Woke up this morning to two purring cats snuggled on either side of me. Brandon had just left for the annual bike gathering at Tortilla Flat, so I grabbed my laptop and curled back up under the blankets with the cats to do some "first of the year" planning. Chiefly, I updated my SparkPeople account and re-set my Mint budgets. Goals for weight ( Read more... )

So the year is halfway over, and I thought I'd sum up my New Year's goals progress:

Part One: Things Accomplished

- Complete the New Rules of Lifting book.
It took me about a year to go through all of the workouts, even without doing the interval rests as prescribed. Not sure what to focus on lifting-wise now - maybe I'll get a new book?

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I thought I'd break my updates up into sections to evaluate how I've been doing on my New Year Resolutions.( Cut for blathering about food and weight and flossing. )

I'm no longer Catholic by any stretch of the imagination, but I will always love Mardi Gras season. I'll never forget that time leef and I took my brother out of high school to use up his "college search" days on a trip to New Orleans during Mardi Gras week. Or the year that trly_g0n_fishng and I stayed up all night to make costumes to wear to the Rex parade. Or ( Read more... )

Here's my master list of goals for 2011.

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- I bench pressed 100 pounds yesterday. The lift wasn't beautiful, but I did it. That's a new personal best! I hope to be able to bench my body weight by the end of March ( Read more... )

This post has been germinating in my head for a while now.

I took up running as a challenge last year ffrom padge. My foot had been out of a cast for about three or four months, and while I'd done a bit of hiking and minor rehab work, I was still in recovery mode. He asked me to see how far I could go on a treadmill - speed didn't matter, just ( Read more... )