Tag: sports
Olympic Pickleball
Now that the 2016 Summer Olympics have concluded, I’m reflecting on the entertaining sports that I had never seen played at a competitive level and thoroughly enjoyed watching during the games (shout out to rugby sevens and handball). So this peaked my interest about Pickleball. If badminton and canoe sprinting can make it into the… Read More ›
Summer Camp for Grown-Ups
My life has a couple threads running through it:   I am a camper. I am an event planner. I’ve spent my life camping; first as a kid with my family, then with groups of friends, then with my own family. I went on to go camping with my girlfriends, with my couple friends, with… Read More ›
What Olympic Sport Would You Choose?
The XXII Winter Olympic games start February 7, 2014, in Sochi, Russia, and U.S. athletes are now in nationwide trials to qualify for their events. It’s exciting to read the women’s curling team being called the “all-star” team, lead by Erika Brown, and are highly anticipated to bring home the gold. If I was an… Read More ›
Fitbit Zip update
Plenty of time for an update since April. The Fitbit Zip is holding up well. I like that it is bright green for me to find on my dresser. Yes, it did get lost amongst the clutter for awhile. But when you click on your profile and view your last 30 days it inspires you… Read More ›
Sierra Buttes hike along the Pacific Crest Trail
I will never do it again. NEVER. EVER. That’s what I told myself a couple years ago after I hiked to the lookout tower high upon the top of the Sierra Buttes. But here I was last week, grudgely agreeing to take our friends up, up, up to the top of the mountain, along the… Read More ›
Nine for IX
Shortly after Marion Bartoli won the Wimbledon tennis tournament on Saturday – arguably the most prestigious event in the sport – BBC Radio 5 commentator John Inverdale asked: Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little, ‘you’re never going to be a looker, you’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have… Read More ›
Upgrade your FitBit Zip
I just found out that the Fitbit Zip now has a mobile app for the Android. Hurray! My Christmas gift has expanded. The app has an easy to read Dashboard that lets you see your Steps and Food in a glance. It lets you enter into a Food log, Water log and keep track with… Read More ›
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