Skoop A Game: This is basically a bag packed with super power. A stands for Awesome in my opinion. Each 50-calorie scoop of Skoop contains super veggies, green grasses, superfruits, omega 3’s, probiotics, adaptogens and antioxidants. Being in the thick of marathon training, I’ll take all the nutrients I can get. I mix Skoop A [Read More]
NYCM Training and Week 2 Reset
Cutback week is complete! Here’s how it went: Monday: Hot vinyasa flow yoga Tuesday: Run 4 miles, upper body strength/core Wednesday: 7 miles, 4@tempo pace. Ouch. Thursday: Bike 20 miles. Lower body strength/core Friday: Run 3 miles. Saturday: Rest Sunday: 12 miles Overall a solid, uneventful week. The low mileage felt odd but good. Week [Read More]
Are you a “Cheetah” ?
In case you didn’t know, a new season of Dancing with the Stars started and I’m all over it as usual. I was most excited to see Olympic Hurdler and Bobsledder Lolo Jones. In case you missed it, Lolo’s first dance was kind of a mess, but who cares? Well apparently she did, as she [Read More]
Friday Five
1. Content Scraping. A few weeks ago I started getting pingbacks on every blog post I wrote. When I’d go to the site, I could see nothing. Finally I saw that they were stealing all of my content verbatim, and changing the byline. Thankfully a quick email to the offending website’s host provider put a [Read More]
Let #TheFitnessGames Begin!
As a Sweatpink Ambassador, I was given the opportunity to test out a new workout app: The Fitness Games. This one is cool because you can challenge yourself, challenge friends, or even random strangers all over the world. It works with Apple and Android smart phones and can be downloaded FREE here. There are [Read More]
NYCM Training Week 10
Total Mileage: 55 Monday: Yoga. This hot vinyasa flow class is so darn crowded and yet they continue to allow people to stroll in late and disrupt everyone to move their mats. Why. Just why? Seriously when the door closes and class starts, that’s it…or should be, IMO. Call me the yoga nazi. Tuesday: 4.12, [Read More]
21-Day Reset: Week 1
I’ve been participating in Laura’s 21-Day Reset for a full week now. On the surface it looks like I’m a pretty good eater. I cook. A lot. I’ve got a garden bursting with fresh produce. Processed foods are not my downfall. I’m mostly gluten- soy- and dairy-free. But sugar? Yeah that’s my downfall. I know [Read More]
PRO Compression Review and Giveaway
Now that we’re getting up in the nether regions of fall marathon training mileage, I’m paying extra special attention to recovery. When these baby blue numbers from PRO Compression showed up at my door, they were a sight for sore legs. After my 5k last weekend, I slipped them on and got on with the [Read More]
Loving/Not Loving
Loving: That I live in an area filled with wildlife. Not Loving: In the past week I’ve had snakes in my garage, wasps in the eaves and not one but two frogs leap and hit me when I’m out running. I mean seriously, what’s next? Wait, don’t answer that. Loving: I finally got a new dishwasher. Not [Read More]
Training and Weekend Racing
Week 8 of NYCM training is complete! I am plugging away. Here’s how it went: Monday: Rest/yoga Tuesday: 9 miles (7x1000m) Wednesday: Lower body strength/core Thursday: 5 miles + upper body strength/core Friday: rest Saturday: 5k hilly Sunday: 11 miles, hilly On Saturday I ran my hometown 5k for the 4th time. Gotta love it [Read More]
