February 17, 2012
Well, I decided on Monday to go cold-turkey on Dr. Pepper with a couple safe guards in place to make sure that I don’t slip up. If I make it 14 days with out any soda (diet is okay at this point), then I get to give $2 a day for a total of $28 [...]
February 13, 2012
It’s no secret that Dr. Pepper is one of my biggest weaknesses when it comes to making healthy choices. I’ve tried all sorts of ways to quit it, but it’s so hard. My current strategy is substitution. Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon, sparkling water in the evening, and lots of good old [...]
November 5, 2011
Well, this is it, the last post of the Great Fitness Blogging Experiment. Sad, huh? It makes me a little scared too. Now I’m on my own! No twice weekly sessions with Pamela to keep me honest. And I can’t currently run, either, which means my favorite cardio is off the table. But you know [...]
October 26, 2011
Yeesh, I am behind on sharing these posts with you! You’d think being down and out with this knee injury that I’d have more time to blog. I sure did. :) Anyway, here are brief descriptions to the posts, along with links. Enjoy! How to Eat Your Veggies This is one of the goals that [...]
October 14, 2011
It was a beautiful night at Cruse Dog Park. Rowdy was having a blast with get best doggie friend, Ellie. I was having an interesting conversation with Ellie’s owner, Julie, about career, traveling, and anal glands. All of a sudden, I was on the ground. When Rowdy and some of her favorite dog park buddies [...]
October 9, 2011
Time*: 1:11:54 (11:36 pace) If you couldn’t tell from my previous post, I had some high expectations for this race. I didn’t meet any of them, but now that I’ve had about 15 hours to reflect, I’m happy with my showing in today’s race. Let me give you a brief run down–pun intended–of the race [...]
October 7, 2011
The big variables are already set in stone: how will I fuel up in the days leading up to race day? How much muscle-building, body-rejuvenating sleep will I allow myself? How serious did I take my training? Those factors get checked off before my toes get anywhere near the starting line. All these little things [...]
October 3, 2011
It took 6 weeks (and almost 30 years), but I finally learned an important lesson: if you’re going to make healthy choices, you have to be able to make healthy choices when life is going according to plan and when it throws you a curve ball or you’re just out of your element, and that’s [...]
September 25, 2011
A lot of people, usually non-runners, are so amazed that I can run! I sometimes try to convince them that they can too–I have two secrets that I bestow on those awestrucks–but they hardly ever believe me. It’s like they think runners are a special breed of human. But really! You need an incremental training [...]
September 23, 2011
I’m a couple weeks behind in sharing these posts with you, but I know you’ll enjoy them all the same. Here’s a post in which I have a conversation with myself about sugar, and here’s a post where I share how I tried to cope with Real Life happening while still trying to maintain the [...]
