When my husband woke up a few days after surgery and said, “If there’s one thing you could do for me today to make my life better, it would be make be a more comfortable sling!” I got right to thinking. The sling that he came home from the hospital with was made of a fabric [...]
Working Out the Running Kinks and Swimming Strains Using Proper Form in the Fastlane
Even though I was a reasonable recreational swimmer as a child and young adult, I didn’t take up swimming seriously as part of my routine until a number of years ago when I found I couldn’t run like I wanted to (a problem which I now attribute to shoes, which is why I run mostly [...]
How to Know When to Adjust Your Workout Goals and Just Rest
Let’s face it. Fun is often exhausting. Even with getting a good night’s sleep regularly, sometimes the body has just had enough. It can be hard to decide when that is, though. How can we decide if some exercise will help us perk up and get the blood flowing versus push us to the edge [...]
Shamrock Shuffle 10K Run with Heart Palpitations
If you had asked me that morning what my biggest concern about the race was, it would have been whether or not to attempt to run with bare feet. Having recently run as far as 9 miles without any kind of footwear, and loved it, I knew I still had to consider Idaho back country roads. [...]
Experiment in Running Through the Pain with Barefoot Techniques – Part 2 Strategies for the Run
The first thing to do was decide if my knee pain had any urgent or deteriorating qualities to it. A couple of days of evaluation lead me to conclude that it was reasonable to try to run. I still wanted to adhere to my workout plan as much as possible, though. So, the next day I swam half an [...]






