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…]
September 12, 2010
You want small results? Take small steps. As a fitness pro, I hear the most ridiculous excuses (they are excuses) from people who would like to say that they are ‘still moving forward’ on this whole happy, healthy, fit life thing but are really fooling themselves into thinking the most miniscule lifestyle improvements are making… [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…]
July 25, 2010
As you may know, I’ve decided to run a 1/2 Marathon in August – in Iceland. Having been away from racing of any kind since 2008, this was a welcome challenge, and for the first few months of committing to this goal – lots of fun! And now that it’s been a few more months… [Read more…]
March 4, 2010
This post has been in me for a few weeks, tumbling around as I navigated the vast array of “stuff” I’ve committed to in my life. As my mother put it, “you’ve sure got a lot of pots on the stove, my dear.” Yes, that is true. And thus why RK Tip of the Week yesterday… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
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