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“Official Fitness Journal 2006 Standings” October 30, 2006

Posted by Amber D. Evans in : Reflections, Blacksburg VA, Training Stats , 3 comments

Oh, this is kinda’ sweet! Here I am, feeling bad and bemoaning the fact that I’ve been SLACKING in my workouts this past week. I’m sitting here thinking, Oh geez. The weather sucks. The darkness sucks. My weight sucks. My motivation sucks. Bah, I suck.

And then I log into my FitnessJournal website and see this announcement:

Official Fitness Journal 2006 Standings
By popular request, you can now see if you made the top 250 in total workouts, distance, calories, hours, or steps! This chart is located in the charts and graphs section and is re-calculated hourly.

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“41 Superfoods for Power Eating”

Posted by Amber D. Evans in : Reflections, Blacksburg VA , 3 comments

Working in a library has some cool perks. For example, you wouldn’t believe the number of interesting books that cross my hands each and every day. To be honest, there’s so many of them which have never even crossed my mind before. It’s like being exposed to different music or cultures without your say. I rather like it.

Anyway, many of the reads I bring home with me are centered around bicycling, training, eating, breadmaking, and stories about “how fat people got thin (or didn’t).” Of course, I never have any time to actually read them. I just skim them for the good stuff since school demands my actual reading attention.

Today, I brought home two books. One is called Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore and the other is Eat Smart Play Hard by Liz Applegate, Ph.D. The first is frighteningly disturbing and the latter is so darn practical! I love it. (more…)

Trying (not tri-ing) my new life so far … October 4, 2006

Posted by Amber D. Evans in : General, Reflections, Blacksburg VA, Training Stats , 6 comments

Things are going okay for me.

I’ve officially entered “off-season” training as of October 1st. Of course, I was never really “on-season” this year as I never entered or competed in a tri this year, but whatever. There were plenty of other things I had done and next time I’ll talk about those accomplishments. (They involve cycling, friendships, and life’s little pleasures at least!)  Today, I’ll talk about where things currently stand.
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