SmarterFitter

I haven’t disappeared – am just completely inundated in holiday-related travel and festivities. I flew to Chicago on Christmas eve and am now about to head to Ohio for more family fun (and a long road trip with the immediate family – haven’t done that in a while). I’ll be back in town [...]

A reader sent me this quote from Adam Trimble after reading Tuesday’s update on my ankle injury:
It is very difficult to train for a marathon; but it is even more difficult to not be able to train for a marathon.

I don’t know who Adam Trimble is but he feels my pain. Looking forward to [...]

Heard about this through the tweetvine…
Freelance monthly column writer wanted for Shape magazine
We’re looking for candidates to pen Shape magazine’s 2010 Weight-Loss
Diary column. It’s a great gig: We’ll hook you up with a team of
qualified experts—a personal trainer, registered dietician, and life
coach—to aid you on your year-long weight-loss journey.
You’ll be paid to chronicle your [...]

We’re less than a week into our new place in the countryside and already I can feel the difference. Compared to London, one of the most noticeable differences is the noise (or lack thereof). Without the constant interruption of sleep noise, I’m finally enjoying the most restful sleep I’ve had in AGES! [...]

If you like Irish Soda Bread, you’ll like this hearty, seedy quick bread made with whole spelt flour.
I found this recipe on my pack of Gilchesters Organics “Stoneground Organic 100% Whole Spelt”, a “nutritionally rich, flavoursome flour.” The resulting loaf was not pretty. The crust was a bit tough and the dough didn’t [...]

I hope your Sunday is filled with better things than aimless web surfing. But just in case you are looking for a little joy to go with you morning coffee, here are a few links to perk you up…
Evita has a great post on the New Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides published by the Environmental [...]

Testing RSS feeds.

Maybe I’ll make “Totally Random Tuesdays” a regular theme. Maybe not. Either way, here’s a few totally unrelated links I’ve stumbled upon over the last few days that I thought were worth sharing.:
Fitness is not an overnight sensation [New York Times, via GetFitSlowly]
Plenty of people have dramatically changed their appearance through diet [...]

I was at dinner the other night with a group of people and the subject of meditation came up. Who of us meditates? How? What technique?
I never really thought of my “mind games” as meditation, but I suppose it’s true that I do practice a sort of self-defined meditation. For example, [...]