Here’s how last week went down. Stuff in red didn’t happen. Stuff in purple is what I did instead. Total mileage: 23 Monday: Yoga Tuesday: 10x400m Wednesday: 50 minute easy run. Pear Sports HIIT workout Thursday: Strength and running drills Friday: 5x1600m. 30 minute BBTN* run Saturday: Heavy weights and swim (pffft) Sunday: 10 miles [Read More]
Strawberry-Pineapple Smoothie
Week 2 of the Lorna Jane/Fit Approach Move Nourish Believe Challenge is complete. This week we focused on how we NOURISH ourselves. In case you didn’t catch it on Instagram, here’s how things went down: Meatless Monday: This one is self-explanatory. Tuesday: Take your lunch to work. I went with some simple tuna and avocado [Read More]
How Big is Your Swag?
Yesterday alone I got 3 emails from directors: One previewing the medal for a May race, complete with dimensions. Call me old fashioned but I kind of like it when the medal is a secret until I cross the finish line. The other two dangled the copious contents of their goodie bags as an incentive [Read More]
The Anguish of a DNS
Week 6 of training for the Lincoln Presidential Half Marathon is complete. Thing in red did not happen. Thing in purple is what I did instead: Total Miles: 22 Monday: Yoga Tuesday: Pace intervals, upper body strength Wednesday: Easy 40 minute run, lower body strength Thursday: Drills, strength Friday: 8xhill repeats Saturday: Heavy weights Sunday: 5k [Read More]
Week 1 Recap: Lorna Jane #mnbchallenge
Week 1 of Lorna Jane’s Move Nourish Believe Challenge is complete! Our focus this week was Move. Here’s my week in pictures: Day 1: Favorite way to sweat. You know I have to say running. Even if it’s super snowy, icy and cold. As long as I avoid frostbite and don’t break a hip, I’m [Read More]
Modeling Positivity
It’s been a loooong, dark, polar vortexular winter and it’s not even close to over. This week I feel like I’m plowing through each day just to inch closer to spring. One of my kiddos lately has been oozing gloom and doom, to the point that I fear it’s becoming her trademark. It’s a tough winter [Read More]
Workout Hair
Not to be confused with a hairy workout. If you’re an Instagram friend, you probably know that I finally got a haircut last week….and that I’m not thrilled with it Here’s the before and after. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not all bad, I don’t hate it. I just wanted it shorter, because my hair grows [Read More]
5 Ways To Be A Better Yogi
I made it to a yoga class for the first time this year. I intentionally stayed away until now, letting the resolution crowds thin a bit. Alas the class was full. Busting at the seams, actually. Several straggled in late and we all sardined in even more. I was accommodating, until the last straw, that [Read More]
Virtual Racing #WinterMiles and #5bythe5th
Not one but two virtual races happened here last week. I ran Run with Jess’ #WinterMiles Snowball Shuffle Virtual 8k on the mill. Ironically there were no snowballs in my running laboratory, I mean basement, and I did not shuffle either. To make sure I picked up the pace, I made my gut-busting 400m repeats [Read More]
Women, Running and Rest
Why Are Strategic Rest and Recovery So Important? Why Do Women Require More Rest and Recovery Time Than Men? Training is a continuous cycle of stress and recovery, stress and recovery. During training, you sustain micro-tears in your leg muscles. When training is managed properly, the body repairs itself and gets stronger during recovery. [Read More]
