Walking is known as a great destresser. However, when most people start walking, they start with great gusto, high energy, and bounce right into “power walking” before giving their body a chance to catch up. This can quickly lead to overtraining, the symptoms of which include: poor athletic performance structural injury secondary to muscle...

5 months from tomorrow (April 16) I will celebrate my 50th birthday. I’ve thought long and hard about how I’d like to mark that day. I’m actually rather excited about reaching that momentous landmark in my life, and am looking forward to celebrating. Most of my life I’ve struggled with excess weight and some real issues with fatigue. I have...

Further to my “notes and quotes” post of last Friday on the book Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond I wanted to add one more important point the authors make about staying young and healthy.  This is regarding faith: People who search for meaning in their lives and their experiences survive...

A couple of weeks ago, after my half marathon, I began to rethink my training.  Was I pushing too hard? was I being ridiculous?  Could I not just “go for a walk” and be happy? For the two weeks after my half marathon I did next to no walking.  At least, no “training” walking as I tried to figure out how to work walking into a ridiculously...

I’ve been spending a lot of time since my last race thinking about how I want to move ahead with my training. Technically I have my second Marathon in October, and I’ve been setting up my training to be able to accomplish that one well. However, doing it well requires that every weekend I’m doing a LOOONG walk (3-5 hours) which takes up a chunk of...