I've been pondering laziness lately ( Read more... )

So I did my first "tempo run" today. The instructions are to run 5 miles. The first mile is warm up. The next three miles are to be run at a 9:28 minute per mile pace, and then the last mile is cool down. My mile breakdown isn't all that exact, but here's how I did ( Read more... )

This week has sucked. It was supposed to be a good week. A short week even, since I had Monday off for MLK day. But it has just *DRAGGED*. This morning, I woke up before my alarm with a parched mouth. Dinner last night had been rather salty (but oh-so-tasty!) and I was dehydrated. I knew I had to get up and go run 3 miles. I wanted to stay right ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again. So, where do I want to be by next time this year? My Goals for the coming year ( Read more... )

So my whole plan was to get an MBA with a concentration in finance, go be a hedge fund manager for a few years, make ridiculous amounts of money, then "retire" to just being a personal financial consultant or something and do the things I love (riding, travel, kayaking, backpacking) for the rest of my life ( Read more... )

I was thinking about some of my goals. Things I'd like to accomplish. Things like participating in a triathlon, becoming a really good rock climber, being good at playing piano and violin, being really fit, learning some languages, being an excellent equestrian, becoming a fantastic knitter, crocheter and seamstress, be a good skier, go hiking, ( Read more... )

I decided I was going to do push-ups for every point scored in the Colts-Chargers game. Alas, I only made it through half time before falling asleep. The Colts let me down. I did do 7 push-ups, and then 10 though. 17 total ( Read more... )

A bright shiney new year! And a blanket of snow to go along with it.

To all my friends making resolutions, I challenge you all to turn those resolutions into SMART goalsSummary of the major points from the above link are ( Read more... )

Got up this morning to do some push-ups and stretching and crunches ( Read more... )

I did push-ups again this morning. I thought I'd just do a few, to sorta keep my muscles from relaxing *too* much, but I was able to do ten again! This time, I started wobbling at number 8, last time it started getting hard after 5.

Football on Sunday. By next week, I'll have beaten my previous record of 11. *nods*