Tag: exercise

  • One last thought …

    … for 2010. According to Daily Mile, here are my workout stats for 2010. Distance run/walked/cycled, etc: 1,182.37 miles Farthest running mileage: 26.8 miles Fastest running pace: 7:11 minute mile Bring it, 2011!

  • ‘This is your gym for the next 90 days’

    That’s what the box on my newly purchased P90x tells me. I am skeptical. What about my running? But I realize I don’t even know enough about the program to know if they account for that. Here’s what I do know: My gym membership ran out a month ago. I traded in Time Warner for…

  • Is it possible to be in love with a building?

    Ok, I’m going to keep this post short. I’ll tell you why: Because I’m on my last day of my free trial membership to Urban Active Fitness in Ballantyne. And I want to go spend as much time as there today as I possibly can. I first heard about this gym from Scott, who told…

  • Don’t phone it in

    Change is everywhere. I see it and I feel it within. I look in the mirror and I see a stronger, leaner, toned version of myself. It reminds me of marathon training except somehow … better. I know now why triathletes love the sport. I don’t even care about race day; I’m loving the training…

  • The lazy girl’s envy list

    I blame the winter weather. And I blame the fact that I already ran a marathon, so my half-marathon race training has left me cocky. But instead of running, I’m sitting here drooling over the things I need that would totally make me a better exerciser, if only I had them: 1.  A home gym…

  • Life is a gift. Use it or lose it …

    So, I’m a little late on the the whole “look back/look ahead” post that comes at the end of the year, but I was too busy celebrating the holidays to take the time to sit down and think about it! So, better late than never, right? Last year I wrote about some thoughts on 2008,…

  • Sit-ups, 8es dancing, writing novels and ad design

    A hodgepodge of thoughts today: ———— I’ll share a couple of sites I came across this week (mostly through social networking!): D&AD Creative Search: I saw this one mentioned by several people on Twitter this week. Go ahead, type something in. I typed “flowers” and then I typed “Melissa Oyler” … it’s fun! One hundred…

  • I can’t wear flip-flops?!?

    Went to a foot/ankle injury prevention series last night at TrySports. They had Carolina Sports Clinic doctor Joshua Kollman talk to us about conservative care – that starts before we feel the injury. Dr. Kollman is not just a doctor – he’s also completed an Ironman. So he certainly knows what we are going through…

  • It’s not enough to run …

    But I have to tell people about it. My reason is because if I slack off, I want people to call me on it! And it makes me want to run just so I can have something to log. I’ve been tracking my runs at Map My Run for about a year now. They have…

  • Help me be clever

    Kevin, Jenny, Chuck and I are talking about running the 2010 Cooper River Bridge Run together. This is so special to me as I have fond memories of my first and only bridge run, with Jenny, in 2008. (Want to see how far Kevin has come? Check out his comment on that post!) I’m going…