The Tao of Me

Workouts: Monday AM: Spin/Core Monday PM: Yoga Tuesday PM: 7-mile run Wednesday AM: Strength Training w/Trainer Wednesday PM: Spin (You can read details of all works here.) Other than my race report of the Oakland Running Festival, I haven’t blogged regularly for almost a week. Life has been busy and I’ve hardly had time to [...]

Workouts: NONE. Yep, none. Unplanned rest day. After a mentally draining workday that included an arduous commute to the South Bay, I drove home in scary rainy conditions with limited visibility and crazy drivers. At one point, we even had flash flood warnings. That combined with really achy DOMS from yesterday’s training session with Dave [...]

AM: Workout: Swam 2800 meters PM: Sunday Dinner: Honey Barbecue Meatloaf I don’t know about you, but in this day and age, I don’t understand why we still have the time change. I went to bed at 9:30ish last night (yes on a Saturday). When I woke up I was quite excited to see that [...]

During my personal training sessions, I have the Biggest Loser playing on TV for a little extra motivation. One thing the contestants always talk about is “their journey.” But what does that mean? To some that means coming full circle and gaining back what they’d lost. To others it’s learning what it means to be [...]

Its only 8:15 pm and I’m already ready for bed. That’s what happens when it starts getting dark at 4 pm! I actually intended on going for a run around that time. After feeling pretty good during yesterday’s run, I just wasn’t feeling it this morning. I still have all kinds of aches and pains [...]

First day back of getting into the groove… I had a hard time going to bed early (i.e., I didn’t), which made it that much harder to wake up this morning. My alarm went off as usual at 4:45 am, but it was another 45 minutes until I dragged myself out of bed. I ate [...]

They say you are what you eat… I can only imagine what that would make me after completely blowing 3 good weeks of healthy eating over the holiday weekend. There’s a reason why I am usually pretty strict about what I eat…because when I let up, I really go all out: * In & Out [...]

One of the things I’m struggling with this week is eating. And trying not to do it so often. When I was training for the marathon, I more or less ate clean, but ate a lot. I was always hungry, eating just about every 2 hours or so. After doing the Resting Metabolic Rate test [...]