I intended Thursdays to be my “off day” only in that I wouldn’t work out on Thursdays, but today felt like going for gold. I woke up early and couldn’t go back to sleep, I got to work early, I left work late because I was in the zone and didn’t have to leave for [...]

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 week is conspiring against my wellness efforts. First, my seasonal allergies that always flare up at the end of April/beginning of May were flaring up so much that I skipped bootcamp Monday morning, then a rainy forecast led me to switch to evening bootcamp today. It turned out to be lovely all morning. I [...]

I’ve been tired and distracted all day. Even though I got eight hours of sleep. I think it’s allergies, in part – I am, after all, doing mat work outside at the exact time grass is doing it – but also it’s adjusting to the new normal of kickstarting my metabolism at dawn. Ordinarily, a [...]

Today was the first day of morning bootcamp. Clearly, I survived. I don’t think I was awake enough to realize that I was exercising – definitely not until I was in the middle of my eighth modified push-up on my yoga rug, which I’d spread out over the dew-covered overgrown outfield. Then I thought, “Wait, [...]

So today this happened a few feet away from my office: After the water was shut off, I ended up spending the afternoon working from the coffee shop. It was surprisingly productive. I’m not sure if it was the change of scenery, the loud hipster music I’d never choose for myself, or the blast of [...]

Food is fuel. This is something actual athletes remember but something I never quite learned. Growing up, the only vegetables at our dinner table were iceberg lettuce and canned corn. The only time we ate broccoli was as part of a casserole called “broccoli bake,” where it was drowned in cream of mushroom soup and [...]

Not even a late-afternoon glass from a coworker’s Diet Coke stash could lift me out of the riptide of exhaustion that pulled me under the moment I got home. I put my things down, removed my jewelry and shoes, and dove into bed for the serious business of an underwear nap at 5 p.m. I’ve [...]

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 [...]

The wake-up light actually works! I was up and out of bed a full 90 minutes earlier than usual. I did a load of laundry before work. I crushed my to-do list into cinders. I was able to keep using the heavier weights at the gym. I grocery shopped! I put together a healthy dinner [...]