Dear Jillian, You know I love you, and you know I think you are one hell of a trainer, but come on, girl. What’s with the “photo” on the cover of Shape Magazine? It makes me want to puke!! It’s so disgustingly airbrushed, touched up, and PhotoShopped! And this from a woman who I hear [...]
Have you seen that Geico commercial with the piggy going weeee all the way home? Well that’s pretty much how my littlest piggy is feeling nowadays. The first 3 weeks after breaking my pinky toe were pretty rough. First I couldn’t walk well unless barefoot, the first mile of every run really hurt, and if [...]
It’s been 3 weeks since our hero, Rachel (AKA the Fitness Fanatic, the Nut Job, the Broken-Toed Runner), broke her baby toe while hiking in her Vibram Five Fingers. As you may recall she broke the big toe on the same foot back in June of 2009 . What is it with the toes on [...]
No, I’m not dead! I know, I know, I haven’t written since the New Year began. Bad, Rachel. I don’t have much time right now either, but I figured I’d go ahead and fill (all 5 of) you in on the highlights of my 2011 thus far. Did Kathy Freston’s Quantum Wellness 21 Day Cleanse [...]
Here we are, in the final stretch of 2010. In just a few short hours another journey around the sun will be in the history books. I don’t give a shit about New Year’s Resolutions and I don’t make them, but I do like to take time at the end of each year to reflect, [...]
Six days of rain! Inconceivable! At least it is for us weather-spoiled babies here in Santa Barbara county. That many wet days really tries to throw a wrench into my workouts, but lucky for me I have a healthy dose of stubbornness built into this 5 foot frame. Every other day I went for runs [...]
What sort of conversations do you have at your bank when you go in just to make a simple deposit? I went in the other day, dressed in my workout clothes and wearing my Vibram Five Fingers, and somehow, this (along with my amazing physique – ha!), made my service representative think I was someone [...]
Here was my To Do List for the morning of Saturday, December 4: 1.Stairway to Heaven. 2.Buddha’s Burden. 3.Terrible Tires. 4.Wrecking Ball. 5. Bonus Tires. 6. Fools Spools. 7. Rope a Dope. 8. Skid Marks. 9. Wall of Fame. 10. Cargo Congo Climb. 11. Mud Madness. 12. Mystery nightmare obstacle. 13. Hell’s Hills. 14. Mud [...]
At the risk of being misunderstood or sounding arrogant, I must say I have figured it all out! After my many years on planet Earth, I have discovered the truth about what it takes to be truly healthy, happy, and fit. I know what you are thinking . . . something like “Yeah, right, Rachel! [...]
Inconceivable!!! It’s been one month since I last blogged. I have a very good reason for my absence. Shauna and I moved. We left Santa Barbara and became Carpinterians. We are now the proud owners of a smaller home on 4 acres of raw, undeveloped land! Just what we wanted. The process of moving included [...]
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