Really – my re-entry has been slow and my ability to break up with sloth has come in fits and starts but I can’t keep going on this way. I will train. I will race. I will reclaim my life. Bookmark and Share Powered by Bookmarkify™

This weekend I made a very bold move.  I difficult move. A move that found me eating humble pie which frankly is not all that delicious.  I broke up with sloth.      Saturday  I went swimming for the first time since before Thanksgiving. My legs cramped everywhere – even my shins.  I had to [...]

Anyone who knows me knows that my poor sense of direction is legendary. Today I went on a ‘group’ ride.  Only problem is that I haven’t been riding and I got dropped on a hill and then I just stopped to get some air in my body and I lost the group.  Undaunted I carried [...]

So after bitching about The Hunger Games I decided I needed to play well with others (others being my book club who wanted to talk about it) so I downloaded the first part, thoroughly prepared to hate it.  I did not.  I was just about as sucked in as a person can be.  I HAD to know [...]

“In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to [...]

    Sick of your usual breakfast? Here’s a new one for you. Go to Trader Joe and buy some plain lassi and frozen mango. Cut up 2 mango slices into little pieces. Put lassi, mango and a scoop of protein powder in the blender and whip it up. Dee-lish! If you don’t have Trader [...]

Hitting bottom is the place addicts get to when chronic unemployment, loss of friendship, living in dire straights,  having no money, stealing from people you love, all of which can be attributed to your use of addictive substances (or food or gambling or sex), finally become so over powering that they  are forced to face [...]

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I’ve already gone from “1 Down, 5 or so to Go” to “2 Down, 2 or 3 to Go”.  It’s the new math!    Or it’s because I missed a race due to illness, injury and apathy to train and  then did what was supposed to be race #3 only to be hit upside the [...]

I saw Thor last night.  I don’t generally go to action films because they usually involve cars flying through the air and buildings blowing up and I find that disturbing but I really wanted NOT to spend yet another Saturday night at home and my friend’s husband picked Thor so Thor it was. Thor is, [...]