• Another Fitocracy Challenge Win

    I could have sworn I previously mentioned Fitocracy on here, but a quick search tells me I’m wrong. Well, a brief explanation of what it is is clearly in order. It is primarily a site on which to track your fitness, but it has the added bonus of assigning points to all the work you

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  • CrossFit

    Being a fitness geek, I’ve known about CrossFit for years now. Knowing that it would never fit my jumpy schedule and training habits, I’ve written it off as a great method for general fitness (you won’t win an olympic medal doing CF alone, but it’s going to be incredibly useful in the apocalypse) that simply

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  • Let’s Not Do That Again

    Got off the blogging horse a bit there. For the past few weeks, I’ve been working pretty much every night and weekend. I did manage to take time for working out and prior engagements, but holy heck, that sucked. The cause was a team failure… Our lead overpromised, we didn’t call him out loudly enough,

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  • Kids On A Plane

    No, I do not have kids. Yes, I do plan on having some. I think taking kids on planes is awesome. It’s an experience that all children should have. It means they’re seeing more of the world than their home or daycare, and I feel in the long run that they’ll be better people for

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  • I’m An Adult Now

    As I write this, I hover somewhere around 40,000 feet over the Atlantic en route to Florida. The trip is unexpected, I will not be tanning on the beach, and it comes at a most inopportune time, but with adulthood comes such responsibility. My grandmother had a fall and while in relatively good shape for

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  • A Monumental Run

    Following the airing of the US Marathon Trials (spoiler warning!), I found myself without a team in the playoffs, a little bored, and in need of a run. On the downside, it was dark and 30 degrees. Whatever… that’s running. After about 20 minutes of prep, I was double-layered from head to toe, had my credit

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