Bear with me as I do a little Think Out Loud Thursday…on Wednesday…everything get’s thrown out the window on Holiday weeks! I’m done with “lose 10 lbs in 10 days”…

Details on the Spring Challenge Workouts and an easy place to reference them each week and get additional details on any move which you may not know. Feel free to…

Singing Jingle bells slightly off key, warm bowls of chili and hot cups of cider, cuddling under a blanket and feeling totally justified staying at home all day to watch…

Looking for registration and details?? — >>> Click here You’ve been emailing, asking in the forums, tweeting questions, sending hand written pleas by carrier pigeon…so here it is the final…

No I didn’t flip the words…or maybe you didn’t even notice the order because you’ve been so accustomed to reading “the pursuit of happiness”. This is about how having a…

Race week injuries. We’ve attributed them to over training and “taper madness” for years, but we still believe something physically must be wrong. This post is going to piss off…

How do you sum up a weekend of being immersed in something that you love with great people in a beautiful setting? No really, how?! Do I now want to…

You know how hospitals smell?? That weird mixture of antiseptic, air spray and circulated air that hits you full force when you step through those sliding doors? I braced myself…

As the sweat started trickling down my back for the 30th consecutive 16 hour day traipsing door-to-door in the Atlanta heat, it hit me like a ton of homemade cookies,…

My analytics tell me that thousands of you are visiting each day…I have gotten to know about 10% of you through great comments, challenges and events. The technical term for…

Last spring I started the low heart rate training method {LHR}, popularized by Phil Maffetone. It’s been buzzed about it for years, but it took Miss Zippy sharing her process…

Get ready to geek out friends. If you love tracking workouts or get motivated by seeing progress on numbers, 2014 is the year it’s all going to grow even more.…

I love to talk running. No surprises there. However, I didn’t expect to be chatting running with the COO/President of Sony this week! Let’s back up a little bit though……

I hadn’t planned to post again after the fitness giveaway until Monday to take an official break…but our Christmas turned out to be quite lovely and I had to share.…

Thus far I am happy to report my marriage remains in tact after 2 full days of eating almost nothing but juice. I was surprisingly not HANGRY at all…had I…

If you are considering a juice cleanse, review day 1 {the right way to do a juice cleanse} and day 2 {touted benefits of juice cleanse} as well! I was…

In an ideal world, we would all eat in response to true hunger. But the truth is we get in to habits of eating because of time of day, response…

How to stay active while traveling? How to eat clean while traveling? How to come home without needing to unbutton your jeans? Questions like this are definitely among the most…

It’s cliché to call him my best friend or the love of my life, but I think that’s because words sometimes fail to explain what it means when you find…

You may notice that you’ve never seen a race countdown clock on my site. I don’t post each week how many days are left and when people ask the date…

Three minutes before the 17 hour cut off 78-year-old Harriett Anderson crossed the finish line as the oldest official finisher, the winner of her age group and the last official…

Tomorrow I want to share with you the story of one of the original 1978 Ironman finishers {15 entered, 12 finished}…then more of what we saw throughout the 2013 Ironman…

I don’t run in a sports bra…ever. I have talked before on the blog about me “abs” goal and my lack of having defined abs. I also recognize that eating…

Can you imagine going out for your first run and doing a run/walk for just 20 minutes…knowing that you are already signed up for the Ironman World Championship race in…

Do you remember as a kid when someone asked how old you were and you ALWAYS aimed for the higher age: “6 and 1/2”, “almost 8”, “I’ll be 18 next…

I am participating in a sponsored campaign hosted by Advil®, as part of the Advil® Relief in Action campaign. I received compensation for this post. While all opinions stated are…

Stetson. What comes to mind when you hear that name? Perhaps Stetson hats makes you think of cowboys or maybe you are a coinsurer of fine liquor in which case…

While I told you all about enjoying our long run in Park City {even with the altitude}, I wanted to also spend a little time telling you more about the…

After attending World Spinning and Sports Conditioning Conference last weekend in Miami, I’m now thinking there aren’t enough hours in the day because I want to do more Pilates and…

After Sandy hit NYC, I couldn’t see how the race would go on…but after a few days they said loud and clear the race will happen. It is my belief…

Running doubles used to be one of my favorite things to do. Then in the last training cycle I started focusing on speed work and tempos, so I cut back…

If you’ve ever watched a movie being filmed you realize that it takes about 10 hours of insane planning and organization to get the few minutes you see on screen…but…

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a celebration of ME! I have to admit this must be one of the better perks to blogging, you really do get to…

First thank you to everyone who reached out yesterday. Unfortunately, I don’t really have any better answers now that when it first happened. I am largely sharing this now to…

Living in Miami one might assume I’m used to seeing famous people strut the streets…but honestly I’m asleep by the time they go out. SOOO…yes, I was a bit awe…

The New Year is a time that many people see as a change to wipe the slate clean and start fresh…I also see it as a way to start the…

My knees are sore, but my heart is full! What a great week of running, blogger meet ups, Oakley Ambassador meet ups and oh yes work! OAKLEY AMBASSADOR I was…

Mr.BMX loves to bike and I have always seen options for biking tours when we go on vacation, but declined because at that time I just wasn’t biking much. Now…

I absolutely love relay races. I wouldn’t want to do one every week mind you, but they are just a crazy amazing experience. Talk about an incredible way to get…

Our cruise started off with a bang…we got upgraded to a room with a balcony! Wooot what a difference this made, especially since I was all funky dunkey motion sick.…

My weight loss journey has been a slow and steady path from college to now…but really it all began long before that with how I felt about myself in high…

Hope you can read all of the captions there…seemed like a fun way to post a recap… I’m not going to do a full race recap. I think what I…