Here’s an update for how I’m doing on the Holiday Fitness Challenge. If you missed the post where I described how I lost my mind and signed up for not one, but two Holiday Challenges, be sure to catch up. Healthy for the Holidays This is the challenge we are doing at work. We are…
To put it kindly, I have been struggling with the motivation to work out. I can think of a million excuses, but all of them end up with me looking like this. Seriously, if you aren’t following The Oatmeal and all of this Blerchy goodness, you are missing out. I signed up for two…
Just Do It. It’s so cliché. And also… sometimes it’s pretty solid advice. Running errands around the neighborhood, I keep seeing these signs for a local 5K. The first time I saw the sign, I thought, “I should look up that race.” And I promptly forgot the name of the race and the website. I…
The first thing I’d like you to know is: my hamstrings are sore. But that’s good, right? All right, so here’s what you need to know to catch you up with where we are now. Here’s a short list of the major life changes I’ve made in the last three months- my divorce was finalized;…
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. When I was taking this opportunity to remember my Dad, I was thinking about how he indirectly inspired my career in fitness. It’s a tale of irony and coincidence… pull up a chair. People have always said that I look more like my Dad than my…
Today is National Running Day. National Running Day, held annually on the first Wednesday in June, is a day when runners everywhere declare their passion for running. Wherever we are and whomever we’re with, we run—fast or slow, alone or with others, all over town or just around the block. It is a coast-to-coast celebration…
This weekend I competed in the Highland Games at the Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival and Highland Games. It was a two-day event. On the first day the festival hosted the Masters World Championship, where the top Scottish Heavy athletes from all over the world blew our minds and smashed numerous World Records. I worked…
This past weekend I had the privilege to work at the Masters World Championships for Scottish Heavy Athletics. The MWC was hosted by New Mexico Celtic Athletics, and was held at the Rio Grande Celtic Festival and Highland Games in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have been involved with Scottish Heavy Athletics for less than a…
It has been a rough week, both for myself individually, and for our country. Frankly, I’m exhausted. It’s taken a long time for me to be able to call myself this, but yes, I am a runner. My friends are runners too. So many runners hold the Boston Marathon sacred. Running it is their life-long…
Welcome back to Blog Wednesdays. What, you’ve never heard of Blog Wednesdays? Oh, of course, uhm, I didn’t really tell you about them. Well… without telling you (so I wouldn’t put too much pressure on myself), I made a goal for myself that I was going to write at least one blog post per week,…