Back when I was training for the Bremen half marathon over the summer, I was already thinking about the need for resetting my nutritional habits — so the Whole30 program that I’d been reading about on a lot of American fitness blogs intrigued me. What I liked most was the focus on improving health through nutrition, unlike …
If you’ve been following my blog this year, you know that I’ve taken on the challenge of relearning how to swim. I had developed a fear of water over the course of my adult life, and knew it was time to overcome it. Although I still wouldn’t consider myself a strong swimmer, and still experience …
At the moment, I am attempting to balance one of the biggest intellectual challenges I’ve ever faced with a fitness goal that’s pretty challenging in its own right. It might sound crazy training to run a personal best in a half marathon during the final months of writing my dissertation. But I believe strongly in the mind-body connection and …
You may or may not have noticed that I haven’t mentioned a peep about the Hamburg Half Marathon in more a month. It’s coming up in less than three weeks, so maybe I should give you a bit of an update, huh? Things on the training front have been very frustrating. Around the time I returned from …