Food, Fitness, Finance and Fun

Food

How I Started Eating Mostly Raw Foods

I have been saying for the past 5 years I have been wanting to eat more raw. If you have been reading my blog posts over the past 3 years, you will see me intermittently post how I started “Raw Monday” or “Raw Wednesday”, but I never maintain it for more than a few months. In January, as I was setting my 2017 goals and for the 3rd year in a row, I wrote down "Eat more raw". As soon as I … [Read More...]

Food For Thought

God damn food! It's such a blessing and such a curse. A necessary evil that brings so much joy! I think about food WAY more than I want to. It's a habit I have had for over 30 years. I used to love thinking about food all the time. Planning what I would eat, calculating the exact amount of working out I needed to do in order to eat whatever I wanted, coming up with creative ways to trick my … [Read More...]

Fitness

Race Report: 2017 Ironman Boulder

So two days after I raced Ironman Boulder, I sat down to do my race report. In my head I was just going to give some details about my race, with extra on race day nutrition (because that’s what I was getting the most questions about from my clients, friends, and fellow tri-geeks). As I started my video, I realized there was so much more to this race than just a swim, bike, and run for me. This … [Read More...]

How I PRd my Half Marathon

Last weekend I ran my 83rd half marathon. I ran my first one in 2001 when I decided to train for my first ironman. At that time I was 29 years old and the longest I had ever run was a 10K…once! And BTW…at that time (and for the following 10 years) I pretty much hated running. I did it because I liked triathlon and if I wanted to be competitive in my age group, I had to run. So I did. People … [Read More...]

Finance

Dave Ramsey Baby Step 6: Pay Off Your House

Man! If only I learned how to handle my finances 30 years ago instead of 10, I would be in a much better place in my life. As it happened, there was no class in school on personal finances, and growing up poor taught me that as soon as you get money, spend it on something you want because you may never have that chance again. All this non-education growing up helped me go into debt often, buy … [Read More...]

Dave Ramsey Baby Step 3…DONEZO!!!

HOLY EMERGENCY FUND! I never thought we would get past Baby Step 3. I am talking about Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps to Financial Success. We have been following Dave Ramsey’s plan loosely for about 8 years now but pretty seriously for about 3. Baby Step 3 is to have a fully funded emergency fund. Fully funded means 3-6 months of expenses set aside in case of an emergency. My original goal was to … [Read More...]

Fun

How to Get Through a Hard Day

Today I had a hard day. I woke up anxious and overwhelmed after about 10 weeks of moving through life at 100% on hardly any sleep, living off of adrenaline and Shakeology. I have been too tired to focus on my businesses and making money, which in turn has left me dipping into my savings the past few weeks to live. This has created anxiety, which makes me eat more, which makes me feel sluggish … [Read More...]

Suck It Cosmo!

So today in my mailbox was an issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine. It was put in my mailbox by mistake as it had a neighbors name/address on the label. The cover was AMAZING and completely started to suck me in! Not only was it hot pink, there was a super sexy bad ass chick on the cover (Ruby Rose), the #1 way to tell if he is into you, “hot-body secrets”, and their biggest sex Q&A EVER!!! So … [Read More...]