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,…
Confession of a fitness newbie: I didn’t know how to wash my hats. Before I was active, I never used to wear hats at all. I thought that hats looked perfectly fine on other people, but on me, they looked dumb. Even when I lived in southern New Mexico, I opted against wearing a hat…
I’ve been hanging around fitness professionals long enough for me to realize that I’m a different kind of coach. Don’t take this the wrong way, most fitness coaches I know are awesome… it’s just that many of them seem to have a similar story: involved in athletics since childhood, they’ve always been fit, and they…
I suck at self-care. This startling revelation comes as no surprise to people who know me in real life. A freind shot me a little message today: ur blog ain’t workin’. Yep. I haven’t been posting according to the schedule that I want. I have thought about what I want to do, but thinking isn’t…
I started writing this post months ago, but never finished it. If you want to know why I wasn’t posting, read this. The Santa Fe Highland Games took place on Sept 22, 2012. I competed in my second Highland Games last week. I’ve been wanting to write about it, but I haven’t quite figured out…