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October 9, 2010

Night Before the Race: Hartford Marathon

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The idea of “drunk gym” sure got me back into weight lifting, but now it’s time to focus on my cardio – I have another marathon coming up tomorrow! I had already wanted to do the Hartford Marathon for a second year simply because of the amazing food at the finish – best post-race food I’ve ever had! (So what if it didn’t quite fit into my first motivation for doing a marathon: the weight loss). However, when I got free entry (thanks to my friend John and the good people at Pure Fit Radio), there was really no reason …

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October 7, 2010

Drunk Gym

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What’s the easiest way to motivate yourself to lift weights? Two words: drunk gym! Last night I went to dinner with my colleagues and enjoyed a glass of Malbec and a mojito with my meal – delicious. However, not only did I miss my alarm and therefore miss my morning workout, but I also broke the dieting rule of “pick two of the deadly three” (bread, drink, dessert) and indulged in all of them, so I desperately needed to get a workout in. After dinner, I made the responsible choice to skip the post-bar festivities and instead head back to …

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October 5, 2010

New digs, new gym

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First night at my new home (the Westin in DC), and I immediately headed down to the gym to check out the equipment. Not too shabby – there’s a multipurpose weight machine, a pretty extensive set of dumbbells, four treadmills, three ellipticals, two stationary bikes, and a stair stepper. The nice part of all this is it’s spread out in a multi-level room that extends around several corners, so you don’t feel boxed in at all, and there is a separate mirrored room in the back with some mats and exercise balls. And this weird donut ring thing. For size …

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October 2, 2010

What happens in Vegas… may be posted on my blog

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Wow. How to even begin to describe my trip. Especially given the oh-so-popular maxim of “whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” But let’s see what I can do to tell some Absolut(ly) Fit adventures while keeping intact the anonymity of all those involved 🙂 Wednesday night, I got in fairly late thanks to my changed flight. I was reading “The Recessionistas” on the flight (well, alternating that with falling asleep, since it was like 1am EST and I had been up since 6am), and it was a fabulous book. While I think it’s supposed to fit in the chick …

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September 29, 2010

Thank you, American Airlines!

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After the excitement of this weekend’s marathon, you’d think I’d lay low for a while. Not so! In addition to being the start of my fall marathon season (updated with my revenge on the Breakers Marathon, which had discounted entry via Groupon – how cool!), this weekend’s marathon also marked my last ditch efforts to get into bikini shape before a trip with my coworkers to Vegas, where one of the planned activities was drinks at a cabana by the pool. Me? Bikini? In front of coworkers? Yeah, that was going to take some work. However, due to my own …

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