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09 August 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Home Acupressure on the Vila Mat

After my “If I Were a Rich Girl” post the kind folks at Vila contacted me and said they would send me a Vila Mat to try. I was stoked about that.  Because I had started to read more and more about acupressure mats and their supposed benefits.  Some of the benefits I found online: [...]

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21 June 2011 ~ 13 Comments

Tangible

I like things that are concrete.  Real.  Tangible. It doesn’t necessarily have to be something that I can hold; but I do prefer being able to see it, feel it, recognize it or know it. Running feels tangible to me.  I can see that I have run X many miles.  I can see that I [...]

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07 May 2011 ~ 9 Comments

2011 Race for the Cure

Start line
I almost wasn’t going to get to do this race this year… Almost! My Team Challenge co-coach is competing in the St. George Ironman today so I thought I would need to take care of the team.  But my wonderful friend Jimmy stepped in and covered for me, so I got to do the annual Race for the Cure with my mom.  This was our 5th Race for the Cure in Las Vegas and our 6th one overall.

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03 May 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Treadmills & Eating Disorders

This is a guest post by Aaron O’Connor, a former track & field athlete, currently a writer and amateur fitness trainer in Washington state. TreadmillReviews.net blog In general, exercise is a healthy behavior that encourages physical fitness and well-being. Yet for those individuals who suffer from eating disorders, exercise can become an obsession or compulsion, [...]

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28 April 2011 ~ 13 Comments

Selling Shame

Emilie wrote a post recently about Dove‘s Campaign for Real Beauty, posing the question if Dove is truly doing something to watch out for women’s well-being or just selling products. Then I saw a clip on The Colbert Report where Stephen Colbert spoke about a new deodorant from Dove, their Go Sleeveless deodorant.  This stuff [...]

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14 March 2011 ~ 9 Comments

Want motivation? Sign up for a race! Or… Uh…

The common thought is that if you find your motivation lacking you should commit to something!  Sign up for a race, make a goal, put it in writing, tell others and get to work!  And often that works like a charm.  It’s been a solid tactic for me on many occasions. But lately? Not so [...]

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