Tired of hearing crickets on my blog? I thought it was time for a new post. I switched jobs for the second time this year, right after finishing the New York City Marathon. An early AM start to my workday has led me to shift around my fitness routine…and maybe almost every other routine that […]
The New York City Marathon is a race that I have wanted to run for about as long as I have known of its existence. Those in the know are aware that it isn’t the easiest race to get in to. So I made my commitment to this race more than a year ago, when […]
I sit next to a woman at work with a metabolism that confounds me. She is tall and thin, claims to exercise less than twice per week, and eats ALL DAY LONG. Miraculously, I don’t hate her. Shockingly, I don’t envy her. We work in one of those open-style synergistic work-spaces that offer no privacy […]
By now it should be obvious that I practically took July off from RachelOnandOn altogether. Two posts? Yes, that should have been a sign. I have to say that I love having El Profesor around all of the time again. So when I come home from work and he says, “Let’s do something fun,” I’m […]
Disclaimer: There is a lot of Nike in this post, so I just want to say at the outset that this is NOT a sponsored post. There are just some things that I think they do extremely well – far better than the competition – and I often find myself rocking the swoosh, particularly during summer […]
Writing my 100th post seems almost as challenging as writing the very first. I am so grateful that I decided to pursue writing again. I have vented. I have shared. I have taught. I have learned. There have been times I have written more, and times that I have written less. As with all things […]
On Sunday morning I added a new game to my repertoire: Cat(ch) Me If You Can It is no secret that I do most of my training in Central Park. And since my usual routes consist of the four-mile loop, the northern or southern five-mile loops or the full six-mile loop, I tend to run […]
El Profesor and I took a trip uptown to Costco last week to stock up our new place. Our need for toilet paper and paper towels coupled with our desire not to have to make weekly trips to CVS to buy them was the catalyst for our trip. But I also viewed it as a […]
I recently had the pleasure of attending a team building activity with my entire department from work. The event was fantastic. We had a group cooking lesson and made our own dinner. It was a wonderful experience to roll up our sleeves and roll out spring vegetable risotto balls alongside colleagues and department heads. That […]
How do you keep yourself motivated during a workout? This post is not about motivating yourself to work out. This is about keeping yourself focused during your workout. Here are three of the games that I have been playing to stay focused during training sessions: 1. Twitter + Plank Plank is one of those core exercises […]
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