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Settling Back into the Routine Talk about a week of transitions! Between navigating a scorching mid-90s heatwave and a total weekend washout, the theme of the week was all about adapting, staying productive, and finding the silver lining. After spending a week away to officially close on the childhood farm, it felt wonderful to settle […]
A Final Chapter of Stewardship Selling my parents’ farm has been a labor of love that has been as much about physical endurance as about emotional transition. Preparing the ranch house, out buildings, and its acreage for the market has meant balancing hours of manual labor—cleaning, organizing, and even transplanting cherished flowers—with the bittersweet reality […]
Peloton Straight to the Core Progress After starting Rebecca Kennedy’s 4-Week Straight to the Core Peloton program with a benchmark test on April 10th, I officially wrapped things up with the final test this past Wednesday. Below are the results and comparisons from both tests. Program Dates: April 10 – May 6 Exercise Benchmark Final […]
Two Wheels, Two Feet, One Busy Week I tried to get some extra time in the saddle this past week to climb out of last place on our Dawn Patrol team for the Great American Ride – I did and I’m now in next to last place. The extra cycling definitely helped, but it threw […]
A Wide Range of Workouts This week’s workouts were plentiful and covered the whole gamut, from my usual walks, cycling, and strength training to a fun dose of functional training in the yard. I spent a good portion of two afternoons working in my garden and thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Between the blooming dogwoods and […]
Runners of All Ages Monday evening I met my runner girlfriends for dinner – there are seven of us who still get together even though some of us are no longer running. It had been way too long since we’d last gotten together and we promised we’d meet up again sooner rather than later. Somehow […]
Spring Has Sprung Spring is absolutely in full bloom here and everything looks stunning and my allergies are well aware of it. I have to say, though, that I’m quite lucky that my spring allergies are nowhere nearly as bad as a many people I know and I’m able to be outside without too many […]
Trouble Falling Asleep Sleep has been eluding me recently, and it’s a bit of a mystery. I’m usually the type who falls asleep the second my head hits the pillow, but this past week, I’ve spent at least an hour tossing and turning before drifting off. My sleep hygiene is solid—no caffeine, low stress, a […]
The 25-Mile Badge that Turned into 33 My Friday workout was a comedy of errors with a high-mileage plot twist! There was a Garmin 40K cycling badge up for grabs, and I had the perfect strategy: a 30-minute Peloton ride followed by a spin on my other bike while catching up on reading blogs. I […]
A Little Bit of Everything This week truly had a little bit of everything. We started off with Pablo still visiting – he was the perfect supervisor while I tackled some much-needed garden cleanup. He absolutely loved lounging in the yard with me, though it’s a shame dogs don’t have opposable thumbs, or I definitely […]
Staycationing This year, we decided on a change of pace and spent spring break enjoying the comforts of our own ‘Airbnb’ at home. The house was full and lively after Pablo and his family arrived Thursday, followed by the rest of the crew on Friday. We spent the week exploring local gems, hiking through parks […]
Spring Projects I’ve been on a roll with spring projects lately! In case you missed Friday’s post, I shared the two updated walls in my basement gym, which are now home to new National Parks galleries. Swapping out the old race decor meant a full day of prepping the walls—filling nail holes, sanding, and repainting. […]
The Loss of a Legend I first met American Olympian and author Jeff Galloway shortly after becoming a coach for the National AIDS Marathon Training Program in Washington, DC. Jeff personally trained our coaching staff to use his signature Run-Walk-Run method to prepare our athletes for the Marine Corps Marathon. Developed in 1976, Jeff’s program […]
National Margarita Day Happy National Margarita Day! Not only is today my husband’s birthday, it’s also National Margarita Day! I always tease him by telling him that I prefer celebrating the national day more than his birthday. Of course, we celebrate his birthday with a margarita. Well, I do, he might choose another drink. While […]
Sunshine and Workouts We’re half way into February and the month is flying by. The weather has been nothing short of fabulous most days here in southern Florida. We spend the greater part of most days outdoors and once we made it to Naples last weekend, we were able to pack our winter clothes away. […]
So Long Cold, Hello Warmth January flew by and we’re now in what always seems like the longest month of the year to me, February. This year; however, we’re south of Virginia for over half of the month. I’m hoping our later than usual annual trip to Florida will give us plenty of warmth and […]
Fall Hiking, What’s Next? Just this past week I finished and published my last two hiking recaps from our fall trip to Smoky Mountain National Park just in time for our next adventure! Overview of the Week Before getting into each day’s workouts, here’s an overview of my workouts from this past week. Scroll […]
Settling in With Peloton Classes Six weeks in and I’ve been having fun trying several different types of classes with Peloton. I’m trying to take classes from a wide variety of instructors to see whose classes I enjoy most. I especially appreciated being able to continue my stretching classes while at the farm by using […]
Another Productive Week Between dropping off donations and continuing my home organization, it’s been a productive week. In addition to all that organization, I worked (part-time), made time for my workouts, hosted a friend for dinner on Tuesday, met another for lunch on Friday, and wrapped up the week with some quality family time. Making […]
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 […]
