While I’ve ridden some kind of bike since I was a preschooler, I’ve never considered myself a “good” cyclist. Don’t get me wrong, I tend to hang in the middle of the pack on group rides, but I’m not an uber-confident cyclist. I do alright on flats, but fade out on hills. Learning how to [...]
Love Your Body
February 9, 2012 By 12 Comments
Love it or hate it, it’s nearly Valentine’s Day again ladies – a time of year when everybody wants to talk about love. Loving our husbands, kids, friends…but what about ourselves? And more specifically, our bodies? It seems as though a lot of marketing nowadays is geared towards how to improve our bodies. While the [...]
Count It Out
January 23, 2012 By 6 Comments
As a military wife, mother, athlete and cancer survivor, I live by numbers. I am always counting. Even as a child, I was always counting. I liked to count; skip counting, rote counting, counting in different languages, whatever. I appreciate the orderliness of numbers and how it engages my brain while I’m doing other things. [...]
The Power of Your Inner Voice
January 5, 2012 By 10 Comments
Two weeks ago I had surgery on my hip to address an injury that I have had since July. I had been looking so forward to finally getting it done and being able to get on with things that I think I forgot to consider one small thing—REHAB. It’s been a while since I’ve had [...]
Turn Resolutions into Possibilities
December 29, 2011 By 7 Comments
As the New Year approaches and everyone looks at their personal version of “out with the old and in with the new” we naturally begin to consider resolutions. I can’t explain the craving for change at this time of the year, but concepts like Father Time being replaced with the New Year’s baby are symbolic [...]
Honoring Our 2011 Athletes
December 19, 2011 By 127 Comments
As another year sprints toward the finish line and we gear up to announce the 2012 sponsored athletes in mid-January, we had to hit the brakes and pause for a tribute to our 2011 sponsored athletes… Amy Becker Williams, Beth Risdon, Harriet Anderson, Jessica Bellofatto, Kristen Ulmer, Melissa Bowman Li, Michelle Sommers, Okiima Pickett, Tina [...]
Healthy Holidaze: 5 Simple Tips
December 16, 2011 By 3 Comments
Wouldn’t it be nice to start 2012 feeling great? The holidays are a time for friends, family, food and fun. Of course, we love all these things, but sometimes the things we love are also what drive us crazy! The holiday parties, social obligations and endless parade of irresistible goodies that the holidays bring leave [...]
There’s a Better Path
December 14, 2011 By 12 Comments
This may surprise you, but discipline, perseverance, setting an intention, drive, the will; all those celebrated states usually taught by sports coaches, are completely outdated. Same with goal setting. Here’s why. I remember having to perform a difficult ski photo shoot while still recovering from an injury. I wanted to maintain status and sponsors so [...]
Healing Journey
December 9, 2011 By 3 Comments
Even though December just started, I’m beginning to feel it is going to be gone in the blink of an eye and before I know it, it will be time to embark on a new year setting new objectives in motion. For me, my 2012 goal is to make the U.S. adaptive rowing team and [...]
Heart Health
December 7, 2011 By 10 Comments
I began thinking about this Chi entry several weeks ago while sitting in the Cardiac Critical Care Unit in Albuquerque after my mother-in-law’s unexpected, emergency triple bypass surgery. This particular weekend I was supposed to be signing my name in the log at the top of another Colorado 14er with my sister-in-law, Tammy, a celebration [...]
