Life and Other Stuff
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Movement! Spin, run, swim, dance, instructing, training, picking up heavy things!
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Remember that Chumbawumba ear worm? It’s been knocking around my brain for the past few weeks. Let’s start by establishing the fact that everything I’m about to spew is not earth shattering. It’s not about the horrors that are happening on the daily in the world and on the news. It’s simply the noise of…
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Whenever this silly event rolls around, I hem and haw about how many miles to do, how to fit it into the weekend events and errands, how long it will take, etc. PeloFondo is an endurance event where cyclists all over the Peloton world pledge to ride a specific number of miles/kilometers and have 2…
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Although I dipped my toe in the vegetarian end of the pool as a teenager, I had never eaten tofu until I firmly committed in 2017 to do the plant based thing. The first time I purchased it, the sad white block sat in my fridge untouched until the expiry date and it was tossed.…
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I rode my bike this morning, in a class I’d done previously. I love repeating classes in the Peloton catalog on demand, because it gives tangible evidence of progress. You can literally race your past self up the leaderboard. I find it, along with silly digital badges, incredibly motivating. I thought about my 2021 self…
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PeloFondo is an endurance event where participants pledge to ride x number of miles, then set about doing them over 1 or 2 days of a weekend. There are other events over the year, including a running event as well as a simulated cycling climb. This weekend was PeloFondo. In 2020 I pledged 30 miles,…
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The days are long but the years are short as they say, and the cliche rings true. Hard to believe there’s enough one day at a times strung together to add up to 7 whole years, but here we are. Over these 7 years I’m more comfortable in my skin than ever before. Saying no…
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Today marks my 208 week streak (4 years!) with Peloton. It’s no secret that dumb things motivate. Hello?! I ride a bike in my house that goes nowhere and get virtual badges for my efforts. On paper – I get it. SO. DUMB. But…it works. This is the longest stretch of consistency with nutrition and…
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I have started more than a few organized running programs, such as Couch-to-5k and others from famous running coaches and apps – but I’ve never completed any of them in 13+ years of running. Because dumb things motivate me, such as virtual badges of achievement, I started yet another program, only this time it was…
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It’s no mystery that being outdoors is amazing medicine for our mental health. Personally, it’s been an oft-used tool in the anti-depressant toolkit. (Moving closer to the equator had a big role in that as well!) We started this thing in a fitness group chat called HRPs, or Happy Run Photos, that morphed into Happy…
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I had planned to do a couple of runs a few days ago. Well over halfway done with an 8-week running program, the kids’ spring break demolished my carefully laid plans to workout. I used to run all the time. Over a decade ago, I ran multiple times per week and cross trained with bootcamp…
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