Two years ago today I scrounged together the best outfit I could with the limited running clothes I had, I opened an app called Get Running and went out for my first run. Today I’ve run 2 marathons, 6 half marathons and a various other races and I have an entire separate dresser full of … Continue reading »
I need to start off this post with a quick apology. I’ve been nominated by several fellow bloggers for some blogging recognition awards and have been very slow in responding and getting my post up, but here it is! Apologies, and big thank you to all of the lovely ladies who nominated me for these: … Continue reading »
RECAP (5/13-5/19) Monday - rest day / taught 1 hour yoga class Tuesday – 90 minute yoga class Wednesday – 3 mile run and 45 minutes elliptical Thursday – finals and then dinner in the city with friends! First Korean Bar-B-Que experience. I’m still not quite sure what I think of it. I mean it wasn’t … Continue reading »
Happy Mother’s Day to my Mom and all the other mom’s out there! As I’m writing this I just realized you’ve all seen pictures of my mom and sister since they’ve run with me a few times, my dad is usually at the races as our team photographer (and if you read the blog comments at … Continue reading »
Proprioception the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement Last week I shared a quick lesson from my psychology class about flow, today’s post comes to you from biology class! In biology we’ve been discussing the nervous system and the senses and recently we talked about proprioception. … Continue reading »
First of all, congratulations to the winner of the Cheribundi Giveaway: Rachel of Running 50 States! RECAP (4/29-5/5) Monday - 5 mile run and 60 minute yoga class Tuesday – 90 minute yoga class Wednesday – 5 mile run and 30 minutes elliptical Thursday – 90 minute yoga class Friday – 3 mile run and 60 … Continue reading »
So you may remember WAAAAY back in February I mentioned that I was going to be starting to teach a yoga class at a new gym that was set to open in two weeks. Well, you know how construction goes, and I finally got a call at the beginning of April letting me know the … Continue reading »
Flow (a psychology definition) an intense focus on an activity accompanied by increased creativity and near-ecstatic feelings The other day in my psychology class we briefly talked about this while discussing motivation and goals. You may recognize this phenomenon as when an athlete gets “in the zone” or a musician or artist gets lost in … Continue reading »
Chances are if you’re a runner you know what your IT Band is (if not, lucky you!). Here are a few quick and easy poses (that you can even do while sitting and watching TV!) to show your IT Bands some love! begin seated crossing one leg over the other with knees stacked directly on … Continue reading »
Two weeks of recaps since I never posted last weekend (oops!): RECAP (4/15-4/21) Monday - 60 minutes yoga Tuesday – 4.09 mile run (#BostonStrong) Wednesday – rest day Thursday – rest day Friday – lots of walking in the city Saturday – 75 minute restorative yoga class, 3 mile run Sunday – 3 mile run Yoga - … Continue reading »
