The Tao of Me

Sunday, January 8 Plan Rest Day Actual Rest Day Monday, January 9 Plan Strength Training 1-hr Bike Trainer Actual AM: 1-hr Bike Trainer PM: Bikram Yoga AM: 1-hr on the Bike Trainer watching Sunday Night’s episode of The Good Wife. This is a great schedule for me on Monday’s because I can just get up [...]

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 [...]

Although today was January 3rd, technically, it was the “real first day of the New Year.” , as in the first work day after the Staycation. Actually, I wasn’t dreading it as much as I thought I would; I was looking forward to getting back to my regular routine. Last night I planned out what [...]

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 [...]

In Vinyasa Yoga, one of the instructors often tells us to “leave our egos at the door and do not go beyond our edge.” By this she means to be realistic about what we are capable of doing on that given day. We should not push beyond our limits, because if we do, it could [...]

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: [...]

A while ago, I stopped posting links to my blog posts on other sites. There wasn’t particular reason for this, I just figure, anyone who is interested in reading will just find it. Most of the time I forget that anyone can read this so it’s always a pleasant surprise to find out that someone [...]

I took my 21st Bikram class last night. The more I develop my practice of it, the more parallels I see between it and running. For example, both teach us to build endurance. Imagine struggling to hold a balancing pose, only to hear the instructor call out, “Half way there.” Although that means there’s only [...]

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 [...]

Monday, October 31st After the 17-mile run last Sunday I took a complete day’s rest on Monday. I woke up so lethargic and was afraid I was coming down with a cold. I ended up leaving work early and came home and took a 2-hour nap. There is something to be said about sleep being [...]