I exercise quite a bit and have been since The Sisterhood challenged me to my first 5K in 2009. The only reason I took that challenge back then is because of the peer pressure- I thought, if all these non-runners can take up running for the next 8 weeks, then so can I. If I [...]
Is it just me or does it seem like running is the new craze? Every where I look, people are becoming runners. People who never thought they’d ever dream of running are now signing up for 1/2 marathons, running 12 races in 12 months, and some are even qualifying for Boston!! There are grandma’s running in [...]
You probably know this about me but I am a somewhat neurotic safety freak when it comes to going out and running on my own. I carry personal defense systems that shall not be named along with my tiny fists of fury. So when iSafe reached out to us to do a review, I was all [...]
It’s been a while since I had the write-up for True Confessions. For those of you who are new around here, Tuesday is the day where we put IT all out on the table, where we share the previous week’s transgressions, struggles, and good stuff too. You write up a post, leave the link in [...]
Anyone else loading up the family and traveling elsewhere for the holidays? Don’t be jealous, but we’re loading up the minivan with our family of five plus grandma and driving 17+ hours to visit my sister and her family. It should be an awesome time for us to connect with the 8, 5, and 3 [...]
I was bound and determined that I was going to run the entire Run the Hood 5k next weekend. It is something that I have never done before. I have walked more 5k’s than I can count. I have walk/ran some of those, but I have never ran an entire 5k. I figured I wasn’t [...]
Good afternoon! How are you this fine Monday? It’s time for our weekly C25K check-in! I should have just started Week 8, but I found myself getting a little behind this past week. I have started back at the gym several times a week. MUSCLE WORK + KICKBOXING = SORE MELISSA = NO RUNNING Yeah. [...]
Good morning, friends! How are you? I know at this point, many of us are at different stages of the couch-to-5K program and that’s okay! Some of us have repeated weeks, or started completely over. What matters is that we aren’t GIVING UP! I just finished Week 6 yesterday. As in a 25-minute jog. Holy [...]
Yes you read that title right. I was going through my emails full of races and I came across this one and thought this was a topic worthy of attention. Naked racing! Here in Florida, there are a few nude races. They take place at a couple of the nude resorts, I presume because it’s [...]
Good morning, couch-to-5k friends! How is it going? We now have a dozen of these workouts under our belt! Can you believe it? How did Week 4 treat you? What did you think about those 5-minute intervals? Did you survive? It has definitely been tougher for me, but I am sticking with it! My back [...]
Helllllloooooo there, couch-to-5k’ers! You didn’t think I forgot about you, did you? Never! Okay, well, maybe a little. But only because I have been totally busy finding the best deals ever on furniture, and then I got a little sidetrack and moved furniture and started a million projects on my main floor. PHEW. I’m tired. [...]
Name: Shera W Blog: http://livejournal.com/lashera (my twitter is more active these days) Twitter: @ldanay Age: 25 Hometown: Yonkers, New York Tell us about your family: I’m surrounded by my awesome mother and adopted twelve year old brother. I don’t have any children, but I do have a five year olf Shih Tzu named Mister. He [...]
Good morning, my couch-to-5k friends! How are you? I am typing this from my iPad as I sit in the middle-of-nowhere a.k.a. the rig. Where Internet is sucky or nonexistent. Sorry for any errors you see! I can’t figure out how to get out of the HTML editor. Most of us just finished up week [...]
I came across my first Bondi Band last summer at the expo for the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll 1/2 marathon I was participating in, and my running ‘do was forever-changed. There were literally hundreds of stretchy bands to choose from with so many different slogans and colors. I appropriately chose a headband adorned with [...]
Good morning, Couch-to-5K’ers! How’s it going? Did you survive Week 1? Or maybe you are just finding us and getting ready to lace up your shoes for the first time? Week 1 went excellent for me. I was surprised, really. Yesterday, I set out on my Week 2, Day 1 workout. The runs increase to [...]
