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…
Hello? Is thing on? Where the heck have I been? The past three or four months have been a very difficult time for me. I was lost for a while. I wasn’t just lost to the blog, I was also lost to myself. When people commit to making a lifestyle change for fitness and better…
How did I become this impatient with myself? I’m competing in my second Highland Games this weekend. It’s part of the local Renaissance Faire. When I think about throwing this weekend, I get mental. I’m coping by mostly not thinking about it. I’ve kept myself busy this week. I started a part-time new job, and…
A few weeks ago, I found myself standing next to a horse barn at the fairgrounds in Odessa, Texas. My hands are chest-high, balancing a giant wooden log on its end. The pole is about 10 feet long and weighs around 28 pounds. Imagine that I’m the only support holding up a telephone…
Hey baby, we’re back! I have been through every emotion imaginable trying to get my old static web page transformed into a blog-ified interactive experience. I’ve been everywhere in between inspired, excited, depressed, embarrassed, and humbled by my own ignorance. When I took the old web page down, I thought it was only going to…