Giraffes Versus Parrots And just like that I’m back to starting my workday at 6:30 AM four days a week after one of my clients who I see four mornings a week returned from a three week vacation. In order to get my own strength training workout completed before starting my workday, I’m up at […]
Spring Pink Locally, our trees are showing off their varying shades of pink. Redbuds, cherry, apple, and dogwoods. Even the tulips are trying to get in on the action. Each time I leave my house for a walk or to drive to work, the trees seem to get a little bit prettier. Now if it […]
Great American Ride My Dawn Patrol friends and I are participating in the Great American Ride where we will log our outdoor and indoor cycling mileage as our team makes its way virtually across America. On Saturday, April 5 we started our journey in La Push, Washington working our way toward DC, arriving Friday, June […]
It’s time to sit down once again with a beverage of your choice and chat – I’ll remind you that I don’t like coffee or tea so my drink of choice today will be water. Let’s chat about things other than just running, cycling, strength training, yoga, and complaining about our most recent injuries. […]
April True or April Fool Happy April Fools’ Day! Just for fun, I’m sharing eight running related things about me… Seven are true and one is false. You have to figure out which one is the lie. 1. I’ve run a 50-mile ultramarathon. 2. I qualified for Boston at my first marathon. 3. I […]
Unintended Threefer I had absolutely no plans to extend my Weekly RunDown into three weeks, but so it happened. I developed a post-op complication so there has been lots going on, but not much to report. There’s been lots of waiting for follow up doctors’ appointments and the most important one (with a urologist) will […]
~ Runfessions ~ A collection of statements admitting that one is guilty of a variety of running crimes… It’s time again to join in on the fun and clear my conscience of recent running, biking, fitness, nutrition, and life in general faux pas. I know I’ll feel better when I’m done, and maybe, just maybe, I’ll […]
Sleep Seems to be Ruling My Life I’m shocked at the amount of sleep I’ve needed since surgery. My goal for the past few years has been 7 hours per night, according to my Fitbit (Fitbit subtracts out restless sleep and any time I wake up during the night). Since surgery I’ve needed 8-9 nightly […]
It’s time to sit down once again with a beverage of your choice and chat – I’ll remind you that I don’t like coffee or tea so my drink of choice today will be water. Let’s chat about things other than just running, cycling, strength training, yoga, and complaining about our most recent injuries. […]
Not the Workouts I’d Planned In the following 3-week Weekly RunDown post, I detail the events of a surprised diagnosis of a ruptured appendix and six-day stay in the hospital. Please feel free to skip from the first week’s Tuesday workout – my last real workout – to the final week on Thursday when I […]
Spending the Day with Chuck When we asked our friend Chuck to come up with a ride suggestion for while we were in the area visiting, not only did he plan our ride, but he filled our day. He started by treating us to an airboat ride before hitting the gravel trail on the […]
Everglades National Park Shark Valley The day prior to our ride while making our way across Florida on Alligator Alley, we’d stopped by Shark Valley in the Everglades, but hadn’t taken in much of the park. We knew we’d regret not riding around the 15-mile loop after hearing how many alligator sighting opportunities we’d […]
A Winter Getaway Our Florida roadtrip is behind us and rather than complaining about the snowy weather in our forecast, I’ll focus on how absolutely beautiful the weather was during our two weeks away. Every day the temperature got up into the 70-80’s and sunshine prevailed. We were gone for 15 days and rode 7 […]
It’s time to sit down once again with a beverage of your choice and chat – I’ll remind you that I don’t like coffee or tea so my drink of choice today will be water. Let’s chat about things other than just running, cycling, strength training, yoga, and complaining about our most recent injuries. […]
Cycling Around Bonita Springs and Pelican Bay Having driven from a frigid and snowy Virginia south through an unusual cold snap, we left the last of the snow behind in southern Georgia and arrived in Naples, Florida on their first warm day in nearly a week. With gravel bikes in tow, we were eager […]
Learning to Appreciate Shorter Workouts When it comes to cardio workouts, I’ve always preferred long and steady over short and intense: long training runs over track intervals, marathons over 5K’s, long bike rides over hill repeats. However, last spring’s training for my first bike race had me doing shorter rides with pickup intervals and I […]
Fitbit Premium I purchased my first Fitbit over ten years, but have always used the free app. This year, a health insurance change qualified us for Fitbit Premium. When logging onto premium I discovered it includes coaching from Peloton, Les Mills, and a variety of other instructors. I had previously completed a few cycling classes […]
The Beauty of Snow Days I’ll be the first to admit that I love a pretty snowfall. Growing up in the mountains of southwest Virginia we got plenty of snow. I have fond memories of riding a sled without stopping from my dad’s dairy barn right down the middle of the gravel road to our […]
National and Global Days for the Fitness Enthusiast The following national and global days are all worthy of celebration by us diehard fitness enthusiasts, assuming we participate in the sport. If not, perhaps it will be incentive to branch out and try a new activity. My personal favorite is National Personal Trainer Awareness Day on […]
Dumb Luck Brings Me to Finding that Pesky 15.1-Mile Discrepancy Out of sheer dumb luck, I found the 15.1-mile cycling discrepancy between Strava and Garmin that I mentioned last week. I found it when I saw on my Garmin app’s year end review that I’d gone on a 15-mile run in September. No I didn’t. […]
