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Pedal Power.
Happy Friday folks! It’s been one hell of a long week, so today I was in need of some inspiration. Luckily, I found it bright and early in my inbox via the press release below. A member of Team Type 1, which is a professional cycling team founded on the mission of wanting to ” instill hope […]
Foot love.
I blogged a few months ago about my latest sporting equipment, the Vibram Five Fingers “running shoe,” which is really just a way of encasing your feet in protective rubber with the intent to get you running as close to barefoot as possible. Proponents of the barefoot running movement believe us humans were never meant […]
Success.
It’s 3:30am, and the alarm goes off. Out of bed. Coffee. Ponytail. Red Rider Jersey. Out of the door. It’s 4am, and the Tour de Cure site is nothing but boxes right now. It’s pitch black and cold outside, but the Century Riders will be here in an hour. No time to waste. It’s 5am, […]
United.
One week from today, the 2011 San Diego Tour de Cure will be behind us. One full year of planning, endless volunteer committee meetings, thousands of emails, and what feels like a million hours of hard work will all be over. But right now, it’s less than a week away, and there’s no doubt about it: the […]
Maintenance.
Things I should do every day for my body, outside of anything diabetic: Ice each of my knees for 20 minutes after working out. Take an ibuprofen after workouts. Rest my back on a heat pad after driving all day for work. Use said heat pad for 20 minutes on each wrist to alleviate carpal […]
Fresh air.
The morning began cool and misty, and I pedaled my bike from my house the mile or so to where some friends were waiting. I rolled up to the parking lot around a quarter to eight to greet three smiling faces of fellow Tour de Cure riders - all three of them dressed in their […]
It’s all in the…feet…
Ok. So. First off all, get a good laugh out at the dorkalicious picture of me and my boyfriend in our SWEET new “barefoot” running shoes! Yes, we turned quite a few heads on our inaugeral run in these shoes, and probably not because of our dashing good looks. In fact, I could even hear […]
A Feet of Nature!
I’m well aware that I wrote an entire post dedicated to a miniature dessert yesterday, but today I’m going to flip a full 180 and blog about the latest sporting equipment I’ve just purchased and can’t freaking wait to try. Are those gloves for your feet in the photos below you ask? Nope. They are […]
We do it all on insulin.
People often ask me where I got the name for my blog. Although I do like to go running a few times a week to mix up my workouts, and I have run one half marathon, I’m not a runner at heart. If I was true to the sport that I’m most passionate about, this […]
Worth the workout?
I couldn’t be more stoked about my latest A1c of 6.0%, and of course it made me think about what changes I had made in the last three months that had gotten me there. Yes, I had been focused and diligent, but there’s one glaring difference in my lifestyle from the past few months that […]