General Fitness Tips

My RRCA Running Coach Training

Happy Workout Wednesday! Before I get into recapping my training experience, I wanted to call attention to the fact that yesterday was American Diabetes Alert Day, when people are encouraged to weigh their risk of determining Type 2 Diabetes.  You can take the...

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7 Interesting Things I Read This Week #8

Thank you so much for all the positive feedback on Friday's post on food intolerance testing.  I'm so glad that sharing my experience was helpful, and I hope to be able to help many of you work on your intolerances as well!  If you emailed me about your own testing...

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7 Interesting Things I Read This Week #7

Happy Sunday! Hope you had safe and fun St. Patrick's Day celebrations, if you chose to celebrate yesterday. I ran a local 5K (just for fun, not for speed) with some former colleagues ... it was a fun start to the morning and there were TONS of people dressed in...

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7 Exercise Tips for Workout Wednesday

I got in a groove with the "7 Interesting Things I Read This Week" Sunday series (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) ... and then Brazil happened (the recap is here!) ... and I already know I won't do another one this upcoming Sunday.  Well, sometimes you just have to go with the...

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7 Things I Experienced in Brazil

I'll start by saying that, for those of you who are only here for the nutrition and fitness tips, this is a post you can likely skip.  It's not that I was unhealthy (I talk a bit about it in #4), it's just that this is more of a personal recap of the trip, for my own...

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Healthy Restaurant Tips + Fitting in Exercise

I know, I know ... Thursday posts are supposed to be reserved for product reviews.  I do have a good one on deck, but I couldn't let another day pass without making sure you checked out two guest posts that I recently did. The first contains 4 tips for eating...

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The Benefits of Foam Rolling

Hello!  We're back from Brazil, and had an amazing time!  I'll be posting a recap of my trip this weekend, so stay tuned!  Did you get to check out my two Motivation Monday posts, Jillienne's guest post on marathon training with a group, and Caroline's guest post on...

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Don’t Fall!

It's Motivation Monday!  If all goes according to plan, I should be landing from Brazil a few hours after this is posted.  If you have actually received 4 posts from me in the time I've been gone, I probably deserve some kind of medal.  This technology-fearing blog...

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7 Interesting Things I Read This Week #5

Happy Sunday!  Kevin and I are heading off to Brazil tonight for a good friend's wedding next weekend.  Aside from the 11 hour red-eye both ways, I'm excited beyond belief and feel so lucky to get to experience Brazil.  We'll be gone until next Monday, but I have a...

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7 Interesting Things I Read This Week

The link party continues!  The decision (or lack thereof) has been made ... I'll keep the flexibility of 7 Tips Sundays: sometimes I'll do lists of interesting (I hope!) articles with my commentary, and other times I'll do other tips, weekend/ race recaps, or in-depth...

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