I made a hesitant return to the world of fitness with a great and much-needed Pilates session. I was completely exhausted and very winded when I was finished, but I was also stretched out and relaxed.
With any luck, I’ll be able to ease back into my workout calendar starting on Monday. I don’t have any [...]
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Another 40: The Final Day
Another 40: Days 33-35
I typically have a ridiculously strong immune system. When my husband spent our vacation suffering from a cold, it never occurred to me that I’d have any problems. So last Wednesday, on the eve of our return, I pushed my sniffles and scratchy throat aside and thoroughly ignored them. And there they sat for four [...]
Another 40: Days 22-32
Yes, I’ve been terrible about following through on the documentation of this 40-day challenge. Since we last spoke, I went on vacation. For anyone who wonders if they should skip the hoopla of the holidays and head for the tropics, my answer is an unequivocal yes.
In the course of a week, I read a 500-page [...]
Another 40: Day 21
For the most part, the clients have entered the quiet zone known as Holiday Shutdown. It’s a blissful and glorious time, the time where I get to spend multiple days getting organized, closing out the current year and looking ahead to new things.
Even though things were quiet today, I found that I was still stuck [...]
Another 40: Days 12-14
I’m scrambling to play catch-up. Work is all-out insane this week as all clients try to close everything out before the end of the year. The end of the year is Friday. Oh, sure, that’s only the 18th, but with people taking vacation during Christmas week and the week after, that only leaves a small [...]
Another 40: Days 10 and 11
Is it Friday already? Where did the week go?
I went running yesterday morning. It was 38 degrees and cloudy, but I wanted to get out before the forecast hit: rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain. Unfortunately, the rain came earlier than I expected. I got soaked and raced for home, chilled to the bone [...]
Another 40: Days 8 and 9
Perhaps I was a bit hasty in embarking on this 40-day challenge. Worse than my work schedule being uncooperative, the weather has been downright nasty. For the past several days, we’ve had overnight lows in the 20s. Considering the problems that I had in October with running on wet leaves, there’s no way that I’m [...]
Another 40: Days 5 and 6
The weekend comes in one consolidated package.
Highlights: A Saturday morning pilates session that left me feeling beautifully stretched out on Saturday and ab-sore on Sunday. Stumbled across four decent $1 finds on the clearance rack at the used book store around the corner. A good phone conversation with my 91-year-old Nana. Made homemade meatballs with [...]
Another 40: Day 4
Exercise? Oh, that’s the thing I do on mornings where I don’t have back t0 back to back to back calls from 8:30-11:30. The schedule just wasn’t going to cooperate today, so I had to find other ways to treat myself right.
Instead, I did wonders for my mental wellbeing by having lunch with a good [...]
Another 40: Day 3
Today was the day of Wii Fit yoga. I stretched, contorted and balanced for 30 minutes this morning after Wednesday’s revelation that I don’t do so well with running in sub-40 temperatures. Frankly, I don’t do well with much of anything when it’s below 40, so this shouldn’t have come as a surprise. I probably [...]
