Recently, I’ve been biking a lot. It’s been almost a full year since I first started taking Flywheel Texas, but ever since my injury prevented me from lifting, it’s now become the only one of my usual classes in Dallas that I can still take. Meanwhile, Flywheel is currently running a three week “Grab your passport and FLY” challenge, in which participants get a stamp on their passport for each Texas region instructor they try. The combination of these two {Read More}
Archives for July 2013
Links I Love: July 28, 2013
July 28, 2013 by 2 Comments
Want to stay in bed longer? Here’s what I’ve been loving, laughing, and getting intrigued by all week long. Now cozy up with your laptop/iPad and enjoy :) CAREER Just Say No: 7 Canned Responses You Can Use. (The Daily Muse) Desk jobs can be killers, literally. Don’t I know it! (The Washington Post) Science of Success: Can Your Genes Turn You Into a Winner? (Learnvest) Work Place Dynamics Not Much Different Than High School. Yikes. (Hotel News Resource) This {Read More}
How I Developed My To-Do List to GSD
July 26, 2013 by 7 Comments
As we approach the end of my month of GSD, I wanted to do a post about exactly how I GSD, and what my to-do list system is. I don’t use any super fancy tool (mine is actually a multisheet Excel workbook!) but I’ve refined it over the last few years so it really works for me. I’ve always kept my to-do list on the computer rather than writing it down. Even when I would hand write my to-do list {Read More}
Apps I Love: Pocketcasts by Shifty Jelly
July 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
As I’ve mentioned in a few previous posts, I’ve become a podcast power user in the last six months or so. But since I have an Android phone instead of iPhone, I can’t just use iTunes to get all the latest content. After experimenting with a lot of different apps for my phone, I found one that I absolutely love – Pocketcasts, by Shifty Jelly (available for both IOS and Android, though this rave applies to the Android version). When {Read More}
How To Reach Your Exercise Goals While Injured
July 24, 2013 by 3 Comments
Now that I’ve gotten the greenlight to work out, I’m so excited to get back to Flywheel and some of my other favorite classes. However, it’s also really important to make sure that I don’t go too hard. I’m definitely still hurt (in fact, after a trial run with the mechanical traction machine yesterday, I feel worse than before), and the last thing I want is to exacerbate my problems. Many of my friends/readers seem to think that I am uber-competitive {Read More}
Reducing Stress: Doctor’s Orders
July 22, 2013 by 8 Comments
This post written on steroids. Beware disjointed thoughts and watch out for non sequiturs. Perhaps I should have gone with a bullet list approach instead of trying to force paragraphs that don’t really connect everything going through my mind right now? This weekend I stuck around Dallas instead of flying home. Although I was “stuck” in Dallas, I actually had a super fun weekend with Blake and her husband JP – checking out a new-to-me pizza place with some other {Read More}
Links I Love: July 21, 2013
July 21, 2013 by 6 Comments
Want to stay in bed longer? Here’s what I’ve been loving, laughing, and getting intrigued by all week long. Now cozy up with your laptop/iPad and enjoy :) CAREER I found this surprising, maybe just because I’m not much of a napper? In Quest for Even More Productivity, Somehow Workers Want Naps Over Telecommuting. (MainStreet) Cool profiles of role models here: 5 Awesome Entrepreneurs Who Bootstrapped Their Startups. (Under 30 CEO) Not totally surprised to find that women are paid more {Read More}
Workouts I’m Loving: Brit’s Buns of Steel and Physique 57
July 20, 2013 by 2 Comments
It’s been almost a week since I ran the Boilermaker – though I finally posted my race report yesterday. Can you believe it took me 82 minutes to run but 93 minutes to write? Now you see why I am so slow on race reports, though I am absolutely determined to get San Diego’s written before the end of July. (Hey, isn’t that what July is all about – catching up on the things I’ve been neglecting??) Anyway, it’s been so {Read More}
Race Report: Boilermaker 15K
July 19, 2013 by 12 Comments
I woke up on Sunday morning absolutely exhausted from not enough sleep – though this week, “not enough sleep” has meant anything under 11 hours. These drugs have been knocking me out cold every single night! But while I was sleepy, my neck/back weren’t hurting at all – so I figured I was probably okay to run. My mom was driving, since I can’t drive while on Percocet, which meant that I could spend the whole way sleeping if I {Read More}
Night Before the Race: Boilermaker 15K
July 17, 2013 by 4 Comments
I headed upstate to Albany on Friday afternoon, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the two hour bus ride was actually not terrible for my neck – as long as I stayed off the computer, that is. I spent most of the ride calling Dallas doctors and trying to find one who could fit me in early the next week, to no avail. (As I write this on Wednesday, I’m now so used to how impossible it is to {Read More}
