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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 […]
A Special Visitor As I mentioned last week, Pablo and his humans (our son and daughter-in-law) were visiting for the week. We enjoyed lots of walks, cuddles, and spoiling him with treats. Sadly, they are leaving this morning and our house will be quieter without his little toenails tapping on the floor as he runs […]
Overview of the Week Before getting into each day’s workouts, here’s an overview of my workouts from this past week. Scroll beyond the infographic for daily details… Sunday Cycling: 52 miles • Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin • Average speed: 15.2 MPH • Surface: N/A • Elevation gain: 0 feet • Start time: […]
New Goals for 2025 With over half the year behind me, I decided to update my 2025 cycling mileage goal. At almost 700 miles ahead of pace, I’ve change my goal mileage from 5,000 to 6,000. With the new goal in place I’m 130 miles ahead of pace and will need to average around 115 […]
Making Our Way Back East Our country is huge and as we made our way back east to Virginia from Montana, we spent far more time sitting in our SUV than moving our bodies. Other than my guaranteed twice daily back exercises and stretching, the only thing consistent with my usual weekly workout routine was […]
Animal Encounters Along the Trails A week ago I would have told you’d I’d rather go on a fast paced walk rather than a hike, but my opinion changed this week. In Big Sky Country you can see for miles… if you take a moment to look up from the trail. That’s my problem, when […]
Our Old Stomping Ground Our week was filled with events around Logan, our old stomping ground. Two specific events were the highlight of the week: hiking around Tony Grove and cycling out of Blacksmith Fork Canyon. Tony Grove was a favorite place for hiking when we lived in Logan from 1981 to 1983; and one […]
Altitude Acclimation Suddenly, this girl who lives at 250 feet is working out at 5,000+ feet. Luckily, I haven’t had any problems adjusting to the altitude… so far. We spent most of the week going on short hikes as we drove from park to park which seemed to work in our favor as we gradually […]
