Vacation time: We all love it but its not so easy to eat healthy when we’re away from home. Believe it or not, it IS possible to enjoy vacation AND avoid the weight gain that often comes with it. Week 3 of my Veggie-Centric diet is complete Week 1: -2 Week 2: No weigh-in due [Read More]
If You Put Kale in Your Smoothie…
If you put kale in your smoothie… Make sure you’re very careful. Because just as you’re enjoying the last bits of it’s green deliciousness the phone may ring. And if the phone rings, you must answer it. Because it could be the school nurse or one of your kids telling you she fell in gym [Read More]
March Madness Half Marathon
March Madness Half Marathon/Cupcake Marathon Race Report I watched the storm approach on Accuweather. Almost 2″ of rain was forecast, accompanied by 40mph winds. Should I stay or should I go? I could have made a strong case with plenty of reasonable excuses for skipping. But I knew I’d be ticked if I skipped the [Read More]
Racing Weight Book Review
When I heard about this book last year, I bolted out to get it as I enjoyed Matt Fitzgerald’s book Brain Training For Runners as well as his magazine articles and respect what he has to say. Lets put it this way: If I were assembling a calendar of running luminaries, it would probably be [Read More]
Zensah Sports Bra Review
My first experience with Zensah was in Boston last year. I was agonizing over the weather and what to wear (what else is new?). Tank? Sleeves? when I came upon the Zensah booth at the expo. I ended up wearing a tank with some Zensah arm sleeves that I rolled up and down as conditions [Read More]
How to Avoid a Training Plateau
Whether it’s fast or slow, productive or destructive, each of us is on a certain track. The decisions we make day-to-day ultimately determine where our life heads over the coming weeks, months and years. I thought about where I was at this time in previous years. Answer? In the thick of Boston training. One year [Read More]
Cupid’s 10k: Race Report
We totally lucked out: a near tropic but breezy 33 degrees as I headed to the race yesterday. There was a 10k and a 4-miler, both inaugural events. Despite having to proclaim my status ie: taken, single and looking, jilted etc. There was no indication on the bibs or anywhere–yes i was looking. Heart filled [Read More]
Twists and Turns in Perspective
google images The day before my stress test last week, the girl chicks and I were heading home from Super Target where we did an apres-blizzard stock-up. The roads were still treacherous. Visibility was poor because we were virtually tunneling thru the mounds of snow that were piled up. The kids argued amongst themselves (as [Read More]
Stress Test: I Lived to Tell About It
I am back from my stress test. Alive and in one piece. It being heart month and all, I wore my festive yet functional ruby red sports bra. When I got there some possibly Russian guy named Michaelo told me to “tek everysink on top uff.” Say what? Is ‘everysink’ Russian for bra? You expect me [Read More]
How Big is Your HAG?
I’m talking about BHAG, your Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal, as coined by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their book, Built To Last. Let’s look at some BHAG parameters, according to the authors: A BHAG should be so clear and compelling that it requires little or no explanation…. If it doesn’t get your juices going [Read More]
