health and fitness

September 6, 2010

10 Mile Fail

health and fitness, running / 11 Comments

With the Hartford Marathon coming up in six weeks (yikes!), I decided last week that it was time to get training. In my wonderfully self-designed training plan, I decided I’d stick to normal workouts during the week and then do a long run every weekend, starting with 10 miles and tacking another 5 miles on to my long run each week. This would mean that I’d finish up with a 25 mile run two weeks before my marathon – perfect timing. This weekend, though, I got pretty darn lazy. Saturday midday I took that hooping class, and woke up too …

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September 4, 2010

Trying some new things

cooking, health and fitness / 5 Comments

To mark the start of the holiday weekend,I met up with some girlfriends at The Redhead for dinner, and then moved on to The Belgian Room for craft beer. Yum! Knowing that we were going to be getting free frites at The Belgian Room, I tried to go light on my entree at The Redhead, opting for the appetizer-size portion of shrimp and grits while all my girlfriends had the fried chicken platter (their specialty, and supposedly the best fried chicken in NYC). After tasting a bit of the chicken, I was a little sad I hadn’t gotten that as …

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September 3, 2010

Men are from Mars, women don’t waste time during workouts

goal setting, health and fitness / 8 Comments

This morning, I was meeting a friend for breakfast at 7am, which meant I had to get up at 5:30am to get a decent strength training workout in. My gym is pretty empty at that hour on the Friday of a holiday weekend, so I had the opportunity to really observe the two or three people that were there. Now, beyond the obvious observation that more women do cardio and more men do weights (I am a total sexist about this and have to suppress a giggle whenever I see guys under the age of 60 on the elliptical… man …

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August 30, 2010

Diet inspiration from a lazy Sunday morning

cooking, diet, goal setting, health and fitness / 5 Comments

Despite my push to increase my workouts last week (successful, too – I logged 450 minutes of gym time in the last 7 days!), I have been gaining weight. I blame my all-inclusive trip to Punta Cana, my singledom that is encouraging me to go to bars and drink in order to meet guys in NYC, and my training last week that had catered food about which I had little to no choice in eating. Okay, so maybe those tequila shots with my team were another story… Speaking of which, last night I was out with my friend Kristen until …

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August 24, 2010

Running through it

career, health and fitness / 4 Comments

I’ve run through breakups. I’ve run through rainstorms. I’ve run through depression. And today, I ran through a buy out of my company. Last night, I was out with my new team doing the normal consulting getting-to-know-you-routine. Unbeknownst to us, while we were throwing back coffee-flavored tequila shots at the bar (try it, it’s AWESOME!), all the partners in our firm were meeting in a conference room to vote on an offer to buy the firm. This morning I got up at 5am (!) to get in a good long workout and burn off the alcohol calories from the night …

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