The Tao of Me

Its been a really busy week and I haven’t blogged at all, so before I take off to Vegas for the weekend, I thought I’d write a quick post. I’m not a big Halloween person. My friends will vouch for this. When they were all dressing up as french maids and genies, I would always [...]

What started out as an evening stroll to get something to eat turned out to be an unplanned, 4+ hours, almost 7-mile excursion. After work, instead of succumbing to the Friday Night Brain Drain, Be and I decided to take a stroll down the Embarcadero and get something to eat. I wore my Garmin so [...]

Yesterday I did a two-a-day and tried a couple of new workouts — a new 6:30 am core class and the Wednesday night workout with the run club I recently joined. Morning Workout I started the day off with a treadmill run. I hate running on the treadmill, but since I’m supposed to keep things [...]

If I didn’t run a race, can I still write a race report? Because its a lot different being on the spectator’s side…. Yvette and I watched the race in support of our friend (and instructor) Doris, who ran today’s race less than three months after having a baby. She is amazing! We made pretty [...]

Since I’m basically on rest this week, I have had most of my evenings free. So a couple of the colleagues and I decided to have a fun little evening out last night. Elise had been raving about this makeup boutique called “Thi” so we decided to go in and get us some makeovers. There [...]

So I have good news and bad news…. First, the bad news… I went to physical therapy where my therapist confirmed I re-aggravated my hamstring strain. I wasn’t surprised; the pain was pretty familiar with what I felt when I first injured it. Dan (my therapist) started me on a stem treatment with ice (icing [...]

I am seriously considering changing all of my usernames to “iNJured” because I’m constantly sore. Yesterday on the Daily Mile, I wrote: “My plan for today was to run 4.5 miles at an easy pace. I could not even get that far. My left IT band was so stiff, I limped through the first mile [...]

My staycation is over, but it was fun while it lasted. Coming off of last weekend’s race, I was feeling good about the effort and mileage I was building… (Race photo from last week) …but was supposed to go out of town this past weekend and wasn’t quite sure how I was going to keep [...]