About Time

About Time

The idea of time consumes my thoughts.

I recently started working out at Orange Theory Fitness. It’s a gym that specializes in interval training. Each class has a treadmill, row, and free weights section. It fascinates me how 30 seconds on the treadmill at a sprint can seem like an eternity.

Yet before class, I look at the time, and I’ve got 15 minutes until I need to be in the car.

I get my sneakers.

I put them on.

I tie them.

And, suddenly 20 minutes have gone by, and I am five minutes late.

Aaaaaahhhhhhh!

How does that happen?

Fifty and the Journey Continues!

If you read my last blog, you may wonder whether I completed my 50-mile journey before I turned 50. You didn’t read my last blog? Really? OK, for those of you who did, let’s pause a second while we wait for those who didn’t, so everyone is caught up. Here is...
50 by 50: Resetting Normal

50 by 50: Resetting Normal

I turn 50 tomorrow. While attending a Mental Toughness seminar last month, I decided to challenge myself with running 50 miles over consecutive days without any breaks between days. I asked my personal trainer, who was giving the seminar, what she thought about my...
Tuna Run: a nonstop 200 Mile Relay

Tuna Run: a nonstop 200 Mile Relay

When my friend Jerry e-mailed me asking me to join his relay team for the Tuna 200 run, I immediately thought three things: first, my trainer Jackie must have put him up to this because I would not be the first or fiftieth person he would think to ask to add to his...