Tomorrow will be 5 weeks that I’ve been sidelined from a stress fracture in my foot. I have a follow up appointment tomorrow and will find out what the next few weeks hold in terms of wearing a boot, healing, and exercise. I’ve been in this injury situation before and although I don’t like it, I know it’s important for me to slow down and let my body heal so that I can get back to doing what I love. In reflecting over the past month, I wanted to share some of the things that have helped me. I’d like… View Post

At times, I can be a stubborn person. I’m most stubborn when it comes to getting injured. The only times I go to the doctor are for annual physicals because a) I don’t normally get sick (knock on wood) and b) when I do, I usually just wait it out and let my body attack itself because somehow I’ve convinced myself that that will make me into a superhero. I mentioned in this post that I hurt my foot. This weekend, while working with Donut at her puppy training graduation (yay!), I scooped her up to carry her out of… View Post

It seems like forever since I’ve talked to you guys about fitness. I do some freelance writing for other sites, so I’ve been writing a good amount of exercise and fitness posts, just not on here. Whoops. I also don’t write about fitness in the conventional way of prescribing workouts or talking about training plans (although that’s ALL I used to do when I started). The more I work in the field, the more I realize that fitness is such an individual thing, a theme I’ve been finding in many other areas of life as well. This post is written… View Post