I’m not out of my funk yet. Despite my joy over my recent bike maintenance spree, not all is well. I’ve actually fallen twice in the last week–both at practical standstills without injury–after going a few months without one (and that one was when I was struck by a car). I’ve also missed one run […]

I’m improving, even though I feel like I’ve stepped backwards in some ways. Consistency, as I often say, is the most difficult thing, and recently I’ve not been as consistent in my workouts or diet as I’d like to be. It’s not totally back to the drawing board, but I have to find ways to […]

One of my Twitter buddies @Lavagal has not only been inspiring those of us who follow her for months and months with her early morning exercise regimen, recently suffered an injury to her Achilles tendon which will keep her out of action for months. She had already registered for some upcoming runs and rides and […]

One of the things that comes through my mind regularly is that I have to get my workout for the day or week done–I just have to. I guess this is called discipline, which I’ve written about before. There’s no difference in my mind between a disciplined and undisciplined workout–it’s just that I get it […]

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 […]

I’m committed now. I’m definitely going to Philadelphia for the Livestrong Challenge, and I’ll be doing both the 10K run (which, quite frankly, I’m not worried about) and the century (which, quite frankly, I am worried about). And as I said the other day, I have been just blown away by the generosity of the […]

Yes, I’m still (mostly) on a holiday hiatus–and unlike my other blogs, this blog is never a weekend poster–but as a follow up to yesterday’s post about my entering the Livestrong Challenge in Philadelphia, I have to say that I am grateful, honored, humbled, and awed by the response. Within the first 24 hours of […]

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 […]

I’m writing this on Thursday night–my triple workout day. Since I’m more focused now than I’ve been in awhile, it was pretty successful: four miles of running in the morning, an hour on the bike, and a half hour of swimming. My heart rate training seems to be working out although I continue to find […]

Several of my Twitter friends ran in the Honolulu Marathon this past Sunday. I was not one of them; having done the 2008 marathon (horribly injured and not well trained) I’m not thinking runs of that length are really for me. That said, it was inspiring to see how well some of them did. Two […]