This is where it kind of all began: I was a gym-goer for some years and I never saw any results. I had heard of Insanity and decided to give it a try, it was one of the toughest things I’ve done but completing the program gave me so much confidence that it made me […]
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F^3 Lake Half Marathon [A Race Report]
Well, well, well…SURE, I’ll run a half on the Lakefront in Chicago…in JANUARY…during a POLAR VORTEX. To be fair, the high for the day was about four hours prior to race start time (10:00am). I spent my early morning (after sleeping in!) enjoying sipping some coffee and doing some blogging. Around 8:45am, I started getting […]
SweatGuru Hits the MidWest!
SweatGuru Hits the MidWest SweatGuru Partners with Athleta and Fitness Studios to Kick Off Its Midwest Expansion Fitness listing service for businesses & consumers offers free public events Jan. 30-Feb.7 San Francisco, CA – Jan. 30, 2014 – As part of ongoing expansion across the United States, SweatGuru, the marketplace that connects people with fitness classes and […]
#UltraAwesome with Cindi BeMent, Kickingitin
Jamie sits down with Cindi BeMent from Kickingitin.com to talk about running her first 50K race.
Christmas cookie nostalgia
The blogger cookie exchange that Andrea organized this month really got my creative (read: sprinkle) juices flowing, so I did what any reasonable gal would do: I made a triple-batch of sugar cookies. As I mentioned before, these cookies are a Christmas tradition in my family. I learned how to make them over many years […]
Class review from Chicago: Vinyasa 1-2 at Chaturanga Holistic Fitness
I spent the last weekend at a conference in Chicago. Outside of the sessions, I spent my time merrymaking my way down memory lane (staying with a dear friend from grad school, haunting the places I used to live in and frequent, and feeling dwarfed in Chicago’s architecturally and proportionally staggering downtown). Needless to say, […]