Notes:
- SMWI* = Saturday morning workout inspiration.
- Source: wsj.com. A dog catches a flying disk during a competition in Moscow. Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters.
SMWI*: Fly!
September 19, 2015 by 5 Comments
SMWI*: Cadre
September 12, 2015 by 33 Comments
“In the series ‘Wonderland creatures‘, French dancer Arthur Cadre photographed and performed mesmerizing body positions in natural landscapes. The images, which were shot in locations around the world, see Cadre twisting his body and transforming himself into ethereal forms that complement the backdrop. In addition to dance, he practices disciplines such as acrobatics, parkour and contortion.”
Don’t miss other Cadre’s other body position shots: Arthur Cadre Captures Twisting Body Poses In Nature
SMWI*: Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
SMWI*: Swim (60 sec)
September 5, 2015 by 15 Comments
Notes: SMWI* = Saturday morning workout inspiration.
Running. With Tug-o-McWhopper.
August 27, 2015 by 35 Comments
It’s 4:26 am. Hump Day.
The scale works, with its condescending blink-blink-blink.
Down B*tch. Down.
It flashes Up.
Up 8 lbs since the last running post over a month ago.
Wow.
I turn to the morning papers. Headline: Burger King has reached out to McDonald’s with a 1-day cease-fire offer to combine the Whopper with the Big Mac to create the McWhopper. Wow.
I shift uncomfortably on the couch.
Don’t care? Don’t want to? Too hot?
Where’s the disgust? The fury?
Riding Apathy Road here.
Wow. [Read more…]
Running. With America.
July 5, 2015 by 31 Comments
Words cut.
And she held the knife.
“I HATE AMERICA.”
Yes, in CAPS.
5:30 am. July 4th, 2015.
The Wolf Pack was settled in the car and heading down I-95 S.
Six lanes, devoid of traffic.
Eerie. A post-apocalyptic moment on I-95. Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” Gray skies, light rain spitting on windshield. No Ash.
I HATE AMERICA.
“She” is Anonymous on the inter-tunnel. She repeats IT over and over, in Caps, a vitriolic cadence wrapped around each of America’s stated ills.
We’re two miles in at Mianus River Park.The terrain is hilly. I’m a roller coaster, with slow climbs up, and gravity pushing faster and faster downward. No. You are a Burro. A Burro carrying an oversized load with its belly dragging. You strain with each step. Your breathlessness, is a suffering inhale-exhale far less refined than the hee-haw of the Burro. Sad eyes drooping, staring down at hooves tiptoeing around rocks, roots and ruts.
I HATE AMERICA.
I read the post on Friday. The words still fresh, blood spilled. Words coming from an American, mid-20s. A Woman. [Read more…]
Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
June 27, 2015 by 19 Comments
Check out Clara’s other work on Instagram.
She is graphic designer and illustrator from Tuscany now living in Berlin.
Source: thesensualstarfish
SMWI*: The Big Question
June 6, 2015 by 14 Comments
SMWI*: Tarahumara
May 30, 2015 by 16 Comments
“According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog from New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit. Other Tarahumara runners reportedly went three hundred miles at a pop. That’s nearly twelve full marathons, back to back to back, while the sun rose and set and rose again. And the Tarahumara weren’t running along smooth, paved roads, either, but scrambling up and down steep canyon trails formed only by their own feet.”
~ Christopher McDougall, Born to Run
Notes:
- SMWI* = Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
- Source: Invisible Stories. Photo: Tarahumara huaraches
Running. With Whippoorwills.
May 24, 2015 by 22 Comments
Mile Marker 0:
It’s 4:25 am, and Quiet but for the whippoorwills which break the silence. How do I know they are whippoorwills? Because I like to say w-h-i-p-p-o-o-r-w-i-l-l-s. And because that’s the only way I can work in this beautiful poem by Howard Moss.
And then the whippoorwill
Begins its tireless, cool,
Calm, and precise lament—
Again and again and again—
Its love replying in kind,
Or blindly sung to itself,
Waiting for something to happen.~ Howard Moss, from “Going to Sleep in the Country,” New Selected Poems
Tireless, cool, calm, and precise lament. Again and again and again.
Not the tireless. Not the cool. Not the calm. But I’ve got the lament part down. And the again and again and again part. And I excel at waiting for something to happen.
GET UP. GET MOVING. TIME TO RUN.
My lips form wwwwhip, wwwwhippoor, and there it is: whippoorwill. Soothing. I repeat it Again and again and again.
There’s magic in the formation of these letters.
Or I’m a circus monkey. [Read more…]
Scorecard is in. Grim.
May 23, 2015 by 22 Comments
SMWI*: Move
May 16, 2015 by 1 Comment
Notes: SMWI* = Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration. Photo: Lucy Nakolendo (corpo solido) via Life and Lover
Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
May 9, 2015 by 7 Comments
Paddleboarding in Glacier National Park, Montana by Thomas Haney
Source: Mashable – Nature Never Looked so good: U.S. Parks, in all their beauty. 2015 Award Winning photographs of U.S. Parks.
SMWI*: Hey! Yes, You. Move.
May 2, 2015 by 12 Comments
Notes:
- SMWI*: Saturday Morning Workout Inspiration
- Image source: wsj photo of the day: A woman runs past artwork of a large hand on a wall in central London. (Stefan Wermuth /Reuters)
SMWI*: Hold it Girl. Hold it.
April 18, 2015 by 21 Comments
Running. With Flaubert.
April 11, 2015 by 38 Comments
Let’s frame up the mood this morning.
I step on and off the scale. It could be worse. What’s of greater concern is the lack of disgust. Why not just paint a large white flag on the belly and add in large font: “Yes, I quit.” Middle aged man on the down side.
It’s 8:00 am. Zeke and I are laying in bed and I’m scanning the morning papers. It wasn’t so long ago that I would have run 10 miles by 8:30 am and be done with breakfast. Now, I’m just thinking about breakfast.
The ladies of the house are off to Yoga. Men don’t do Yoga. This man anyway. Too many sweaty bodies in close proximity. Lululemon pants exposing things I don’t need to see. Rubber mats. Rubber room. Claustrophobia. Get me out of here.
Earlier in the week, Rachel pointed out that I’m wearing a track suit (expandable waist) with increasing frequency. I brush her off but the hit is direct, the wound lingers.
Yes, I’ve become Abigail Thomas‘ large and growing Inaction Figure: Torpor. Languor. Stupor. [Read more…]
Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
April 11, 2015 by 11 Comments
Italian Lucio Santin enjoys the sunny spring weather at the English Garden in downtown Munich. (Source: Michaela Rehle @ wsj.com Photo of the Day 4/9/15)
SMWI*: Let’s go paddleboarding
April 4, 2015 by 15 Comments
Notes:
- “A paddleboarder floats by Lone Rock on Lake Powell near Big Water, Utah.”
- Source/Photographer: Justin Sullivan via wsj.com
- SMWI* = Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspirational
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