Fitness Fashionista – The OCD Edition.

What’s wrong with these pictures? The problem is my shoes. My sports bra is black. My top is pale blue.  My tights are black with a pale blue accent.  My socks, while white, have pale blue accents. The scrunchie in my hair is black. But my shoes… my shoes are white and pink. They don’t [...]

Why I work with a trainer…

One good reason: Avoiding humiliation… And another: Avoiding injury… (Oh, and of course, the number one reason is that I adore you, Mike. Really…)

Maple Bacon… Coffee?

At last. Bacon that fits within the confines of my diet. Count me in. Light Roast Flavored Coffee – Maple Bacon Morning Coffee.

Proof that there’s just too much jiggle in my wiggle…

Thursday March 11 Cardio. There I was, happily running intervals on the treadmill, bopping to the tunes emanating from the nano hooked over the back of my pants – when suddenly my little ipod decided to stage a jail break. It managed to manoeuver its way out of its little case, spit the earbuds out [...]

The Body/Brain Divide. Monday January 18 Workout.

I am so not a morning person. Oh, it’s not that I don’t get up early. I do. Six a.m. is my usual wake-up time, seven days a week. And it’s not that I don’t have an appreciation for the quiet stillness of the morning hours, or the beauty of the sunrise. I have. It’s [...]

Muscle Dogs

Thursday was a rest day for me (a New Year’s resolution. We’ll see how long it lasts…) And so, in lieu of my usual workout stats, I decided to post this photo of my training cohorts. A few years ago, I spent a lot of time involved in a different kind of training – dog [...]

How to tell its laundry day…

…  nothing coordinates and you can’t decide what colour your scrunchie  should match… I went with black. Because, really, it’s all about the fashion…

Living with a lunatic (that’s a synonym for triathlete…)

Looks like I’m due for another session of  “Thursdays with Mikey” as I missed my usual Wednesday session yesterday. I decided to be a grown-up,  a rather rare occurrence from the gym-rat point of view, and gave my body another day to recuperate (yeah, okay, we won’t talk about the attempted run…). It seems to [...]

Fat Guy is my Inspiration

I finally did it. Took a deep breath, squinched my eyes shut, and stepped on the scale. Peeked through one half-closed eyelid and burst into tears. Figuratively speaking, of course. The damage? 108.2 lbs. It probably doesn’t sound like much, especially to someone like my man, Fat Guy, who thinks skinny people suck. But you [...]

That Crash You Heard Was Just Me- Falling Off The Wagon

Ah, Austin. I love Austin. This anomaly of a city is, as the announcer at the Long Horn so succinctly put it, a blue dot in a sea of red. I am sure that is why I love it so – just like I am, it is a laid-back little misfit, happily grooving to its [...]