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Ah, the best laid plans. We all have ’em, especially around this time of year. Like many of you, I set some fitness goals for 2018; none of them too lofty. I even broke them down for the first three months of the year, thinking shorter-term goals would be much easier to achieve. Yeah…no. Halfway through these first three months, I’m not exactly where I want to be. With some careful contemplation, I think I know why. So to help you, my dear reader, avoid sabotaging your own fitness goals, I’d advise you avoid the following like the plague: Having a Social Life Seriously, folks,Read More →

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Am I getting old (shut up), or is time flying by at warp speed? It’s already the last Friday of the month, and that means it’s time once again to enter the runfessional! I’m linking up with Marcia’s Healthy Slice for another Runfessions session! I have to runfess, I’m still a little irked with Lululemon for the whole bait-and-switch Strava challenge. True, they didn’t specifically promise anything, but they did set a little bit of a precedent last year, and then dropped a few teasers that they had a surprise in store (the key word, as it turns out, was IN store) for those of us who would complete the challengeRead More →

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Oh, what a week it has been! Most everyone in the country has been affected, but we in the Midwest, and especially you in the Northeast, got quite the hard weather hit this past week. Here in the Chicago area, we woke up on New Year’s Day to a temperature of 6 degrees BELOW ZERO. And that doesn’t include our infamous wind chill! All I can say is Brrrr! If you read my most recent post, you know I’ve fallen off the running train since my Ragnar race in November. New Year’s Day was not the day to get back on it.   The followingRead More →