Are you one of those people who NEVER wins a race? I am. I’ve been running for decades, but I’m not one of those gifted, alien, super-human types who actually run faster than everyone else and get to be first across the finish line. I’m neither snail nor cheetah. Just your average recreational runner – [...]
Chicken!!! I’ve always hated being called a chicken, yet I lived so many years of my life that way. When I was growing up I had thoughts, ideas, things I wanted to try, things I wanted to wear or do. I wasn’t very brave back then. I’d chicken out, too afraid of what others might [...]
Last year I ran this all uphill half marathon, with only 2 ½ weeks to prepare, I felt great about what I had done. I also knew I didn’t really want to do it again. Hills are tough, tough work for me. I’d done it, felt good about it, and had no intention of signing [...]
Life List Item #211: Do an adventure race that includes map/compass orienteering. I put that on my list years ago and there it sat . . . on my list. I didn’t have a clue about topographical maps or really using a compass. I had also only done mountain biking once in my life. These [...]
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, [...]
Oh my gosh. What a day I had today. I just had to take a minute and share it with all of you, before I collapse on the floor for the remainder of the day. Well, not the whole day. I’ll drag my adorable, somewhat sexy, furry butt off the floor for dinner, of course. [...]
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