I coached at CFNE until about a year or so after Harley Love was born. She’ll be 5 in a couple of months; so, needless to say, I knew I had a lot of relearning to do to catch up to the standard of coaching that CFNE now holds for the entire staff. We had good coaches back then, but things were different. Most of us on staff were primarily competitors at the Games level,…
I’ve intentionally been holding myself back from writing this post to allow a fair enough amount of time to pass for me to honestly be able to say this: “I truly love coaching.” This week completes two full weeks of me coaching the 11:30 class at CFNE, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have any hesitations. I think most stay at home parents of young children are nervous about going back to…
One of the nicest, happiest drop-in visitors at CFNE, Carlos, came up to me yesterday and asked me if I would share with him 5 things that I love most about Ben. When I asked him why, he told me he wanted to know how to have a relationship with his wife that would make her want to write about him the way I write about Ben. I almost cried as it was maybe the…
There are things in life that warrant waiting for you to be “ready” for: deciding to get married, investing your money in something that you don’t have the money for yet, and popping a pimple that isn’t quite ready for it yet. Consequently, there are things in life that you just need to do, even if you’re not “ready” for them: signing up for a nutrition challenge, taking your first step into a CrossFit gym,…
Whenever we go away with this group of couples friends of ours, I spend a lot of time thinking about how grateful I am to have found these specific people, and that they want to spend as much time with Ben and I as we do with them. They really are so special, each one of them, for different reasons. They’re somehow all so different, yet so similar in a million ways. Some of them…
We had quite the morning yesterday. Just a classic run of me telling Bode, in particular, to get dressed 9 or 10 times, him totally ignoring me and doing whatever he wants to, and me trying every angle from calm and patient to angry and yelling. This, unfortunately, ended up with Bode looking at me with his little bulldog puppy dog face saying, “Well, you didn’t have to yell.” And, me breaking down into a…
I hate admitting to this, but I think I’m a lot less non-judgmental than I would like to think I am. I think there are things that are easier to be open-minded about than others: different senses of style and fashion, peoples’ attitude about being competitive, what people consider a ‘vacation’, and whether someone likes doing yoga or not. Then, there are other things that I am horrified to admit that I have trouble accepting…
The older I get, the more I am reminded of the importance of living a life of gratitude. And, the more I am reminded of it’s importance, the more I consciously work on using that as the focal point of my every day. And, the more I focus on that guiding my perspective, the more it becomes my default way of seeing the world and my experiences in it. But, what I think I need…
Ben and I like to train 6 days a week, and take one weekend day off to completely spend time with the family. Sometimes that’s our ski day, sometimes we’re on the road for Maya’s game, and sometimes…I hate admitting to this…we park our sorry, lazy butts on the couches in our living room in front of the fire and don’t leave. The last couple Sundays, Ben and I have snuck into the gym to…
The Open is one of those events that makes us all a little crazy. I’m not even registered for the Open, and it’s managing to somehow still make me crazy. While it’s a wonderful platform that provides that little something extra that is all some people need to get their first double-under or PR their max squat clean. For others, it’s like a tornado that, week after week, sweeps us up into it having us…