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 [...]
September 14, 2011
September 13, 2011
I got a big kick in the pants last Friday, a kick that knocked me into depression and frustration over where I’m at in life and the direction my career is headed. So what do I do? I clean, of course. It always makes me feel better, and why wouldn’t it? Instead of walking into [...]
September 12, 2011
In this week’s Great Fitness Blogging Experiment post, I share the story of a tough week, fraught with depression and fighting (and winning!) my conditioned response: stress eating. Go read it over on the Thrive Personal Fitness blog.
