This tree reminds me to have fun when I’m training. Play! Laugh! Stop and admire the pregnant trees! It isn’t always fun. Correction: every bit of it is fun until the running makes me feel nauseous. I don’t understand this phenomenon. I can bike, ski or skate for miles, do dozens of push-ups, sit-ups, squat […]

Today`s Training: • 3 1-mile laps on my bike • 800 m run • Circuit: monkey bars, pine forest dash, monkey bars, crawl under the trampoline • 5 laps of the tires. At this point, I walked because I was tired. (13 1/2 mins??!!) • Rolled the four tires from the garage to the back corner […]

Today’s Training: 2 1-mile laps on my bike 2 warrior loops: 800 m run Crawl under trampoline, run, crawl 20 dips, 25 crunches, 10 situps Forest run 2 laps of the tires Lyric of the Day: “You’re the only road that I know, You show me where to go”, Drive my Soul, Lights On the […]

Today’s Training: 1 1-mile lap on my feet, running 3 1-mile laps walking Yeah, I know lame. Brings up guilt I still for walking a section of the course in the GB cross-country finals in 1982. You’d think a person would let go of things like that, but no, I can still see the coach […]

Warrior Dash! Today’s Training: 2 1-mile laps on my bike 3 warrior circuits: a dash through the pine forest, dodging low-hanging, eyeball-threatening branches, 5 laps of the tires (and may I point out that is uphill) Sprint to the playground , and clamber across the monkey bars and back again 2 1-mile laps on my […]

Today’s Training: 3 1-mile laps on my bike 1 1-mile lap on my feet, running 1 1-mile lap alternately walking and sprinting 1 1-mile cooldown lap on my bike, and a ceremonial lap around the yard, weaving between the maple trees and taking it at a dead-run through the pine forest trail.   I would like […]

  It began innocuously enough. An email from my step-daughter to my husband containing a single link and nothing else: Warrior Dash. My husband forwarded this link to myself, our daughters and sons-in-law. He added a cryptic and subtly challenging message: “I am game if anyone else goes then count me in.” Warrior. Dash. You’d […]