Every so often, it will be 4:30 am on a Friday morning and I will be sitting in my car in the driveway debating on whether or not my spin class will miss me if I don’t show up. Actually, it is most Friday mornings. Because I fit training and fitness instruction around a full… Read More…
The massage therapist who didn’t give a massage
One thing I am finding out about myself as I grow into my adult life is that I don’t trust my decisions enough. I am still learning everything there is to know about me as an adult. I knew me pretty well as a teenager, but there is nothing like belly flopping into the real… Read More…
Fitness Friday: Going Against the Grain
I think about you. I really do. In my head, you are a much more demanding audience then you are in real life and I spend my driving time thinking of what I am going to say next, especially on weeks like this one when I am feeling uninspired. Most weeks, I have it all… Read More…
Interview with Kathryn Bertine
We literally are all the way back to Friday again. I could not be happier. This week has been utter and complete madness for me. I will not lament but rather focus on awesomer things. So a while back, I gave away a book. Yes, I am STILL on about Kathryn Bertine. The woman is… Read More…
Fitness Friday: the only place you can look normal with neon padded shorts
Hey everyone. It’s the almost WEEKEND! Fridays are always very full for me. I get up at 4 am and teach two classes before heading into the office. I don’t mind the early wake up, because my first class of the day is spin, which leads me to the blog theme today… Teaching spin is… Read More…
On being a fitness instructor (it’s a lot cheaper to just buy a warmer sweater…)
I became a fitness instructor by accident. Really. I took a job at a local gym and while my coworkers bounced, jumped and twirled in the near by studio, I filed papers, answered phones and well, cleaned bathrooms. It wasn’t that I thought it was going to be a glamorous job, but I was also… Read More…
Dynamic Warm Ups
Apparently you guys have shin splints. I understand your pain. This week, I have a wretched knee injury which came from too much trail running and too little stretching; a small little nudge from my knee went very quickly from “It’s nothing” to “OMGIamdying” pain in short order. My bad. So I have been proofing the… Read More…
Shin Splints
I received an email with a question on what causes shin splints and how to treat them. Shin splints are pain in the leg below the knee and above the ankle. It often happens late in the training season for athletes due to overtraining and to new runners who are starting out after a period… Read More…
Why I run [long distances]
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I wrote the original “Why I Run” post here. Some of the feedback I received was that you were “relieved to hear a true reason of motivation”. And that is just it, it is a deep motivation. Yesterday, I did my time trial with my varsity cross country team. I whined to our physical therapist… Read More…
Injured?
I have been getting some emails lately regarding injury, especially related to running. It is unavoidable if you are engaged in a sport, especially if you are just starting out or are increasing your training volume or intensity. But there is a bright side to injury. After last cross country season, I had an IT… Read More…
