Confession: We love our electronics around here. Confession #2: We are fond of Nintendo products. While we do have limits on how much time our children can be interfacing with screens (unless they are reading on the kindle), we do own quite a few options for the time that they are allowed. Both boys have…
Category: fitness
Running couch potato
Recently, the NY Times reported on a study of how much time runners training for a marathon spent sedentary. Not surprisingly, it found that, when not actually working out, the runners were just as sedentary as everyone else. No conclusion was drawn as to whether all the running balanced the sedentary behavior, but still, people,…
Revolve Party!
A while back, RevolveDC offered me a chance to come for a free ride and bring 20 of my local friends. Obviously, I jumped at the chance and sent out word to my local running buddies and some of the moms’ groups I belonged to. It didn’t take long to fill all of my allotted…
Go big or go home (+ a winner)
Beer Geek has a few days of leave he has to use by the end of the year. Because this year he’s covering the office during Christmas week, he’s decided to take a few random days off between now and then. Monday was the first of those days. Being the good wife that I am,…
Fitting it in
This week, Jones is attending a computer camp. He’s loving it. He’s learning all sorts of things I don’t understand. I, on the other hand, am not loving this week. Why? His camp is a 50 minute drive away. So, I have two options: drive 50 minutes 4 times a day or drive 50 minutes…
Staying fit without running
Back in the dark ages days before kids, I was not really a runner. I ran, occasionally. But I was slender and fit. How? I lifted weights three days a week and hit the elliptical, exercise bike and very occasionally the treadmill the other two days. Yes, 99% of my workouts were done during my…
Get out of the heat with RevolveDC (Giveaway!)
It’s hot in the DC metro area right now. Really, really hot. Workouts in my unairconditioned basement have kind of sucked, whether it’s a run on my dying treadmill or a weight workout. Even going to the pool yesterday wasn’t that refreshing because the water was warm. Ugh! I like sweating because I got a…
A teaser: The FitBase
Last week, I met up with a friend for coffee. This may have been the first time I’ve actually sat down and talked to this friend, as opposed to being covered in sweat and cursing his name. See, C.J. is a personal trainer and running coach. We’ve hung out at races together (note that we…
(Wo)Man of Steel™
Disclosure: The following post is sponsored by FitFluential LLC on behalf of Soldier of Steel ™ So far, June is the month of not running. (That’s not completely true as I did run a half marathon. A long half marathon.) My various body parts have asked for a break from the pounding that is running. …
I don’t wanna
I’m pretty sure every mom has heard that phrase at least once in their lives, usually from their 2 year old who’s refusing something like putting on shoes or eating their breakfast. Some kids go through a phase where that’s their response to pretty much everything, even good things. Today, my inner two year old…
#WhatsBeautiful now?
As part of my participation in the Under Armour What’s Beautiful campaign, I made a goal of stepping outside my comfort zone. While I haven’t exactly managed to do one thing that scares me every day, I did successfully step WAY outside my zone to race a trail half marathon. It was pretty awesome putting…
Five for Friday
1. I’ve been doing Tina Reale’s Best Body Bootcamp for the last 8 weeks. I’ll write a review this weekend, but {spoiler alert} I’ll be signing up for the next round. Today, the workout involved upper body weights with burpees in between. In fact, it called for a total of 125 burpees! Umm, I’ve never…