2020 PT Week 3/4: Return to Racing
Previous post topics when I thought I’d get this posted sooner: I’m taking my talents to South Florida Yep, that made the rounds after the NFC/AFC Conference Championship Games with the Super Bowl in...
View ArticlePT Week 5: PT is Like Dieting
I’ve come to the realization that PT is like a diet. You may lose 5 lbs or have the sore muscle stop hurting, but there’s lots of long term adjustments. I don’t say that to knock PT. I love my PT, but...
View ArticleRace Recap: Zooma Bermuda
more to come on Bermuda overall in, hopefully, a #TravelTuesday post. In the mean time, my thoughts on an amazing racecation. First of all, major love and shout out to the entire Zooma and OnPace race...
View ArticleRunning and Social Anxiety
If two bloggers meet and we forget to take a photo, did it really happen? Coco and I had a wonderful catch up over some delicious guacamole and chips on Wednesday evening. When she messaged me...
View ArticleLeaping into March
I know February is the shortest month and all that jazz, but wow, I blinked and missed it. I actually LEAPED into the sale as soon as they announced it. Spring should be for skirt shopping, but I...
View ArticleWordPress needs a time out
ERROR: please fill the required fields (name, email). That has been the story of my life. At first, just on my laptop in Firefox. Then at work too in Chrome. Bizarrely I have no idea what broke as I...
View Article3rd Raceversary
Three years ago tomorrow I finished my first race. I was officially a Frozen Penguin. I missed my three year runversary because I was injured and cranky. I missed the First Race prompt a few weeks ago...
View ArticleWhat a week
like all of us, Coronavirus dominated my world. Not to say it’s anything like Hiroshima, but the blossoms there always reminded me of resiliency, and them blooming here this week gives me hope. Lots to...
View ArticleFood, medicine and exercise
I won’t lie. I’m selfishly glad that the New York lockdown specifically permits exercise. I think we all need it to stay healthy, and solo running is no different to other necessary activities. I’m oh...
View ArticleWe didn’t need dialogue. We had faces!
Edit: this post was half written, and then we lost a dear colleague to COVID19 and I deleted a lot as it became irrelevant. Pardon the random collection of what’s left. I’m OK, just sad. He was an...
View ArticleC is for…
Coffee Chocolate Cookie Consistency CARI! Covid-19 Bold are my favorites in general, but the one I’m most proud of and linking up to talk about as we kick off April is CONSISTENCY After my run on...
View ArticleAdulting in the time of COVID19
some of this was scrapped from last week. Things I’m proud of so far, quite random and in no particular order and definitely about a 0.5 on a 0-10 of Covid19 preparedness: my apartment is finally...
View ArticleFinding Forward
This week was all over the place. I’m healthy and safe, as are my family and friends, so that’s where I’m going to leave the CV19 talk. I hope the same is true for you and your loved ones. I think many...
View ArticleTiptoe through the tulips
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~ John Muir Walking was the (planned) name of the game this week, and Mother Nature mostly came through. The knee/hip is feeling better,...
View ArticleIs this over yet?
Not a serious question. We all know it’s a long way from over, but I’m really beginning to feel this acutely. This was A WEEK. And it seemed universally so. I was on a working group call early Friday...
View ArticleA Very Productive Week
remember last week when I said I was going to move the AC so I could sit under my desk? Yeah, that turned into a completely rearranged room to create a living room and home office. Side effects: No...
View Articleit may or may not be May
did someone ask Mother Nature what month it was? As I think I mentioned here a few weeks ago, my neighbors are suing one another and the landlord suing them for one’s refusal to stop smoking cigarettes...
View Articlemeandering through May
9,647th blog “redesign” in the last six months. None intentional, but I think comments finally fully not broken. Whee! It was driving me bonkers not…
View Articleode to an IT Band
“There was an old man called Michael Finn-egan, Ran a race and tried to win again. Got so puffed that he had to go in…
View Articleis there summer in Quarantime?
Facebook memories were hard to look at last weekend and throughout the week. Staying home is the best way to control COVID 19 spread, but…
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