What's Bob Gonna Do, Now That He Can't Drink?

Can I just say that losing weight is so HARD? Especially when you’re old like me. Young people, I urge you to take good care of your body while you’re young so that it’s not such a struggle when you get old.  Today at the gym I was on the dreaded StairMaster. I seriously have a love/hate relationship with that thing. I love what it has done for my cardiovascular system. I’m in way better shape now than when I was just running/jogging. When I started the StairMaster I was able to run for at least 40 minutes. I’m proud of that, but I was running on a treadmill that I could run on a slight decline. It was a good goal reached none the less. Now I can run on the treadmill at an incline for just as long, if not longer. Stairs don’t phase me and I’m just all around stronger. So, today I’m on the StairMaster and this really young skinny chick gets on the treadmill next to me and her friend comes up and is encouraging her to make her incline higher and asks how long she is running. She...

One of the things I love about Facebook is all the advice you can get from people. A memory post from 2013 came up from when I first started running, and the comments and advice that I got from my Facebook friends were so great. Back then I could only run for minutes at a time. I remember how my calves would scream in pain. I had to take ibuprofen sometimes before my workout, just to get through. I did the couch to 5k app, and that really helped me get started. It took me forever to get to the point where I could run for long periods of time without stopping.  Fast forward to today, and I can run for miles. I’m still slow, but I can run. A couple of months ago my husband and I ran on the road that we live on. We walk this road almost daily. It’s a gravel road. Since I’m a “city girl,” it has taken me some time to get used to the gravel. At first my ankles were week. I have been running for a few years now, but I always ran on cement, or a treadmill. This was completely different...