sheet wrapped around two pieces cucumber and the fake pink salmon, while the second roll on the right has a green sauce swizzle on top). The cooked sushi rolls on a white plate with a green out line. There are 8 “rolls” (4 of the rolls are an absolute mess) the 4 rolls that are whole are on the left side of the plate lined together, they have green and soy sauce dollops while the other 4 “rolls” are a mess of rice and cucumber and “salmon” with dollops of green and soy sauce as well.
July 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A cute look at my run today… A sweet little calf! I think the one cow on the right of the picture was the mother’s (on the left) calf from last year.
#run #running #cows
A look through a metal fence of three tan jersey cows. One being what I assume is the mother on the left side of the picture, she is standing with her butt facing the camera and her face looking off towards the left. What I believe is an older child of the mother is standing on the right side of the picture, this cow also has their butt facing the camera and her face looking off towards the left. Finally, the youngest which is a baby calf, who is laying down on the grass to the right side of (what I believe is) their mother, they are looking to their right in the direction of (what I believe is) their sibling. A close up of (what I assume is) the mother and her baby calf. They are both tan jersey cows. The mother is on the left side of the picture, she is standing with her butt facing the camera and her face looking off towards the left and the baby calf, who is laying down on the grass to the right side of their mother. They are looking towards the camera.
July 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I went to the Oregon Country Fair yesterday. Think of it as a hippie-like festival/fair. It is always a fun experience, but very dirty! I had to rinse my feet and shoes before stepping into the house (and take a thorough rinse in the shower.)
#oregon #oregoncountryfair
A close up of my feet while wearing my adidas slides (black with three white stripes that go across the strap) with a grey pebbly ground. My feet and slides are coated in a thick layer of dust dirt (as opposed to mud dirt 😉.) there is a sliver of skin on the top of my feet showing cleaner skin that was protected by the strap.
July 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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In the words of the Toni and Ryan podcast: I started the blog!
I went to my first parkrun! It was amazing and I’m so excited to go back!
Thank you Mary S Young parkrun!
#running #parkrun
A blue oval sign with a black outline that says “Brooks parkrun (with a logo tree)” and in big letters “start.” The sign sits on a grassy area with a paved road next to it. There is also a dog and four human legs at the top left area of the photo. An “action” selfie of me while on my run. It’s “action” in the sense the background is slightly blurry. I am wearing a pink baseball cap, black over-the-ear earphones, orange and blue reflective sunglasses, a light-blue t-shirt. I am smiling, but I am looking forward/down from the camera, instead I’m looking at the path I’m running on. The background is full of trees and a bark path.
June 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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osmolaritea from r/lgbt said to go read this book… so I am! 😁
(Yay libraries!!!)
(I’m linking the post that said go read this book.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/s/8nJBbZWAxh
#read #lgbtqia #graphicnovel #books #genderqueer
A book cover with the title “Gender Queer a memoir” by Maia Kobabe. The cover shows a male figure in dark grey outfit sitting on grass at night with constellations all over him and the sky, then mid way down the cover the ground that the male figure is sitting on flips upside-down. The image on the bottom half of the cover is upside-down and it shows a female figure wearing a tie dye shirt and yellow shorts running in a wheat field.
June 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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16 weeks ago I started a running plan simply to challenge myself and help get me out of my running rut. I truly didn’t see myself being able to make the time I entered when I was setting up the plan. Well, today was the day and I DID IT! I ran a sub 50 minutes 10k!!!! 🎉🥳!!!!
Me just after finishing my run, smiling at the camera. I’m wearing a red/salmon coloured baseball hat, black bone conducting ear phones, a light blue shirt under a purple wind breaker jacket. The pedestrian path that I ran on is in the background. A photo of my legs, but specifically my knee high compression socks. My socks have a black top band and then has a rainbow-like pattern (lime-green, blue, light-blue, red, orange, yellow). I am wearing white running shoes with neon-yellow shoe laces that have a lot of dirt on the front of them. I’m posing on the side of a paved road.
June 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This lunch simultaneously makes me feel like a child and satisfies my ascetic appreciation.
#food
A black tray that has my white water bottle near the top left side of the picture, a tub of plain yogurt (Kite Hill Greek) to the bottom of the water bottle, a green bowl with a brown (bbq sauce) in it to the right of the water bottle, and a white plate that has: a pile of green grapes, 4 strawberries, a pile of carrots, and a pile of nuggets (Impossible brand).
June 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Didn’t feel like going outside to do my run, so I did my run on the treadmill. Remembering I had this lovely sweat band made me very happy 😊!!!
#Running #runner
Busy office/art room (let’s ignore all of that)… My face is tilted slightly towards the left side of the photo and I’m smiling at the camera (mid-chest upwards), I am wearing a black and grey sports bra that has a “v” front style, I have my hair in a half ponytail (the top half of my hair in the ponytail and the bottom half is down) with a thin pink hair band, and a rainbow sweatband around my head. I am thumb upping the camera.
June 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I had just gotten back home from a “nice” hard run and caught this “little” man deciding to take advantage of the waterfall being off! 😹😹😹!
#runner #running #cats
A Black and Tan cat sitting in between flat rocks that make up a little waterfall. (The waterfall is off but there is still a little bit of water. The cat is looking in the direction the photo is taken. There are green plants and shrubs along the flat rocks and a little wooden bridge over the fall on the right side of the picture. A Black and Tan cat standing in between flat rocks that make up a little waterfall with his front paws on the left sides flat rocks and his back legs in the middle of the waterfall. (The waterfall is off but there is still a little bit of water. The cat is looking in the direction the photo is taken. There are green plants and shrubs along the flat rocks.
May 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Happy Pride 🫡!
#lgbtqia #pride #pridejune
A tweet from Tony Choi @tonykchoi (which might be @tonykchoi@mastodon.social) posted at 1:09am on 5/29/20 from their Android, that says “Pride month starts in 3 days. Pride isn’t brought to you by T-Mobile and Absolute Vodka. It was brought to you by drag queens, trans women throwing bricks. By lesbians and queer women taking care of gay men dying of AIDS in the face of an intentional government neglect.”
May 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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My current graphic novel: Enlightened Transsexual Comix by Sam Szabo.
I’m only a handful of pages into it, but I’m loving the style of art (it reminds me of how I drew as a wee one… and even now 😁)
Also, I had to share this one dig/joke (it really got me 😹.)
#books #graphicnovels #lgbtqia
Screenshot off of Libby of Enlightened Transsexual Comix by Sam Szabo. At the time of the photo it was due in 18 days and I was 31% into the book. Screenshot of a character holding a book that says, “Harry Potter and the Concern Troll’s Gambit” by “JK LOL.”
May 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM