The Tao of Me

I fell off the wagon at the end of last year in posting my Weekly Workout summaries, so let’s see if I can be more consistent for all 52 weeks this year. Sunday, January 1 Plan: Rest Day Actual: Who wants to start the New Year out with a Rest Day? But I told myself [...]

I finished my last run of the year (a short, uneventful 3-miler). As I logged the workout, the OCD in me decided to crunch some numbers – rather shocking since I am not a numbers person. Here’s the 2011 numbers: 72 Spin/Bike Trainer workouts 43 Swim workouts 76 Yoga classes (!!!) 41 standalone Core workouts [...]

Tuesday, November 22 AM: 1-hour (6-miles exactly) Easy Run PM: Bikram Yoga Wednesday, November 23 Since this was the last day of work before the long holiday weekend, I worked from home and was able to spread my workouts out over the course of the day (and still get in a full day’s work): AM: [...]

Monday, November 7 AM: Swim. I treated this workout like I’ve been doing easy runs. I didn’t time or count laps. I just put on my earphones and swam – freestyle, using the pull buoy. I used the beat of the music to dictate how fast or slow each lap was. I did this for [...]

A couple of weeks ago during a yoga class I mentioned to RoadBunner that I don’t really get tired legs. This week made me eat those words. Monday, October 17 Though it was a scheduled rest day, I had ambitions of still getting in some time on the bike trainer, as well as a yoga [...]

Summary of last week’s workouts: Monday AM: 30-min on the bike trainer I had hoped to be on it for much longer, but the trainer didn’t feel very stable and after about 10-minutes, I started to smell burning rubber! I asked a couple of friends who told me that wasn’t supposed to happen! I read [...]

I guess I fell off the wagon of my weekly recaps again. My motto always used to be, “I don’t do Sundays…” meaning, I needed a whole day of doing nothing to psych myself up for upcoming the work week, but lately my Sunday’s (and pretty much every other day of the week) have been [...]

Life has been so busy as of late and I haven’t blogged as much as I would like to. I always have so many thoughts floating around in my head but just haven’t had the time to put them into words. It’s also been several weeks since I did my weekly recaps so here’s a [...]

After taking no rest days in Week 32, I ended up taking 2 this week due to some unexpected travel. But the rest was much needed and I ended up only missing 1 workout of the entire week. Monday AM: Spin. I decided to skip my usual Monday morning Core training class. The regular instructor [...]

Despite some recurring aches and pains, I really felt like this past training week was a good one. I slept well (at least 7 hours every night), ate well and overall, just felt well balanced. Sunday Yoga: As I mentioned last week, I have really skimped out on my yoga practice since early July and [...]