How can you possibly wake up whiny when you look outside and see this beautiful sunrise. I haven’t run since last Saturday, so maybe I could whine a little… After three days of back spasms, piriformis and hip flexor pain, my foam roller is once again my best friend. I’m starting to feel better, and […]
My first memories of running were at my parents’ summer picnics, where my brother and I would race our cousins around our house. My brother is four years older than me, so he always won! If running is child’s play, why do so many adults forget how to play? […]
Since we can’t go without our phones for more than two minutes, we should use them to our advantage when running. Right? Here are some running and fitness apps that I use or that I’ve heard about from friends. Please add your favorite apps in the comment section below. Track outdoor fitness activities, and connect […]
I’ve trained a lot of people during my career, and I never push them to become runners. Really, I don’t! Every once in a while, someone will tell me that they want to sign up for a race, and inside I’m jumping up and down screaming, “Yippee!” but outside, I’m like, “Oh, that’s cool.” Last […]
I don’t really know when it started, but it was a long time ago. It probably really started as a result of my passion for gardening and landscaping – digging up mature bushes, and even ripping their mature tap roots out of the ground. I enjoyed hard work, and there was nothing I wouldn’t try to do […]
Happy Easter! I took today off from running… How about you? My oldest son got avocados and a dark chocolate Dove bunny in his basket! I love it! We had Prosecco mimosas with our brunch. It’s become our new Christmas and Easter morning tradition. I worked on my deviled egg chicks some more today. I […]
Two words: epic fail! Two more words: good recovery! When I was little my mom and I made an Easter Bunny cake every year. When I grew up, I continued the tradition with my boys. Our cakes always turned out really nice, until last year and this year… Last year’s cake leaned to the left […]
For about the past five years, I’ve been having the annual Easter Bunny Hop for the Cruisers. I fill my baskets with runner goodies and hand them out before the run. One year I tried to wear bunny ears for the run, but they kept falling off, so now I just wear them for handing […]
Yesterday I wrote And Then, The Unthinkable Happened, the second article in a three part series about my friend Betty’s lifelong struggle with weight loss. I left you with where Betty is today… in a very good place. Betty and I talked about what else she wants you to know about her story and […]
Yesterday I wrote The Many Years of Yo-Yo Dieting, the first article in a three-part series about my friend Betty’s lifelong struggle with weight loss. When I left off, Betty had completed a full marathon and a half-marathon and was hooked on a sport for the first time in her life. The following summer (2007), […]
As promised, today I will start a three part series about my friend Betty’s lifelong struggle with weight loss. She describes herself as a chubby child and teenager. Throughout high school she tried many different diets, and as a result, she lost weight and gained it back over and over again. She always strived to […]
One day last summer I noticed that a company called the Wine’ing Butcher had liked Personal Fit Fitness, my business Facebook page. I Googled it and quickly discovered that it was a wine store/butcher shop that had two stores in New Hampshire; and couldn’t understand how they had found me. While snooping around some more, […]
Today was my friend’s 62nd birthday! I met Betty in January 2008 when she hired me to help her in her weight loss journey; however, today it is more of a wellness lifestyle we focus on. Starting on Wednesday, we are going to follow her journey through fad diets, weight loss and gain, barriatric surgery, […]
Part of keeping my personal training and weight loss management certifications up to date includes keeping a current CPR certification; and today was the day I took care of that for two more years! Thanks to the fine folks over at CrossFit for letting this independent trainer join their Heartsaver (American Heart Association) CPR, AED, […]
Every Saturday the Cruisers meet for our weekly group run on the W&OD Trail, a very popular trail in our area. It is a narrow 45-mile-long multi-use park that consists of an asphalt trail and a parallel gravel path. It was built on the old railroad bed where trains ran from 1859 to 1968. We […]
To celebrate Friday, here are some memes, cartoons, and funny cocktail napkins for you to enjoy! This Runner meme was the first one I saw and it cracked me up. You may have seen it, but I thought it was worth including. The Cruisers will tell you that “What I Really Do” below is so […]
The Cruisers have a list of running and racing rules somewhere in facebook land. When facebook switched over its groups to a new format about two years ago, we lost all of our very organized silly rules that we had added over the years and organized in our notes section. Facebook decided theses notes would […]
This morning I overslept… I never oversleep, except twice in the last two months. Seriously, what’s up with that? This morning it cost me my morning run. I woke up as my BRF Susan was probably running back past our house for the second time wondering where I was. I had plenty of time to […]
I started watching The Biggest Loser occasionally when one of my clients started talking about it a few years ago. She seemed so inspired that I wanted to see just what all of the excitement was about. This season, I have been fully invested in the show; and have been able to I discuss it […]
I stopped by my favorite local running store today to pick up new shoes. I was fitted in Asics before my first marathon, and I’ve worn them ever since. My last several pairs have been gray or black, so I may be disappointed with how quickly these get dirty; and how big they make my […]
