I decided to try a fourth day of running again today (last week I did four days, for the first time). I crapped out at 2 minutes, but I decided well,... Read more
From the book Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On by Mark A. Reineke:
"Everyone has negative thoughts, and lots of them (Rachman and de Silva 1... Read more
I have not added a blog in a while so heres whasssup. I have been doing well with exercising up until this week. Zumba was canceld for Mothers Day tha... Read more
When do we lose our excitement about the little things? I ask because today was Pajama Day at my daughter's school...and when we got there, it turned... Read more
I try to pick some sort of "focus" for each of my yoga workouts - get my heart rate going, work on abs, etc. Today I decided to focus on stretching..... Read more
I slept like the dead last night, but I actually woke up before the alarm went off. I think that was more because the curtain wasn't all the way clos... Read more
I think spring is my favorite time of year to do yoga...it is just so lovely to be able to open up the windows and french door in our bedroom, smell t... Read more
Tough to drag myself out of bed this morning, I was just NOT in the mood...but I focused on channeling all the anger and frustration I'm feeling towar... Read more
So yesterday, I did my run workout in the morning, then mowed the lawn, then hit the grocery store, and after dinner we headed to Ikea to pick up a li... Read more
So, last night I was reading my new Running magazine...I love that magazine, those people are so crazy passionate about running that you just can't he... Read more
Woo hoo, we've survived the week! I don't know, but this has been a hard one. Very happy to be in the home stretch!
Got my run in this morning.... Read more
Oh man, am I dragging today, don't know why...this week has been tough for some reason. I really really REALLY wanted to stay in bed this morning, bu... Read more
Well, yesterday degenerated quite a bit as I got into an email snit with one of the Girl Scout moms. She got on my case about something after the mee... Read more
So, I got five minutes into my workout this morning and it started sprinkling. Oh man! Just far enough that I really didn't want to go back home to... Read more
Yesterday turned out to be a pretty busy day! But what else is new, for a Saturday. ;-) In the morning, I took Kate to karate while Paul did the gr... Read more
Paul's parents were here yesterday and we went out to dinner to this wonderful Czech-Italian place we recently discovered. But I was soooo bad...I or... Read more
Okay, picked up a new battery yesterday evening so my Fit Bit is back! It's so funny, how motivating it is...yesterday I was going to take the stairs... Read more
Okay, first the bad news...when I took my Fit Bit off last night, there was no little smiley face looking up at me...just BLANK. Wah! I got the batt... Read more
I was going to call it a wrap up but how predictable is that? End of my first month back. One of my worst character flaws is fear of commitment. It ha... Read more
Kate bounced into our bedroom five minutes after our alarm went off this morning (6am)! Sheesh. She always gets up early on the weekends, but we usu... Read more
Whew, I don't know if I'm fighting the bug Paul's had or what, but I am soooo tired! I have absolutely no idea how I managed to run today, but I did... Read more
Spent yesterday with my whole family. Turned out to be a lot more of a work day than I'd anticipated, because my dad has the carpet guys scheduled to... Read more
Well, I survived the week, yay! All the weekend work caught up with me by Friday, I was just POOPED yesterday! Slept hard last night.
Coughin... Read more
So, this morning the alarm woke me out of a dead sleep. I was coughing a lot last night - thing thing won't quit! and I just didn't want to even try... Read more
Did some lunges to start off my workout again today, and then focused on abs for the first part of my yoga. The running folks all say to work on your... Read more
Got my running in this morning - oy, was it hard! Did my 12 min, but just had nothing left to try for any "extra" at the end. For some reason, my le... Read more
Feeling good today, like I'm turning the corner, in several ways...
First, my shoulder is FINALLY feeling better, yay! I did yoga this morning,... Read more
Well, dragged my butt through 13 minutes of running today, oy was it hard, my legs are tired! Was really feeling it on the walk in to work (several b... Read more
Havent wrote a blog in a while, but Iv been reading others. The racers inspire me. The HIIT ladies wow me. Im somewhere in the middle, Im the type tha... Read more
Well, the train ride was really fun and nice, and Kate really enjoyed it even though she was the only kid. We ended up having to cancel the pool plan... Read more
I never got around to looking at my week on Fitbit last week, but here's this week:
Sat. 4/13 - 5864 steps, 2.67 miles, 2064 cals
Sun. 4/14 - 1... Read more
Well, the stupid cough is giving me some asthma symptoms, so I ended up having to walk this morning, chest was too tight to run. I thought about just... Read more
Plugging away...did yoga again this morning...threw in some squats and lunges at the beginning, great warmup! My shoulder is feeling better so I thin... Read more
It's my motto for doing my stair climbs and seems pretty apropos for how to get along!
I've been doing pretty good this week getting my tracking... Read more
Woke up feeling soooo tired today...a couple nights of lots of interrupted sleep = unhappy me! Between Paul being up and down with kidney stone troub... Read more
Finally got around to watching it. Pretty interesting.
Got the hubby interested in this as a way to get his veggies, since he hates veggies!
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Geez, getting old is a bitch...I've been trying to stretch like crazy to loosen up my tight calves, which seems to be what's making my achilles hurt (... Read more
Tough getting up this morning...felt tired and my stomach was a little wonky...can you say three or four glasses of red wine last night, anyone? But... Read more
This morning, I did the annual "Zoo Zoom," a 5k that raises money for the Sacramento Zoo. It happens to start right around the corner from my house,... Read more
SparkPeople member AQUAGIRL08 struggled with chronic pain unitl she decided to take control of her health through diet and exercise. She offers her best advice anyone dealing with pain.
