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Low-key 35-min walk around my neighborhood with a friend and her baby. Then, a 10 min ab workout from OnDemand. In all, 45 min, 247 calories, average HR 128, TE 2.7. Great to exercise with a friend! Tomorrow will have to be a harder workout, though. // //

Running/walking ~50 min in my neighborhood. warm up 5 min run 10 min, walk 2 min, run 10 min, walk 3 min, run 10 min cool down just under 10 min, because I stopped to pull up some morning glories to transplant into my yard. 203 calories, average HR 155, TE 3.1 I was running [...]

To mix it up a bit, I did a workout from OnDemand’s Fitness TV. (If you have OnDemand and haven’t checked this out, there are TONS of workouts on there! And new stuff is added all the time so there is no reason to get bored. Really cool.) The one I did today was called [...]

While on my first backpacking trip ever, in the fall of 2001, I had an epiphany about my personal fitness. Two girl friends and I had left our overnight camp and were attempting to hike to a nearby waterfall. We lost the trail and ended up scrambling on our hands and knees up a steep [...]