30 Before 30: Run 5K in under 30 minutes Complete 5 races (4/5) Exercise 5 days a week for three months (31/60) We’re at the halfway point on the exercising front, and I am definitely seeing progress. Clothes are finally looser. I sleep better. That said, I am not going to beat myself up if [...]
So, months and months of bootcamp were thwarted by dehydration and allergies during yesterday’s 5K, and I finished eight minutes after Stephen, who hasn’t run since November, did. After doing okay initially, my heartrate monitor started beeping like crazy around the half-mile mark and I had to slow to a brisk walk. Until the three-mile [...]
This weekend was one of those strange weekends where you manage to do nothing and a lot, all at once. We took in a playoff hockey game on Friday night, and on Saturday I bought a new duffel bag for my workout gear at REI, stopped in on Laura’s PodCamp session, ran intervals on the [...]
Today was like being dropped into an ice bath: it knocked the wind out of me and left me wanting to curl up under the blankets. All the more reason I’m proud of myself for not only going to bootcamp, but upping the weights during the strength training portion of intervals today even if I [...]
I’m short on patience these days — which is not news, and I’m sure I’ve said it before. Maybe it’s one of those end-of-your-twenties things, the pressure of the bud before the bloom my thirties have been promised to be by so many older friends. I think complaints should come with a plan of action [...]
My bootcamp instructor pulled me aside after Wednesday’s workout and told me he’d noticed that my performance has really improved over previous attempts at bootcamp. That morning, the one coworker who has to be camera-ready every day told me she liked my makeup. I wasn’t wearing any. And I had to significantly tighten my heartrate [...]
The challenge, on bootcamp days, is to eat enough. Especially carbs. I feel it in my recovery – what’s supposed to be just strength training ends up with me having a cardio-level heart rate, and cardio turns into recovery – but there are just days when you end up cramming three hard-boiled egg whites in [...]
I’d love to be asleep, but between bootcamp and dinner and getting cleaned up and starting laundry, it was later than I’d have liked by the time I actually started making tomorrow’s lunch. That’s something that requires much more forethought and planning than I’d realized it would until today, when I was walking through the [...]
30 Before 30 things I have a definitive plan to complete in the next month: Complete 5 races (3/5) Attend one networking event per month (12/15) Pay off our student loans (4/5) Things that will be checked off before Memorial Day: Go to the gym 5 days a week for three months (10/60) Attend 5 [...]
I spent my midday at the yoga studio participating in a Yoga and Creative Writing workshop, which turned out to be “spend a moment jotting down a thought or two while catching your breath instead of just lying in child’s pose” more than the promised writing workshop, but I think it counts as a writing [...]