Meet Ellie. Ellie will be my partner for tomorrow’s KDF MiniMarathon. We will run 13.1 miles together (me pushing her in a stroller) from Downtown Louisville through the Portland neighborhood, down past Museum Row and Louisville Slugger. We will head south to historic Churchill Downs where we will get to run through the infield with […]
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How to Stretch Before Exercise
We are right in the middle of the Louisville Triple Crown. Every Spring since 1984, the city of Louisville hosts a series of road races. It starts with a 5K, followed by a 10K a few weeks later and ends up with a 10 miler. The race distances have varied over the last 33 years, […]
Shelbyville Triathlon #2 Race Report
Compared to most of my race reports, this one is going to be very brief. I like these small, reverse-order, sprint distance races because it is truly is a race. We all start at the same time and if you pay attention and are good at counting, you can find out your position at any […]
Why You Should Stop Using R.I.C.E. To Heal An Injury
I can’t remember the first time that I heard the acronym R.I.C.E. I’m sure it was at some point during elementary school when I suffered an injury. The prescription was simple. The ‘R’ stood for Rest, the ‘I’ for Ice, the ‘C’ for Compression and the ‘E’ for Elevate. I can tell you that my […]
What My Diet Looks Like
It’s been over two and a half years since I kept a food log, so I thought it would be a good idea to do it for a week to see what my typical diet looks like. I don’t follow any type of “official” diet, such as Paleo, Keto, Low-Carb, Vegetarian, Mediterranean, etc., so I […]
Water Fast 2.0
As humans, we’ve always heard, ‘You have to eat. You have to eat.’ The average person thinks that in order to stay alive, the body needs to have food not only every day, but every few hours. But in fact, that’s not true. If you think about it, throughout history, there have been lots of […]
The 5 Best Things You Can Eat Or Drink
Earlier this week I told you about the 5 things that I think are the worst to eat or drink. So to counter that, here are 5 things that I think you should try and eat as often as possible!#5 Best Thing You Can Eat: MUSHROOMS About 100 species of mushrooms are currently being studied […]
The 5 Worst Things You Can Eat or Drink
I was going to put the word “food” in the title for this post, but I quickly realized that the items I’m going to list are not actually food. They are all things that you can eat that are made in a factory or chemistry laboratory. While I’m not going to say that you should […]
How Dehydration Can Make You Fat and Sick
There is lots of conflicting information out there about how much water we need to drink each day. While I don’t actually keep track, I would guess that I drink somewhere between 90 and 100 ounces of water a day. I have a 24-ounce bottle that I drink from while at work and I probably […]
What Changed About Food in 2016?
I wrote a post back in July about the changes that are coming to the food labels. Although the changes are required to be in place until July 2018, the official change happened in 2016. You can read the details on that here. Other than the food labels, there were some other changes in 2016 to […]