Dream Big.

On a chilly Friday night, in Downtown Charlottesville, while waiting for Obama to give a speech supporting a Democratic Candidate for congress, I made a pact with a new friend to complete an iron man in the next 5 years. And now, it is written! One (LONG) day,  I will swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 [...]

Hot Tub Time!

As of today I am officially training for the Charlottesville 10 miler in April! Yes, that’s a long way away. But, hopefully if I start thinking about it now I’ll be a BOSS by the time it comes around. And I’ve sort of gotten used to the fact that I’m really bad at following a [...]

Triple Check.

MmmmM! I feel sort of like a triathlete again this week because I ran, swam, and went on a bike ride. SHAZAM! That’s 3! The run was another 5K – The best part about it was that cardiovascularly I felt like I could have kept on going (which is kind of an ego boost for [...]

5K’s and Mockingjays!

Friday afternoon, I finally got that long long long (looooong) standing goal of running a 5K over and done! Even though I finished, I definitely didn’t run under optimum conditions. My lunch was too acidic, and I got a sharp pain in my stomach halfway through. I can also say I gave it everything I [...]

Thoughts on Tri-Sport and Why I Work Out These Days

Being a ‘triathlete’ is exhausting, but exhilarating. I use the quotes because I feel like I am such a n00b at all 3 diciplines that calling myself a triathlete is poser-like. But you can’t deny that I run, I swim, I bike (and I play ). When one muscle group is resting, I tackle the other [...]

Double Dip Tuesday

So, apparently a way to sneakily end up working out twice in a day is to work out so early that you are half zombie and your brain violently regurgitates all memory of it…. I started my day at 6:30 AM running around the hood with a couple grad student girls. Honestly, we all run [...]

Summer is FLYING

And a fun yogurt mix on the side: Artificial sweetener free yogurt (which is way too hard to come by), frozen berries, coconut, high fiber cereal, and chocolate chips! I got to test out a fun tip I read online – if you have trouble of letting go of things for sentimental reasons, take a [...]

Run, Baby, Run: C25K Week 5 Cont.

AH!  I feel sore in weird places after yesterday’s bike ride! It’s interesting though haha. I ended up going for a Couch to 5K-esque run this afternoon: The Details: Walk to the Gym (0.8 miles) Walk 2 laps in air conditioning bliss so I can stop sweating before the REAL sweating was to begin Run [...]

A Mile? No Big Deal! C25K Week 5 (the remix)

So, time for some exercise updates for this past week. So, I sneakily went back to following my long abandoned couch to 5K plan. It’s kind of a bummer – in March I was like a week away from finishing it and then this whirlwind of who knows what hit and running didn’t happen for [...]

Lazy Sunday

Today I maintained the weekend tradition of a breakfast in bed of scrambled eggs with feta (perfect combo!) and toast with earth balance spread. And of course, no morning in the world of Karen would be complete sans a cup of JOE! I love how enigmatic I ended up looking haha! While breakfasting I watched [...]