October 2010

October 31, 2010

Night Before the Race: Marine Corps Marathon

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Despite the success of last year’s strategy to go out the night before the marathon in order to celebrate Halloween, this year I decided to do things differently. With the marathon being on Sunday, I would need to be in DC on Saturday, and I didn’t really have many friends in DC with whom I wanted to go out. Instead, I tried to rally the troops to go out on Friday night in NYC – and what a night I had. My friend Kristen invited me to join her and her coworkers for a karaoke happy hour, which turned out …

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October 29, 2010

Helping the needy?

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I wish my business hotels offered this program: At the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, you’ll earn a free voucher for a meal worth about $44 if you get some exercise and burn off part of your carbon footprint by producing 10 watts of energy on a bicycle through the “Cycle for Your Supper” program. With my two-a-day workout schedule, I could feed a family of 5!

October 27, 2010

Dating for a cause

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Since I’m super behind on fundraising for the New York City Marathon, I knew that it wasn’t going to work to simply ask friends and go the normal route. What I needed was some sort of big idea – one that could bring in a lot of money in a short time. My current week’s reading material for the plane is Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Given that context, my first instinct was to think about what motivates people to donate. If I send a mass mail to my friends, I’d get a few people …

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October 23, 2010

DIY Fitness Cruise

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With our impending acquisition, there was some buzz for a while about whether or not we’d get to roll our vacation days over to next year. I have a whole bunch of vacation left, so that was a big deal for me! However, with my current project, I can’t just take off for two weeks – and anyway, I’ve always preferred multiple shorter vacations to one long one. I started tentatively planning a few long weekends, but then got word that we would in fact be able to roll our vacation days over to 2011. Hooray! However, having already started …

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October 20, 2010

Walking workout

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This morning, I decided to try out something a little bit different for my routine. In an attempt to get more sleep, I skipped my evening workout (okay, some of that was laziness too). However, I ended up getting 7 hours of sleep, waking up before my alarm went off, and feeling a lot more energized than usual when I woke up. Hitting the gym, I started with 45 minutes on the elliptical, using a heart rate program that automatically adjusts the intensity based on your age, weight, and heart rate (my target was 140). It definitely gave me a …

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