Waking up to a little bit of rain this morning was a bit of a treat.  It took the heat down a notch — just enough to push my mental strength over the top of the brim, so my cup-runneth-over.  The time had come….it’s time to run the Real HILL.  The RealMcCoy. Oh Baby!  Let’s Do IT! Read the rest of this entry →

Rest day was uplifting.  I biked to my Weight Watchers 8am meeting in a light breeze — it was glorious.  The scale was good to me because I was good to myself this week.  I had a loss of 4.4 pounds.  Ohh that feedback felt G.O.O.D.!!  All the good decisions I made this week regarding my body…lead to great decisions regarding food.  It’s funny how that works.  This week I ran 5 days, biked 3 days, did Zumba 2 days, gardened 1 day, hand weights everyday.  It was an extraordinary week — but it was just what I needed to prove to myself that my “POWER” was inside and all I had to do was wake the sleeping giant. Read the rest of this entry →

In today’s economic environment, unfortunately many of you might be able to relate to what I’m about to say.  You know how when you are working, and then your company downsizes, and you end up unemployed for a bit — you end up with a gap in your resume.  A Gap — Time that is unaccounted for.  When you go looking for a new job, recruiters and headhunters advise you to fill in the gap — ie, explain what you were doing with your time.  So your future employer doesn’t think you were “doing time somewhere“, instead of spending your time somewhere…..if you catch the difference!!  Here in the blog-o-sphere, I’ve got a gap — pretty much the entire month of August — where I didn’t post, didn’t blog, didn’t share.  And since it’s Saturday, and Saturday is a rest day from running — I figured I would take the time, accept responsibility, and explain to you, my loyal friends, what I did with those 4 weeks.  Fill in my gap.  Confess.  Here we go…. Read the rest of this entry →