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Dialing It Down, but not By Choice After a week of some of the most epic gravel grinding my husband and I have ever done (173 miles with 12,227 feet of climbing), I’ve dialed it down a notch this week, but not by choice. You see, I brought an unexpected souvenir home from vacation… Covid. […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Vacationing Exactly the Way We Like It My husband and I prefer to vacation a little differently than some. We love to stay active and plan our trips around hiking, biking, and in the past, running. We’re perfectly happy having a big breakfast, eating a few bars while […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Leaf Peeping and Lobster Eating After reading Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton (affiliate link), visiting Acadia National Park during autumn became a bucket list item. Yes, I wanted to be a leaf peeper. Once we learned that Bill’s brother and our sister-in-law planned to spend a few […]
Prioritizing by Modifying Workouts There’s only so much that can be fit into a day and when much of the week is spent in a car, workouts just might have to take a back seat, so to speak. One-hour full body strength training sessions became 15 minute core workouts, bike rides bookended the week without […]
Cruisers Reunion A few weeks ago my friend Shawn reached out to the Cruisers hoping to get us going again; however, out of town travel had prevented me from joining some of my favorite people for a run until this weekend. Life, injuries, moves, etc. had unintentionally disbanded us and and we’d only regroup after […]
Relaxed Two Weeks After two weeks of mostly being away from home – at the beach and at the farm – I’m looking forward to getting back into routine. I thrive on routine and while I certainly got in plenty of exercise while at the beach, I allowed for more relaxed eating habits with lots […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Justifying Another Bike When we bought our beach cruisers earlier this summer I was a little nervous that I wouldn’t use it enough to justify owning another bike. This past week proved to me that buying bikes was a good investment and we’ll save money over the long […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Reston Century Goal Met The week started with the Reston Century and in addition to having fun and not getting injured, I had one goal for riding this year’s Reston Century and that was to increase my average speed to above last year’s 15.1 MPH. I finished at […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Stalking the Weather When we stepped out for our Sunday morning walk we noted how perfect the weather would be for riding the Reston Century scheduled one week from that day. At 6 AM it had been 63° and clear with low humidity. The high for the day […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Apple Versus Garmin When my husband and I took our walk along the shaded trail on Sunday, we were surprised at how different our paces were on his Apple watch (affiliate link) versus my Garmin (affiliate link). At times our paces were 2 minutes apart even though we […]
It’s Been a Week It’s been a fun and frightening week, read on… Overview of the Week Before discussing each day’s workouts, here’s an overview of my workouts from this past week. Scroll beyond the infographic for daily details… Sunday Walking: 5K • Average pace: 14:32 • Start time: 10:13 AM • Location: […]
Training for My Next Century The Reston Century is three weeks from today. I rode 100 miles on June 21, so the distance doesn’t concern me. The 5,705 feet of elevation gain; however, does – I know I can do it, it just might not be pretty. Prior to last year’s Reston Century we went […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Garmin, Don’t You Know Who I Am? I ride back-to-back days on the weekends often, but with a new heart rate monitor (affiliate link) linked to my bike Garmin (affiliate link), it spit out a little bit more information than this self-described cardio junkie wanted to see. Possibly […]
Teaching the Next Generation of Gardeners Don’t ask me why, but I was looking forward to my Monday afternoon gardening project so much so that I woke up several times Sunday night thinking about it. I had promised to help my neighbors with the project – removing the extremely well attached fence from around their […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Broadening My Cardio Interests When I started this blog almost ten years ago, my two main fitness activities were running and lifting weights. I only walked to get from here to there, I rarely did yoga (not that I’m doing much of it now), and I certainly wasn’t […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Rebuilding a USA Jersey for Independence Day Weekend Two years ago when Bill and I joined our friends for an Independence Day ride, I was bummed that I didn’t have a red, white, and blue cycling kit to wear. I had quite the collection of shorts, skirts, tanks, […]
Taking Advantage of the Longest Day of the Year This time of year, I love that it’s already daylight as I make my way out of our bedroom at 5 or 5:30 AM and I don’t need to use my phone’s flashlight to guide the way. I’m not sure why, but this year I was […]
Running Less, Cycling More I have a draft blog post entitled “How to Know When It’s Time to Trade in the Running Shoes for Cycling Shoes.” I started it a couple of years ago during a pity party while sidelined with my ongoing back issue caused by minor disc herniations that love to act up […]
Advanced Blogging Over My Pay Grade Totally unrelated to my workouts, and feel free to skip ahead, WordPress notified me a few weeks ago that I was running an old PHP version (scripting language – yes, I had to look it up) which would no longer be supported in July. Updating it myself seemed overwhelming […]
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links Memorial Day Weekend I tend to work most holidays like Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc. The gyms where I worked were always open and quite busy with people who had the day off so we were always scheduled to work. When I opened my own business […]
