Finally. I say it's about damn time we fit our hamsters with little jackets that harness all the energy they're wasting when running incessantly in their little wheels. Also, we're harnessing the power of the wheel too, right? To harness hamster power, the scientists sewed electricity-generating thr...

Springhill Lake Elementary School Cleanup. Photo by Cindy Murray. Mark your calendar for Saturday morning, April 4 for the Potomac River Watershed Cleanup, organized by the Alice Ferguson Foundation.  The goal is to pick up as much trash as possible before spring rains wash it into the creeks, stre...

Working out delays effects of aging Many people think of stiff joints and slow movement as just normal parts of aging, but if people keep up healthy, active lifestyles as they age, they can ward off some of those health problems, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. People of any age can star...

I know I know I know people are sick of reading questions and whining about exercise and weight loss, but I'm really trying to be sensible and rational here, and your help would be so appreciated! Yes, here it is: I want to lose weight. Not so much for the bikini body, but I'd really like to be feel...

Help my legs. Is there any way to help my legs recover faster/better? Here's my current activity level. I run three days a week at ~8 minutes a mile that gives me a 10 mile a week total. I play basketball (full-court, man-to-man with ex-college players most of whom are younger than myself) once a we...

Life is so utterly hectic that I’ve barely had time to relax, let alone write any of the posts I was planning to this week. However, I’ve now really gotten into the swing of this office hours thing. (Of course, so are my students — I had two visitors last week and appointments with...

I was still having issues with my Nike+ sensor yesterday, but it was a little better at 6.25 miles recorded instead of my actual 7.3 mile route.  Ah well.  Not so devastating when I plugged my numbers into a pace calculator and realized that I managed to complete my long run in under 11 ...

The sun is shinning, the snow is almost all melted, and even the birds are coming back and gracing us with their lovely chirping every morning. It is getting warm enough to go out for a nice run...sans gloves! It gets me excited for all the upcoming activities: cycling, triathlons, half marathons, r...

I’m gonna need to work my way up to doing that again, truly. Every now and then, when we’ve had a really nice weather weekend in the midst of winter, a bunch of friends would go for a little walk in familiar or unfamiliar areas. The larger the group, the slower we’d make our way pl...

It’s been about 3 weeks that I’ve been doing Turbo Jam. At first it was hard to get coordinated. I kept falling and tripping over myself. Still, it was fun and I didn’t give up. I started mostly doing Learn & Burn where she introduces the moves or 20 Minute Jam, a great 20 minu...