Category: Weekly Recap

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! If you’re curious about the Appalachian Trail or enjoy beautiful waterfalls, check out my recaps: • Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Two Iconic […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]