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    Run on

    Three years after starting my first beginning running program I’m starting a couch-to-5k program anew for a third time. I successfully completed the other two, but I have yet to…

    Posted on October 2, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in food and drink health and exercise home

    Weekend of quietude

    I did something yesterday that made me unwind so utterly and completely and purge so much tension that I felt the kind of exhausted you feel only after you’ve cried…

    Posted on September 23, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in childhood health and exercise life

    Lap swimming

    I’ve been spending a lot more time swimming laps these past two months because I’m really, really trying to actually stay in shape consistently and it’s just too dang hot…

    Posted on July 28, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise love and relationships marriage personal experience

    Surviving and then some

    I did it. I not only survived another triathlon, but I also improved on last year’s finish — which was the goal I mentioned a month or two ago, although…

    Posted on April 18, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience

    Pre-triathlon pep talk

    ‘Oh, maybe I should register for the triathlon,’ I said absentmindedly on Sunday, just a week away from the race. ‘You haven’t registered yet??’ The Modern Love Machine said. I…

    Posted on April 15, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in basketball books and magazines employment health and exercise personal experience science and nature sports

    And that’s a good thing

    Thanks, everyone, for humoring me on that last post. I’m really excited to read your blogs (and tweets), and it kind of helped feed my urge to blog even more….

    Posted on April 8, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in budgeting and finance health and exercise

    What would you do?

    I called my dentist’s office at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, my first day off in over a week, to schedule the six-month checkup I’d been putting off for lack of…

    Posted on March 11, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience

    Be prepared

    In an effort to keep up my motivation for exercise, I’ve decided to train for the same sprint triathlon that I did last spring. This one, ie the one where…

    Posted on February 25, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience

    Back on the chain gang

    The Modern Love Machine had an excellent suggestion at the beginning of the year to keep us both motivated to exercise more. He suggested we do some kind of exercise…

    Posted on February 16, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience

    Recommitting to the run

    About two and a half years ago (wait, timeout, I just realized I’ve been blogging under The Modern Gal nom de plume for three years and some change now, holy…

    Posted on December 2, 2010 by themoderngal
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