Fitness

Run Tulsa, Run!

October 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Running down the middle of Boston Avenue, flanked by tall buildings and the gathered crowd, hearing your name called over the speaker—it’s a feeling you can’t get any other way. [...]

Pro Strategies for Drinking More Water

May 9, 2016 // 3 Comments

You already know water is good for you, that it’s got plenty of health benefits, and that you should be drinking more of it and less of other drinks with sugar in them. You don’t need me to tell you all of that, so I’m not going to. [...]

Being Gracious with Yourself

April 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

For most of us, the journey toward improved health and fitness—toward weight loss—is slow, the path rocky, winding, and steep. What happens when we mess up, when we get off course? [...]

More Than a Race

November 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

My feelings on finishing that race were not what I expected. The freezing weather demanded a heightened sense of focus on my basic physical needs: Stay warm. Find food. [...]

The Sustainable Struggle

November 2, 2015 // 3 Comments

We don’t have multiple hours a day to work out, or a personal chef to get our brown rice and chicken breast on the table every three hours. If the farthest you’ve ever run in one go is three miles, you wouldn’t go out tomorrow and try to run a marathon. Why take that sort of approach to weight loss, to health and fitness? [...]