Last week was a fun one! Here’s how it shook out: Monday: Yoga, upper body weights Tuesday: 5 miles. 5x1000m. Lower body weights/core Wednesday: Rest Thursday: Rest Friday: 5 miles, 3 at tempo pace, weights for legs, core Saturday spin class upper body weights Sunday: 9 miles and change. 3 more miles later. Because it [Read More]
Archives for 2013
A Blog From the Heart
My paternal grandmother died of a heart attack long before I was born. Heck my dad was still a boy when she died. All but one of his sisters died in their 40’s and 50’s. The final one made it to a ripe old 65. Heart disease claimed them all. My 5 siblings and I [Read More]
My ‘Secret’ to Running Strong
If you hang around here you know that running and I have had our ups and downs. Vitamin D deficiency, injury, thyroid, weight gain, aging, I’ve pointed the finger all different ways. Lately though, running has been going well. Why? I decided finally to listen to my heart. I pay attention to this sucker when [Read More]
Do You Keep Score?
Thing 2’s school sold Valentine mailgrams last week as a fundraiser. Kids bought them for their teachers and friends and they were delivered at the class party on Valentine’s Day. Thing 2 was very excited to take money to school and buy some for her friends in first grade. I reminded her she would have [Read More]
Melt Mental Flab
Lately I’ve been whining about physical flab, aka weight gain. After overcoming my inner suck monkey the other day and getting out for an unscheduled yet satisfying mid-week 10 miler, I realized that my biggest enemy was the ‘flab’ in my head. Could it be that our lack of mental fitness is the very thing [Read More]
Weigh-In
Last week I told you how my workouts were suffering due to calorie restriction on the Fitbit Aria’s ‘kinda hard’ plan (-1.5 lbs./week). This week I dialed it back and reset El Diablo’s calculations for a 1 pound weekly loss. Instantly my workouts were better. I weighed daily, although from here on out I’m cutting back [Read More]
Weightloss Wednesday Good/Bad/Ugly
This first week had it’s ups and downs. Good: Food and exercise-wise I slammed it. I was verrrry good on the food front. I hit all my workouts but that’s to be expected right? The food is where I get into trouble. I set up my weightloss goal on my Fitbit Aria scale, aka El [Read More]
How to Dress for Cold Weather Running
Last week we had some of the coldest weather I’ve gone out to run in so far this season. Not having a spring marathon to train for makes me a touch more willing to surrender to the mill. But I couldn’t resist getting out in the snow yesterday for 10 miles. Temperature when I went [Read More]
Look What the Cat Dragged In
The universe has a way of delivering just what you need when you need it: hard lessons, a new friend, a guardian angel, you know the drill. Last week this contraption, no not Thing 2, showed up on my doorstep. It’s the Fitbit Aria, Wi-Fi Smart Scale . As much as I love to hate scales, [Read More]
Hitting the Reset Button
Can I get a do over? That’s the way I feel after being sick/not sick, running/not running for the past 2 weeks. I was under the weather just enough to still try to workout, only to find that I was not performing at 100%, ok miserable, and I wasn’t doing myself any favors trying. Finally [Read More]
