January 2012
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I just learned that the makers of Clif bars also... →
Taste-testing party, anyone?
I’m at the airport as I write this (don’t cry for me, Argentina, it’ll be worth getting up this early). In the past year they added the Auntie Anne’s (giant buttery soft pretzel chain often found in malls, for those unfamiliar) to this terminal. It doesn’t look open but there’s a big ad on one side with the words:
Welcome To Forces Beyond Your Control
I...
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Design Features of MyFitnessFrenemy
It’s a wonder that this cousin app to MyFitnessPal didn’t catch on with tools like these:
Food diary suggests new, complicated diet plan every week that “you could seriously lose 10 pounds on.”
Exercise tab hosts scroll of “motivational” messages like “You can push harder than that!” and “Yeah, ‘rigorous’ for my...
THE WRITER OF THIS BLOG PRESENTS TO YOU A...
runlikeella:
(Namely, I will be the hater, breaking up six miles into as many intervals as I need to just do the damn thing. I’m going to attempt to run Central Park, because it’s always so pretty the day after it snows, but if I have to, I will be at the gym for as long as I need to be, keeping myself occupied because boo, dreadmills. Also, I just wanted the excuse to use this .gif, can you...
I just bought my ticket to New Orleans for RnR...
It’s good to buy plane tickets when you feel extra lonely in your normal life, because then you’re like, “Fuck it! Let’s get out of here!”
CNet: Nike unveils FuelBand activity-tracking... →
This bracelet looks like Nike’s answer to the BodyBugg or FitBit — it tracks steps and calories burned, but also “NikeFuel” units which apparently are a way to standardize activity across all different sports and pursuits. There’s an accompanying iPhone app and an Android app on the way (insert weeping for us, the last 5 BlackBerry users in America).
I love a good...
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"Solutions"
A few weeks ago I heard a woman at work complaining about how much weight she’d gained over the holidays. To make herself feel better, she said in a bright mocking voice, “It’s okay!! I’ll just be proud of being a big girl! I’ll own these size 10s!” as if that was the worst thing that could ever befall a person.
Today I heard her bragging that she only eats 1...
“I would say to myself, ‘I’m good enough.’ That became my...”
– Michael Fassbender (from a slightly NSFW interview in The Hollywood Reporter)
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Back me up here...
On Monday I zinged my back while doing a plank. I am not good at planks because my core is made of vanilla pudding, but I’m working on that; unfortunately, in trying to make sure my back was straight I did something to it even though I stopped right away. I felt it a little bit when I got up Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and running on Thursday night. On Friday night I went to a yoga class,...
Short Mom: TEDxManhattan: "Change the Way We Eat" →
shortmom:
From the web site:
TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” will take place January 21st, 2012, in New York City. The one-day event will highlight several aspects of the sustainable food movement and the work being done to shift our food system from industrially-based agriculture to one in which healthy, nutritious food is accessible to all.
Viewing parties are being held...
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27 going on 85
Last night I took water aerobics and I loved it. Surely I will also come to love collectible stuffed animals, calling pants “slacks” and eating dinner at 4pm. Word to your grandma.
The class I took was called “Splash Dance” (yay, puns!) and consisted of about 55 minutes of dance moves a la Zumba or other cardio-based dance workouts and 15 minutes of stretching and abs....
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New York City: Free 92Y (UES) fitness center open... →
I don’t even know why I belong to a gym this month when I can just go to everyone else’s gyms! I might try to take a pool class since I never use the pools in my gym system. Here fishy fishy fishy…
If you go here I would love to hear what you think of it.
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Extremely Madeover and a PPR (Personal...
On Friday I went to a Google Places event with Chris Powell, the trainer on “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition.” I have watched a few episodes of “EM: WLE” after I came home over the summer to find my roommate TRANSFIXED on the couch watching the episode about the PE teacher. “I want to get a trainer like that,” she said, “but I’d have to be...
