Kickin’ It Off

Last year my fitness goals were an epic failure. I've come to terms with that and am moving past it. Normally I set my goals for the upcoming year during the last couple of weeks in December and get everything lined out. This year I took a different approach. I have had an idea of …

The Law Of Averages

I headed off to the Y last night to go to my kickboxing class. I even bought new fingerless boxing gloves so I didn't have to borrow a pair from the instructor. As luck would have it, and as often happens with my best laid plans, there was a little glitch. The class was full …

Global Running Day 2019

Got up before work to make sure that I got a run in on this Global Running Day. The girls will be at my house tonight to bake a cake, so I feel fairly confident that if I didn't do my run this morning that it wouldn't get done. I haven't missed a run on …

Running With Dogs

It's my little guy's birthday today. He's four.   He's supposed to be all mellow and laid back and what-not. He's not. He's crazy and energetic and everything a Bernese Mountain Dog is NOT supposed to be. My freak-boy. Being a not-normal-BMD has its benefits. I can take him for runs with me, providing it's …

Luck Of The Irish

I don't normally run races in my town. Not because I don't want to, but because they're rarely available. Every year the color run comes here, and there's a pretty good turn out, but the last two races I registered for here were, shall we say, less than stellar. So I should have known better. …

Training For Nothing

For the past two-ish years (since January 2017) I've been in a non-stop cycle of training for one thing or another. When I had the cold from Hell after my race last December and was pretty much knocked on my ass for a couple of months my workouts went right out the window. With the …

How Fast Is Too Fast

I follow a blog and read this post last year, then got sick and wasn't able to incorporate it until now: https://mileswithmeghann.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/10-minute-fat-burning-treadmill-workout/ I was intrigued, but knew that as it was lined out, there was no way I could do the whole thing in one fell swoop. So in true Cristy fashion, I adjusted it …