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A Productive Week It has been such a productive week! My husband and I both got on a roll with cleaning out the house, and it feels incredible to have made so much progress. There is something so therapeutic about clearing out the “mental weight” that comes with physical clutter. We spent our spare time […]
Taking Time off from Work As we say goodbye to the old year and ring in the new one, we were in the midst of that lull week where not much was going on. Between many of my clients being out of town, and me taking time off to enjoy my family for the holidays, […]
Christmas Celebrations Our family is in the middle of Christmas festivities this weekend. After celebrating Christmas Eve with local family before church, the out-of-town kids arrived on Friday. Tonight is book night, an annual event where our family goes out to dinner first and then hits up the book store so everyone picks out books […]
A New Peloton Bike+ My husband and I had been contemplating purchasing a Peloton bike for a while, and finally made the decision when we saw a great deal during Peloton’s Black Friday sale. So far I’ve taken a two beginner rides and a core strength class. Shorter, more intense rides will be a part […]
The Cold Has Arrived It was a cold week in our neck of the woods and I’m becoming more of a wimp with every single day older I get. As Sunday’s dawn approaches, it’s snowing gently and the feels like temperature is 16°. As much as I’m an outdoorsy kind of girl, I’m incredibly grateful […]
Christmas PSA I strained my back on Tuesday while wrapping two kettle bells (26 and 31 pounds) while kneeling on the floor… I thought it would be much easier to wrap them on the floor than lift them up onto the kitchen island where I do a lot of my wrapping. When I told Kim about […]
Running and Cuddling On Thursday I laced up my running shoes for the first time in almost two years when I joined my family to run in our local turkey trot. I stuck with the 2K and was no worse for the wear after the slow and steady run. Meanwhile back home, Pablo was holding […]
A Little Bit of Everything This week brought about a little bit of everything, everywhere. We started the week still visiting our son and daughter-in-law in Charolette, NC, followed by three days at the farm in SWVA, and finally making our way back home. Workouts took a backseat mid-week, but those easier days were bookended […]
Birthday Week It was my birthday week and if you’ve been reading my blog for long you know what that means – riding my bike the same number of miles as the years I’m turning and walking or running some variation on that number. Last Saturday I rode 68 miles on my bike because the […]
Early Birthday Bike Ride This past week was the week before my birthday and if you’ve been reading my blog for long you know what that means – riding my bike the same number of miles as the years I’m turning, and walking or running some variation on that number. Normally, I would have completed […]
New Garmin Watch After months of research trying to find the best Garmin watch for my needs, I settled on the Lily 2 Active. It’s small enough to wear everyday, but includes features I need that my previous Garmin didn’t have – the only options with it were run, run indoor, bike, and other. Now […]
Visiting Two More National Parks Our timing was a little off for seeing leaves at their peak fall color while visiting New River Gorge National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Of course, when planning a trip several months in advance, it’s impossible to know exactly when fall will be in its full glory. […]
Losing My Mom My brother and I lost our mom this week. It will take me a while to write a tribute worthy of what she meant to our family and the community… Overview of the Week Before getting into each day’s workouts, here’s an overview of my workouts from this past week. Scroll […]
Lifting Again After a few weeks of taking it easy, I’m back on track with both my cardio and lifting. Cardio didn’t really take a hit during my recovery from two minor skin cancer surgeries, but lifting certainly did and it felt fabulous to be back to regular workouts even if I had to cut […]
Back Outside After spending three weeks stuck inside on my spin bike, I was tickled to get back outside on my road bike! The weather was perfect and the company was even better (my husband) and we had a fantastic ride. Overview of the Week Before getting into each day’s workouts, here’s an overview […]
Back Outside Soon? I’m still on my spin bike, but should be back outside next week, maybe even later today. I’ll start with relatively flat routes – the slightest reach or lift over my head with my right arm pulls on my wound which isn’t something I need to do on my bike unless I’m […]
Keeping it Inside Even though I saw a couple of clients on Labor Day, my whole week was thrown off and I never knew what day of the week it was. I took advantage of the beautiful weather for a couple of walks outside, but I’m still stuck inside on my spin bike until my […]
Front-Loading My Week With plans to travel out of town to attend our niece’s wedding I front-loaded my week’s workouts as best I could. I had to finagle things a bit to work around a minor surgery, but it all worked out and even gave me a little extra rest time. Overview of the Week […]
Rain, Rain Finally Went Away The highlight of the week was Sunday’s 3/4-century ride which happened on one of the few dry days of the past week. Well, dry until that evening when it absolutely poured rain for a few hours. We were then treated to misty, drizzly weather until Friday when we finally saw […]
Getting Back on Track After a super fun week with our family together most nights for dinner, things were back to normal with just my husband and me. And although both of our sons’ families and my husband and I normally eat very healthy, there was a pizza party, dinner out where I ordered chicken […]