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Chrysti Does Life.: The Internet does Ragnar... →
chrystidoeslife:
Here is the link for info on the Ragnar Relay 200 miles Madison to Chicago run: http://www.ragnarrelay.com/race/chicago
Some people have expressed an interest, especially since the Bourbon Chase is a no go. It’s June 8th and 9th, which is normally mild and perfect running weather around these…
Dear Internet, wanna be running buddies? I will send you 8,000 emails...
How is it...
…that people on Twitter can be so vocal that we need to “solve the obesity crisis” in America and then turn around and bitch about new people at their gym for being “the worst” or not “serious” or that they should “go back to being lazy already”? How ELSE is it going to happen? The Magical Thinness Fairy descending upon the US?
I need to quit...
I resolve...
I was so busy on New Year’s Day I forgot to write about my fitness resolutions.
I’m tempted to just do as Reluctant Runner did and write that my resolution is to finish the NYC Marathon. That is the One True Goal, still! But obviously it’s just not as simple as showing up at the starting line.
After considering my weaknesses and other goals, here’s what I think I should...
“To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No...”
– William James
2012 is awesome so far
For the following reasons:
1. I rang in the New Year at the Midnight Run in Central Park. It seemed way more crowded than last year but the fireworks were terrific and the crowd support was really strong for something taking place at 12AM. Not to mention the lovely company of Tumblrs feistyred and one-twenty-five.
2. While I woke up with a killer headache, it was not a hangover! (I think...
December 2011
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Top 5 runs of 2011
I was inspired by Runthistown’s top 5 runs of 2011 to make a list of my own. Please give him credit if you want to make one too!
5. Emerald Nuts Midnight Run, New York, NY. January 1, 2011: The sponsor is extremely appropriate for this event, because it is nuts. Sometimes when I go to running-related events I get the sense that I’m entering this shadow world, with the shock and wonder...
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One Twenty Five: NYC Meetup. Oh how presumputious... →
one-twenty-five:
I always feel all sorts of awkward doing this, but…
Some good souls out there have asked (so kind, so very, very kind) to meet up in dee city, and as I would not-so-secretly lurrrve to meet/touch/gaze atanyone who reads my rambles, I was wondering if anyone would like to join me for a calorie enhanced beer (or three) or water, at The Ginger Man (11 E. 36th St between 5th...
Two half-marathons with a 1-week break in the...
Totally doable and not all that crazy, right? Asking for a friend.
Share the health
Hey, let’s all agree to be nice to “January Joiners” or “Resolutionaries” or whatever we’re calling new people at our gyms or other fitness activities in 2012. I was one, and while I realize the January 1st date is largely symbolic and does not guarantee any kind of success, it was a symbol that worked for me. At the time I was so self-conscious that if anyone...
NY Times: Lives Overlap on the Track in Brooklyn's... →
Loved this slice of life.
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True! Holiday! Confessions!
Tonight is our department holiday party and I am wearing Spanx at my desk. To quote a British pop song, I said never again, but here we are.
I was really excited about the party till I remembered I was an introvert. Oops! In my mind I somehow have a different personality going into these things.
I really don’t care what we have for Christmas dinner, but now my family’s fighting so...
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Exercise Pro Tip
Don’t bring reading material to the elliptical featuring people who open a Mexican restaurant and two characters who arrange a meeting at Chipotle. I was about ready to put guacamole on my gym towel and eat it.
tastybalance asked: Sorry if you already mentioned it I might have missed it but ... how long a streak is supposed to last for ? btw congrats on your 21 consecutive days ;)
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Look! A streaker!
Yesterday was my 21st consecutive day of running in the Runner’s World Holiday Runstreak — and frankly my 21st consecutive day of running ever. I sort of can’t believe this is happening.
I’ve had a lot of random thoughts about this that I haven’t had time to form into anything. But in case you’re thinking of ever doing a streak, here are some things for you to...
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