Torture Report: Starting and Stopping

(G): Hallelujah!!! Today is my 62nd day straight of burpees and after the 31 I do today I am officially calling the 2-month long challenge complete. It has been a slog, a battle, a face-to-face meeting of my weaknesses every day. And I am better for it. But I am more than ready to give…

Life Lesson: Don’t Treadmill & Cry

Spoiler Alert: If you watch This Is Us and you HAVEN’T watched this week’s episode, do not read any further. Stop what you are doing and go watch. We’ll still be here when you’re done. Go on, get to it. It has long been established that we are Gilmore Girls in training. We love Lorelai and…

Torture Report: Thorns in the Side

(G): Another week down and it did not disappoint! My running interval training continues to keep me on my toes and wearing me out at every turn. This is my last week focusing on VO2max training and the only thing happier than me is my lungs. Oh it’s been an adventure. I am sure once…

Real Connection

We are all connected. We are all part of each other. “We are all just walking each other home,” as Ram Dass said. But we forget this. We put a fair amount of importance on the big picture and it’s easy to use this to start generalizing when we zoom too far out. We begin…

Thankful Thursday: Awake

It’s getting to be that time. You know what happens after a few weeks into the new year and you start to fall into old habits, old mindsets. It’s unreal how fast we lose our fresh lens and we reflexively reach for the old, regular, cloudy glasses we just a few short weeks ago claimed…