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Week 6 | 12 Week Fitness Challenge

After re-reading “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, I decided to embark on a 12 week fitness challenge to get back into shape after childbirth. Here’s how week 6 panned out.

Week 6 Workout PlanRun: 1.25 mi run x 1, 1.5 mi run x 2Stationary bike: x 3Plank: Every dayWalking: Every dayWeek 6 WorkoutsMonday: Walk, Plank (80 sec), Bike (29 min), Run (3 mi)Tuesday: Walk, Plank (80 sec), Bike (20 min), Run (3.2 mi)Wednesday: Walk, Plank (8...

Reflecting on 2022

I don’t think I’ve written one of these reflection posts in years. Not much has happened in 2022, since I haven’t left the state, but the few things that did happen were pretty monumental. I don’t have much time where I have access to both hands and a computer these days, so this is going to be nice and short.

In 2022 I…Had a baby and survived the first 4 months.Wrote and published my first book. It’s even on Amazon!!!! I finished my manuscript 1 month before I gave birth.Upd...

Week 5 | 12 Week Fitness Challenge

After re-reading “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, I decided to embark on a 12 week fitness challenge to get back into shape after childbirth. Here’s how week 5 panned out.

Week 5 Workout PlanRun: 1 mi run x 1, 1.25 mi run x 2Stationary bike: x 3Plank: Every dayWalking: Every dayWeek 5 WorkoutsMonday: Walk, Plank (70 sec), Bike (25 min), Run (2 mi)Tuesday: Walk, Plank (70 sec), Bike (25 min), Run (2 mi)Wednesday: Walk, Plank (70 se...

Week 4 | 12 Week Fitness Challenge

After re-reading “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, I decided to embark on a 12 week fitness challenge to get back into shape after childbirth. Here’s how week 4 panned out.

Week 4 Workout PlanRun: 0.75mi run x 1, 1mi run x 2Stationary bike: x 3Plank: Every dayWalking: Every dayWeek 4 WorkoutsMonday: Walk, Plank (60 sec), Bike (20 min), Run (1.5 mi)Tuesday: Walk, Plank (60 sec), Bike (20 min), Run (1.5 mi)Wednesday: Walk, Plank (60 ...

Week 3 | 12 Week Fitness Challenge

After re-reading “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, I decided to embark on a 12 week fitness challenge to get back into shape after childbirth. Here’s how week 3 panned out.

Week 3 Workout PlanRun: 0.5mi run x 1, 0.75mi run x 2Stationary bike: x 3Plank: Every dayWalking: Every dayWeek 3 WorkoutsMonday: Walk, Plank (40 sec), Bike (15 min), Run (1 mi)Tuesday: Walk, Plank (40 sec), Bike (20 min), Run (1 mi)Wednesday: Walk, Plank (50 se...

Lost and Found: My “words” after brain surgery

I have two birthdays. The first is the day my mother painstakingly gave birth to me 33 years ago. The second is the day my neurosurgeon gave me a second chance at life with his surgical knife, 11 years ago.

The brain surgery was a success for all intents and purposes. My vascular tumor was gone from my brain (huzzah!), I didn’t have a seizure during or after surgery (woo hoo!), and I woke up from anesthesia still able to speak both Japanese and English (yay!). Best of all, in the past 11 yea...

Week 2 | 12 Week Fitness Challenge

After re-reading “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, I decided to embark on a 12 week fitness challenge to get back into shape after childbirth. Here’s how week 2 panned out.

Week 2 Workout PlanRun: 0.5mi run x 2Stationary bike: x 3Plank: Every dayWalking: Every dayWeek 2 WorkoutsMonday: Walk, Plank (30 sec), Bike (15 min), Run (0.5 mi)Tuesday: Walk, Plank (30 sec), Bike (15 min), Run (0.5 mi)Wednesday: Walk, Plank (30 sec)Thursd...

Week 1 | 12 Week Fitness Challenge

After re-reading “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, I decided to embark on a 12 week fitness challenge to get back into shape after childbirth. Here’s how week 1 panned out.

Week 1 Workout Plan

My goal of this “12 week year” is to run 3 miles in one run. To achieve this, I made a weekly plan.

Run: 0.25 mi run x 2Stationary bike: x 3Plank: Every dayWalk: Every dayWeek 1 WorkoutsMonday: Walk, Plank (20 sec)Tuesday: Walk, Plank (20 sec),...

12 Week Fitness Challenge

I don’t have much “free time” these days. For those of you who may not know, I have a 3 month old who demands I hold them all day. Since I can’t sit down to read a book, I’ve been spending my “commute” driving to my parents’ house or doctors’ appointments re-reading “The 12 Week Year.”

The 12 Week Year

A traditional “year” of 52 weeks, or 12 months, is too long. Twelve weeks, on the other hand, is short enough to feel like continuously moving towards a goal for that period is possible, bu...

Dipping toes into film photography with Ilford Sprite 35-II

There’s a certain romance with film photography. We are blessed with better and better technology that allows us to take extremely precise and vivid digital photographs with DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, and even smartphone cameras. I’m personally a fan of Google Pixel cameras and the Sony α (Alpha) mirrorless camera series. But maybe precisely because you can essentially control every part of the process with technology, there’s always been a longing for the limitations of simple film cameras that...