Hey Oprah, I have a Stedman too!
My “Lil Steddy” is slim, dark and handsome, oh and slightly bulky in all the right places. He runs with me, helping me along the way. Today he yelled at me for going too fast/slow. Yep, he know what I want and need and keeps me right on target. I’m in love! (more…)
What I’m about to relay may not actually be an example of “irony”, it’s more like what my mama would call “you got yo’ nerve, girl”. But as I’ve recently learned that most people misuse the word “irony”, I’m all confused about it. So in my usual highly clever fashion, this post is dedicated to the illiterate runners such as myself who may or may not think it’s IRONIC that a girl who recently despised running, would write a post shunning people who despise running.
Sunday night when I was out for a friend’s birthday, singing karaoke at an insanely cool rotating bar which sits about 15 stories in the air, the topic came up about how bad running is for your body. Now, keeping in mind one person at this table knows about my secret journey to “Run, Black Girl, Run”, I tried to remain calm but felt the inner debater in me rear her ugly head. (more…)
So yesterday I headed out for my first run with the New Garmin. Yep, I got a Garmin, I got a Garmin. I’m EXCITED, can you tell? Well, I can’t really say new, it’s new-sed, as I bought it from a guy on Craig’s list who referred to pants as trousers. Needless to say I was super stoked to try it out. I usually do one run per week with the group since that’s all I can handle with all the talking they prefer to do. But this week, I had to go back. When I woke up in the morning, my knees literally jumped out of their sockets and said “Oh hell no!” Apparently, they weren’t excited about the impending 4.5 mile run. We made a compromise, we would get a short run in, just so I could play with the Garmin, but cut it short if needed. (more…)
I searched PROUD in google images and this is what came up...
So yesterday I was talking to my BFF, I’ll call her KT, and we were talking about working out, getting fit, and the goodness of cake, and she confessed to me that she really wanted to incorporate running in her life. At that very moment, I heard dramatic music and the sky opened up, and all the sun in my world came out.
Why is this a big deal? Well, first, I LOVE this girl. She is super amazing, supportive, and probably knows me more than I know myself. We are god parents of each others daughters and most importantly we are one of the few people who each other can stand for long periods of time. We have been through so much together, including being behind bars (well, for about 2 hours) and me sitting under a table in her delivery room as she was giving birth to her first child. So it just makes me want to jump for joy to know that we will be able to conquer running together. Additionally, we decided to do the Komen 5K Race for the Cure on the National Mall in June. This will be KT’s first and my second. I committed that I would run with her once a week. She is doing the same version of the C25K program I started in January. So I am hoping I can help her get through it.
Today was day one for her. (more…)
I got the best email today from Miss Angel Stone AKA Fitness Goddess/Personal Trainer/She-Ro/Amazing Muscles-Haver/Fellow Running Addict. The answers to your “running” questions from my previous post entitled “Ask The Expert”. For those of you that missed it, here is the skinny. My awesome personal trainer, Angel Stone, was gracious enough to answer questions from readers on the topic of running. She got some really great questions, and here are her really great answers. (more…)
I’m writing you all from West Palm Beach, Florida. Got in yesterday. Had a few crazy first day teaching moments probably due to the lack of sleep the night before (a record low 23mins). Nothing as bad as walking in to class without pants, but let’s just say, a few west palm kids are really confused about the meanings of a few words courtesy of yours truly. Oops!
So I gotta make this short because I am in a hotel that thinks free wireless Internet is just a little too much customer service. I could pay, but I don’t like paying for things I can steal for free. Thus, I’ll deal with posting on my phone, sans all the pretty pictures.
Thanks to all your encouraging words, about my loserville run, I got up and ran today at 7:30am. (more…)
We all know too well the story of Bgirl875′s addiction to the treadmill, and how she made up every excuse in the book to stay comfortable. But most importantly, how much she LOVED running outdoors and now vows, barring injury or excessive force, to never get on that damned thing again.
I assume there are other runners in the same predicament I was only a short while ago, so I wanted to share an article posted in Runner’s World today here (more…)
Angel is a lot of things that you can read about here but most importantly she is my favorite personal trainer/fitness goddess and the other person outside of RRBA I call my She-Ro.
If you checked out my post two weeks ago about Beating the Competition, you’ve already got a little glimpse of her hilarious and educational blog Fit & Hungry. If you haven’t go check it out now, and I’ll wait. OK, you back? Funny, huh?
Well, apparently, my comments on her ridiculously sick body flattered her enough to commit to letting me interview her on my blog. (more…)
So there’s this really AWFUL hill on my run route. I hate this hill, it sucks pig butt and goat balls both at the same time. Every time I go out, I feel it looking up at me laughing.
In my head, it feels like I’m running up this:
In reality, it is not that bad. But it is about 600m of nice sized incline and it sits 3 miles into my run. So needless to say, at about 3 miles, I’m already talking my legs out of walking AND the last thing I need is some damned hill laughing at me.
Today, was a good day. I woke up, feeling very brave. I walked up to my running group said hello and you won’t believe this but (more…)
