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This hasn’t been a great week for me, due to a host of mishaps. A bout with food poisoning, a fall down a flight of stairs, and some bug bites on my face that caused so much swelling that it was messing with my vision in my eye. As a result of that last one, my team made me leave the office and go to urgent care on my way to the airport today. Not good! This morning started out similarly poorly, with my next door neighbor at the hotel where I was staying blasting the TV at 4:45am. Okay, …

Orangetheory 22.5 Minute Distance Challenge Read More »

This week is Peak Performance Week (PPW) at Orangetheory Fitness. Basically, twice a year, Orangetheory does a specific series of benchmark workouts for a week. The idea is that every six months you can do the same workouts you did six months ago in order to see how much you’ve improved. I’ve only been doing Orangetheory regularly since February, but I was still really excited to put my training to the test and see how well I could perform. Today’s challenge was “endurance” focused. (Or at least, endurance as far as Orangetheory goes, since their style is intended to be …

Orangetheory Peak Performance Week: 24 Minute Run for Distance Read More »

I am flying high after an awesome Orangetheory class yesterday! I had a truly terrible travel day on Wednesday (15 hours for what should have been a 6 hour trip), finally got home at 1am, and woke up at 6:30am yesterday – not nearly enough sleep. I was totally dragging, but decided that I might as well drag myself to a lunchtime Orangetheory class. And I’m so glad I did! Yesterday’s class was really fun. It was endurance day, and for once, the studio in Boulder was 2G (two groups) instead of 3G (three groups). In a 3G class, you rotate between …

Orangetheory Workout: 22.5 Minute Endurance Run Read More »