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Horses and Dogs and Sports, Oh My!

Rachel Toor — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:59:40 +0000

When you participate in a niche sport, you can expect to unearth a small cadre of hardcore participants. Because more is sometimes better, especially when it comes to competition, and because enthusiasm likes to spread, people involved in fringier endeavors tend to proselytize, to seek to bring new members into their fold. Unlike with professional [...]

Becoming a Surfer Girl

Jill Robinson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:18:20 +0000

Lying on my chunky blue surfboard, I craned my neck back to the right to see a wave growing higher and closer to where I was floating in the shallow water. “See that one?” asked my surf instructor, Nicole Pratt. “You’re going to catch it.” On my first day surfing in Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit at [...]

When Life Gives You Lemons…

Gen Matchette — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:30:22 +0000

While I’ve ridden some kind of bike since I was a preschooler, I’ve never considered myself a “good” cyclist. Don’t get me wrong, I tend to hang in the middle of the pack on group rides, but I’m not an uber-confident cyclist. I do alright on flats, but fade out on hills. Learning how to [...]

The Road

Jennifer Turner — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:45:52 +0000

I am so thrilled to be an Athleta Sponsored Athlete this year! My delight at receiving this improbable honor and being included among such amazing women is only surpassed by my excitement for training women from my Upper East Side New York store to participate in the More+Fitness Women’s Half Marathon this April. I could [...]

Partner Yoga

Hannah Franco — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:41 +0000

Ok, so you got yoga down, you can hang with being present, managing your emotions, flailing limbs, dripping sweat etc… but it’s a whole different thing when you add another person into the equation — someone else’s sweat, limbs, and ideas about how things should work. Dealing with yourself is one thing; adding the element [...]

Steep & Deep

Dina Mishev — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:01:13 +0000

A confession: I live in Jackson, Wyoming and am not an awesome skier. I am far from awesome, in fact. Not really starting to ski until moving here at the ripe age of 21, then skiing in the backcountry 99% of the time — where you have to first climb up something before you can [...]

Love Your Body

Erica Lineberry — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:32:02 +0000

Love it or hate it, it’s nearly Valentine’s Day again ladies – a time of year when everybody wants to talk about love. Loving our husbands, kids, friends…but what about ourselves? And more specifically, our bodies? It seems as though a lot of marketing nowadays is geared towards how to improve our bodies. While the [...]

Operation: Bali Body

Melanie Webb — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:30:31 +0000

I recently received an offer I could not refuse to visit Amankila and Amandari in Bali, Indonesia. I have only seven days to go before my first tropical luxury vacation! As I start to pull out the bikini’s I haven’t worn since summer it hits me – only seven days to go until Bali! Gasp. [...]

Early Morning Runs

Molly Barker — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:34:16 +0000

I am SO a morning person. One day last week, while driving my children to a doctor’s appointment I had conveniently (for me anyway) scheduled at 7:45 a.m., my son commented out of the blue, half-dozing, half awake. “I just don’t know why you do that.” Hank is in tenth grade. “I just don’t know [...]

The “Art” of the Martial Arts

Anita Ronzone — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:44:13 +0000

When I started in the martial arts, over six years ago now, I did it to have fun with my (then) four year-old son. I’ve always been an athletic person, but the martial arts was not something I ever really considered doing. Growing up in a traditional Asian-American household, it was uncommon for girls to [...]