Epic Success

So, I recently felt the need to redeem myself a little bit after my latest Epic Fail in the Hot Yoga studio a little over a week ago.  Although I have been practicing more at home now, I still felt this need for redemption and to make peace with the whole hot yoga thing once [...]

Epic Fail

Sometimes, mistakes are valuable.  They can often serve as immediate portals to that ultimate ‘ah ha’  moment when the inevitable challenge or difficulty you happen to be experiencing makes it glaringly obvious that you’ve fucked up and, hopefully, what you need to improve to prevent it from ever happening again.  I just happened to experience [...]

Hot Yoga Groove

Today (Saturday) was the kind of day you’d rather be inside sitting by the fireplace with a cup of hot chocolate, well, providing you’re legitimately sane anyway.  Me?  Oh, hell no!  Apparently I am the kind of guy that would prefer to strap on a pair of YakTrax , don the Sonclite mittens, sync up [...]

Cancun 70.3 (In Retrospect)

Since I’ve been on a big reminiscing kick lately given that’s it a new year as well as a new training season, not to mention the new goals I have set for myself in 2012, I’m going to kick the vanity level up another notch for one more post and share some photos from the [...]

Hot Confession

I have a real hot confession to make; and not the explicit Penthouse Letters kind of confessional although it may tend to be a bit “juicy” (right, Andrea?).  Okay, here it is:  I actually missed  hot yoga.  Yeah.  I know, right? After the Cancun 70.3 event, I thought to myself, “Thank Christ, that’s over!  No [...]

Yoga mat for sale! Used once – $1

This was forward to me by a friend (thanks, Jeff) the other day and even though I may not exactly be marrying myself off to anyone during class in the near future – because, hey, ‘sexy’ is not how I feel during any hot yoga class – I still think it’s pretty freakin’ hilarious.  I [...]

Looking Back

Long (Brick) Run (click to see stats) 13.41k (1:16:31) Avg. Heart Rate = 149bpm Max. Heart Rate = 158 bpm Avg. Pace = 5:42/km Best Pace = 4:43 /km Calories = 1275 Temp = 31º (Humidity: 65%) As I labored along sans iPod yesterday morning during my long brick run, I got to reminiscing about [...]

The 30 Day Yoga Challenge

Blessed are those who are flexible, for they shall never be bent out of shape.   I bit the bullet this morning and enrolled for a month’s membership at Yoga by Sarah,  except, in an attempt to feel more, well, manly and buff about it, I’m going to instead refer to as ‘Fox Base Yoga’.  [...]

Hot! Hot! Hot!

As you are no doubt already aware, I have become rather fixated on cracking this heat issue; specifically now that I have this heat wave to take advantage of.  So, here I am – like an idiot – out huffing and puffing and sweating my way through long workouts like a pregnant water buffalo in [...]

Twenty Valley Half Marathon

Twenty Valley Half Marathon (click to see stats & route) Chip Time = 1:52:54 (click to see race stats) Category Place = 10/21 (M 35-39) Overall Place = 48/171  Avg. Heart Rate = 166 bpm Max. Heart Rate = 175 bpm Avg. Pace = 5:19 /km Max. Pace = 2:56 /km Calories = 2010 Temp [...]