An urbanathalon is a middle distance running course (9-11 miles) with obstacle courses mixed in. Guaranteed to require travel over construction walls, under police barricades, over tires, up a lot of steps, down a lot more steps, through monkey bars, and at least 6 wall-type hurdles to climb over. I did this race in 08, but… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
I’ve grown to love running without my ipod. It brings me back to when I trained for & ran the Chicago Marathon, and the only way to listen to portable music was to haul around one of those belts that held your cd player. For 20+ miles? No thank you! Sure an ipod is nice for… [Read more…]
August 27, 2010
What an incredible place to run! My pictures can’t do justice to the beautiful bay that Reykjavik sits on that leads out into the Atlantic Ocean…mountains rising up out of the lava rock on the distant coast…European style lining the streets in the cars, people, buildings….a BMW SUV pulling directly in front of you at… [Read more…]
August 18, 2010
This blog will be on hiatus & will resume regular broadcasting on Wed 8/25 after my return from the land of Bjork i.e. Iceland. Hard to believe I’m fulfilling my dream of going to Iceland so early in my lifetime – but thrilled to be doing so! And in the summer too, when the sun barely sets… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
ESP or the Voice of God. Both? Neither? Who knows? So I have this pair of diamond drop earrings that if you know me, you’ve seen me wear 4,375 times because they are so dear to my heart & are just beautiful to me, they are just about the only pair I wear (although I… [Read more…]
July 11, 2010
We’ve been so pumped about cramming as much into this Iceland trip (because really, I mean when am I going back to Iceland? and will it happen before the volcano blows the whole country into the water?) that I just realized yesterday that we may have not left enough time to get workouts in leading… [Read more…]
July 4, 2010
I spent the last 4 days in the middle of nowhere – and had to run a 1/2 marathon distance long run while in nowhere. Well, not really nowhere. ‘Nowhere’ was actually Redbud Motorcross Track in Buchanan, MI where I was for the Pro National Motorcross Race from Thurs-Sunday of the 4th of July wknd.… [Read more…]
June 19, 2010
My head is a little mushy right now so you’re being treated to my workout report & realizations of the day. I decided this morning that I’d move up my long run (11 mi) from Sun morning to Sat evening after work. I swear, my brain makes up challenges just for the sake of making… [Read more…]
May 15, 2010
October 2008 was the last time I ran a race. I had been running (just normal person running , no elite running here!) since 2003 & have done every distance up to & through a marathon. At the end of 2008, work life was taking a big turn & something took me away from running.… [Read more…]
April 16, 2010
Enjoy the change in layout! It’s been almost 8 mths (that’s it??) that Fit for Real Life has existed…and just like a girl needs a new purse every so often (or a guy needs a new…..remote? grill?) every now & then, it was time to freshen things up a bit. Enjoy! Thanks for being such… [Read more…]
October 16, 2010
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