By Tracey, on May 23rd, 2011
Photo by Cr4nberry
What does it mean to be competitive? Is it sprinting to the finish line to beat the girl in front of you? Maybe it’s besting your previous personal record at a race? Racing can mean something slightly different for each individual. I’ve been in many races where my goal has been “just to finish”. But there have been other instances where I’ve definitely been bitten by the competition bug. Overall though, I tend to think that I’m mostly competitive with myself. These days I usually have a time goal in mind for a race and I zero . . . → Read More: A Little Competition
By Sara, on February 16th, 2011 Hi. Howareya.
I’ve been a bit of a slacker in getting my series installments up here on FitMilwaukee.com, and I feel pretty bad about that. So, I’m sorry. (Inhale, exhale.) Now that I’ve acknowledged that I haven’t been able to keep up with my previously promised blogging schedule, and apologized for being such a slacktard, I’m moving on.
That’s how I’m working on getting through the ups and downs of recovering from surgery, dealing with the ups and downs of my condition, and coping through setbacks in the healing process and training schedule. I acknowledge the frustration, disappointment, sadness, or just general pissed-off-ness, . . . → Read More: Reconstructing a Beer Runner – Try again.
By Tracey, on February 7th, 2011 I’m reposting this from a while back because in the dead of the Wisconsin winter it can be hard to hold onto motivation. Februray is notoriously rough and while you may feel those goals and resolutions starting to slip away remember to keep your eyes on the prize. There were some great comments from some of you last week where you stated what inspires you to get you on your feet and moving on low energy days. Keep up the good work!
Photo by Mike Baird.
How do you stay motivated to work out? A lot of us have been there. You . . . → Read More: Stick With It
By Sara, on December 22nd, 2010 For those of you that have never heard of the “Spoon Theory” by Christine Miseradino, I encourage you to go to her website and read it. Then come back. It’s okay. I’ll wait.
This is the part where you visit Christine’s site, read the Spoon Theory, and then come back. Go! (And then come back!)
Photo by Eva Eckblad
The first time I read that piece, I cried. Hard. Someone had put into words exactly what frustrates me about my medical shenanigans. Each day I have a fixed number of spoons to use, and I have to plan my life around that. Along . . . → Read More: Reconstructing a Beer Runner: Spoons.
By Sara, on October 27th, 2010 I love food. I live to eat and drink and be merry. I feed people as a way to show my love for them. I love to cook. I love to try new foods, strange foods, foods that no one else at the table will touch. It’s part of who I am. I associate food with joy, family, and new experiences. (I’m not saying any of this is a healthy way to look at food, it’s just the way I look at food. It isn’t going to change. I don’t feel the need to change it, either.) In the past, I operated . . . → Read More: Reconstructing A Beer Runner – Saying Goodbye to Second Breakfast
By Sara, on October 13th, 2010 I thought this week would be easier. I mean, it’s the first week, we’re just talking physical therapy and a series of walks. No problem. Well, I did have some problems, and honestly, I feel like a kind of a failure/slacker. I ended the week two miles short of my 12 mile goal. It may not be the end of the world, but setting small milestones and hitting them is really important for me. If I look at the big picture all the time and focus on how much work I have to do overall, I get really overwhelmed. It’s more . . . → Read More: Reconstructing a Beer Runner – This is suck.
By Tracey, on April 12th, 2010 This weekend I spent a lot of time thinking about goals. More specifically, how my fitness goals have shifted and changed over the past two years. On Saturday, I ran the South Shore Half Marathon with a handful of friends- a really great group of runners who are all at different levels. As for me, I came into the race looking at it as another training run for my upcoming full marathon, but in the back of my head I knew I wanted to break my previous half marathon time from last August (2:04) and hopefully even crack the . . . → Read More: Monday Motivation: Rethinking Expectations
By Guest Author, on February 28th, 2010 Stephanie is a 31-year-old mother of one 9-year-old girl, a registered nurse, an on-again/off-again smoker (mostly on), and a moderate drinker. She would like to Represent for all of us out there who are, shall we say, more moderate in our fitness goals. Her goal is to keep it real and serve as a voice for those of us who will likely never run a half-marathon, let alone a full, but who struggle to maintain at least a moderate regimen. You can find her on Twitter as @stephjothor.
When my best friend, Tracey, told me that she and . . . → Read More: “I Drink, Therefore I Run”
By Guest Author, on February 15th, 2010 Erica Conway can relate to the saying, “The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start, ” coined by John “the Penguin” Bingham. She often jokes that she is a plowhorse amongst gazelles, as most of her running friends are much speedier. She doesn’t mind being the slowest, she’s out there having fun, trying to stay fit, just trying to keep up with the cool kids.
. . . → Read More: Recommitting to Being Fit: Erica Conway
By Marty, on February 3rd, 2010 Fit Milwaukee would like to welcome guest writer Kheenan Halvorson who maintains his own blog over at UFF-DA. Kheenan’s first post will kick off a new series of mobile app reviews to appear here every Wednesday.
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Lose It is a fitness/weight management app made easy on the iPhone and . . . → Read More: Mobile App Review – Lose It by FitDay
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