Coach believes in you
It’s always a surprise when I RX the wod. (“I’m doing it??”)
Rx’ing the WOD
Tag: fitness
Hobbits and Crossfit Athletes are much alike
Don’t come between a Crossfit Hobbit and his food
…Or any athlete for that matter.
Running in Winter
Pick it all up on the way back
How do runners in snowy winter climates handle it? The cold is lovely, 10/10 would enjoy again, but you do have to rug up. And when you go running, of course you sweat. So either you wear minimal clothes and trust yourself to heat up on the way, or you start out all snuggly and later strip it off.
??
Don’t know. But good on you for getting out there in the snow.
Overconfidence at the gym
When you’re pasty in summer but trying to stay fit
Keep to the shadows, stay in the shade!
When you’re bone-pale and pasty, you have a love-hate relationship with summer. You either have to keep to the shade at all times, making strategic dashes from one dappled area to the next, or you have to dip yourself in a vat of sunscreen.
Going for a jog around the block also becomes an exercise in strategy: which area affords the most shade? Should you get up at 6am to avoid the sun? Or should you cover every inch of skin?
Nasty sun.
New Unit of Measurement
Pizza is a new unit of measurement
Today you run 3 slices of pizza. Tomorrow you walk a cupcake. This is a new unit of measurement for running that is a simpler alternative to calorie tracking.
I’m not saying I’m right, but I’m right.
Always Cake
Cake at all times of the day
There’s never a wrong time to eat cake. Hungry? Eat cake. Bored? Eat cake. Have cake? Eat cake.
Don’t Stop Until You Reach Your Goals
Reach your goals…
Whether it’s fitness or pizza. Mostly pizza. Entirely pizza.
Stages of Running
Stages of Running: the emotional rollercoaster
“Gonna go for a run, yeah. Gonna ace this no sweat.”
“OH WHY? *huff puff* WHYYYYY??”
“I DID IT! I’m so fit.”
These are the three stages of running one tends to go through. Arrogance plunging into despair, and euphoria when it’s all done. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
Let them eat cake
To eat cake, or not to eat cake…
From humble bready beginnings to towering monstrosities of confection, we love cake.
“Let them eat cake!”– Marie Antoinette
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
The word ‘cake’ comes from Scandinavia: in Swedish, ‘kaka’; in Danish, ‘kage’.
Back in the old days, cake used to mean a small round roll^. It was nothing like the delicious sugary treat we gobble down today. When refined sugar became mainstream, and icing was invented (in the 17th century), the modern-day cake was born.
Quotes about cake
Accused of uttering this callous exclamation, Marie Antoinette did not, in fact, say “Let them eat cake.” This quote first appeared in Jean-Jacques Rosseau’s ‘Confessions’, attributed to a ‘Great Princess’ who was actually fictional^. His book was written in 1762 when Marie Antoinette was 9 years old at the time.
Ridiculous. Of course you can. This oft-misquoted line should read: “A man cannot have his cake and eat his cake.” first written in a letter from Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, to Thomas Cromwell in 1538^.