There are many, many ways to fall off the workout and diet wagon. For me, traveling was one of them. I’m not much for traveling. I don’t like flying–I believe coach class was meant for size four women, and I’m definitely not a size four woman. And I’m certainly not one for cold, and for […]
Using Google Maps while I find a reasonable way to measure my running distances and speeds, here’s some of my current routes: This is the three mile out and back route that my running partner (who I guess will be known here as Twitterless E) do two times a week (supposed to be three times […]
I’m a little worried. While my training has been going well–maybe better than ever as far as running goes–I’m still not feeling 100% myself. I’ve had a cold and the cough that it produced is still hanging around. And I went to take labs for the first time in awhile this morning and my fasting […]
My diet has been lacking the last few months. I’ve known this was going to be an issue and my recent lab results show my hemoglobin a1c at 8.9, a far cry from the 7 it’s usually at and the 6.1 considered normal. This despite the fact that my exercise schedule has been reasonable if […]
I’m inspired. The combination of last weekend’s 5K, my new heart rate monitor, decent weather, some reasonable training runs and rides, and considering the Livestrong Challenge in Philadelphia has lifted me out of my doldrums. And to make it even better, a bunch of my friends ran in the Honolulu Marathon on Sunday. Right now […]
My training has been sporadic at best. Some things have been great–running in the morning has really helped me get in workouts that I had otherwise been missing, and I get to do it with a friend too. Others, like this lingering cough that wakes me up some nights, have been less than great. That […]
I’m regaining lost ground. My weight which had gone over 190 is now back in the high 180s and I’m hoping back to my baseline 185 soon. Part of that is hard work–getting those 7:15 am runs in last week, as well as making sure I continued on the bike. Part of that was also […]
One of the social workers I work with who is usually stationed at another clinic will be temporarily assigned to the same building and shift I do for a few weeks. She’s close to my age and she’s been trying to get her workouts kick started too. So tomorrow, we’re going to meet at 7:15 […]
I’m sick. I don’t like being sick, and while there’s no “best” time, this really isn’t anywhere near that, since I start a six day stretch of work Monday. I’m hoping this is “just” a cold, not the flu, and certainly not the flu formerly known as swine. What about my workouts? Trying to do […]
I’m about 90 degrees into a 180 degree turn. I haven’t been doing that well with my health and fitness recently–once I was done with the century I started a downward spiral and my way too busy October dragged me down into it further. But it’s November now and that part of my life is […]