WODs & Well-Being

October 20, 2012 Today I participated in a 5K Hunger Run for Loaves and Fishes in Devens Ma. Loaves and Fishes provides food and temporary support to residents of Ayer, Devens, Groton, Harvard, Littleton and Shirley MA. My company has become more and more aware of things we can do within the community to donate our time, money or services to help those in need and this is one of the organizations we have hooked up with. Last year at Thanksgiving I was able to volunteer to help out at the food pantry and work the day they had the doors open for Thanksgiving pickup. This year I will be away for that, but I was thrilled when my boss asked who wanted to participate in the 5K to raise money for the food pantry!! As we all lined up at the starting line, Patricia (Patty) Stern spoke over the intercom reminding us all who and what we were raising  money for. She reminded us that the people who use the pantry could be any one of us, or any one of the people that we know in our lives. Th...

May 12, 2012 Set a goal... go after it! Every day is a great day for a challenge and today was no different. Hubs and I both too active rest days on the day CFW posted "Bradshaw" as the workout. We agreed that this was one challenge that we could not resist. It was going to be hard, it was going to be a lot of work, it was going to be tiring, but we knew how much satisfaction we will have when we complete it. I gave up my "negativity" so I wasnt even in the "this is going to suck" mindset. I was in the "I am going to kick this workouts ASS mindset" when I got up this morning. I was pumped and ready to go when I got to the gym! Couldnt wait to face the WOD head on. I warmed up and was very happy that it seemed to be a "double under day" and what I mean by that is... I could actually string them together. M has been remarkable with helping me with these week after week reminding me to relax, jump higher, use less arm... whateve...