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March is speedwork month! I need one speed workout (track, intervals, fartlek, or hill repeats) each week. And... not incidentally, I shou...

February's focus is arm strength: Monday/Thursday: 100 tricep dips Tuesday/Friday: 100 walk-down push-ups Wednesday/Saturday: 1 minu...

February's focus is arm strength: Monday/Thursday: 100 tricep dips Tuesday/Friday: 100 walk-down push-ups Wednesday/Saturday: 1 minu...

I liked the principles behind January's cross training challenge , so February's fitness challenge follows a similar concept: 3 exe...

January's challenge is complete! The goal was to do 6 days of exercise each week, including the following: Monday/Thursday: 100 pus...

January's challenge is this full-body strength training I nearly forgot the push ups. Hubby reminded me just as we were about to head t...

January's challenge is this full-body strength training challenge: Monday/Thursday: 100 push-ups Tuesday/Friday: 100 squats Wednesd...

Every year I set a list of goals. Last year my sole fitness goals were: ...join a local running group, and survive the first year of baby-...

Refusing to let a job-changing, city re-locating, house-buying, summer turn me into a couch potato... Last week's plan / actual: Mon...

As I mentioned last week, the quest for the sub-24 5k is being put on hold temporarily ... But that doesn't mean I'm turning into a ...

*sigh* Despite my best efforts at Saturday morning's Double Bridge Run , the quest for the sub-24 5k continues... Starting line of th...

Readers, I present you the twelfth and final entry into Kim's 2012  New 2 U Cross Training Challenge . This project has gotten me skippi...

Back in January I set  a few key goals  for the year. Unfortunately, at the end of the 3rd quarter, my goal score was not looking so good.....

The whole point of Kim's  New 2 U Cross Training Challenge is to break out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself in ways you didn...

Alt title: Crunch month My October entry into the New 2 U Cross Training Challenge is the latest of my entries to date. ( Thank goodness ...

Alt. title: Exercises to do while nursing an injured calf My September entry into the New 2 U Cross Training Challenge is both the lamest...

Over the past four weeks, while sidelined from running, I completed Jillian Michaels' Ripped in 30 . For the record: Something irks m...

Three. Three weeks of being sidelined by plantar fasciitis . By now I thought I'd be crawling the walls because I haven't been ru...

Eight months ago I joined Kim's New 2 U Cross Training Challenge  with the goal of getting out of my comfort zone. During the first fe...

With no runs on the schedule, I've done more reading this weekend than usual (which is saying something given that I devour about a book...