Fitness

Club Flirtation

Yesterday, I was scheduled to walk up my hill for exercise but was thwarted by the rain. I have been noticing that I don’t have hard workouts with just walking and yoga. I was too tired after a hike last weekend. My stamina and endurance have waned since being gym-less. I had been ambivalent about […]

Club Flirtation Read More »

Interval Texting

On my morning walk up the hill, I got a text from a gf on the east coast. We hadn’t chatted in a while so I texted her back while I was walking. I described the ocean channel and islands bathed in the orange light of sunrise. I noticed that I had to slow down

Interval Texting Read More »

Map My Life

I take my phone with me when I exercise so I have my audiobook or my tunes to entertain me during my workout. Since I have my phone, I have cool apps to measure how far, how long, how high I go: I use Map My Walk and Map My Ride. On the rare days

Map My Life Read More »

Sleep

Health experts tout all the things we should do to stay fit and well: eat organic low fat food, exercise regularly, get regular checkups, blah blah blah. I drank the purple kool-aid years ago on these recommendations but the one that I can’t implement is the “get 8 hours of sleep” action item. Eating and

Sleep Read More »

Counting

Although counting is the action of finding the number of elements of a finite set of objects, it is a way for me to mark off time. I used to count steps to and from school (as well as going the exact same way to and fro) and used an 8-count for ballet class. Playing

Counting Read More »