Gayle

Pushmi-Pullyu (The Importance of a Training Partner)

2013/04/08 Gayle 1

I love animals. It is a fact known by virtually everyone I meet (perhaps it’s the over abundance of dog hair on my clothing that gives me away – for the record I try to limit it but it just keeps coming back). So it probably comes as no surprise I loved the character of Doctor Dolittle in a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting and later in movies. In the book, as in the original movie, there are many unusual animals. One in particular always caught my attention – The pushmi-pullyu (pronounced “push-me—pull-you”) a “gazelle-unicorn cross” which has two heads (one of each) at opposite ends of its body. I can imagine nothing that quite demonstrates the true difficulties of cooperation more than the concept of two heads The rest of the story

New Adventure (Marathon) Needs New Toys

2013/04/05 Gayle 0

A few weeks ago I received an email notification from Klout. The notification offered to give me a klout perk. Now, I have gotten these notifications before and mostly ignored them. However, this perk was for something that very much interested me – A Sony Walkman W! Now, don’t get me wrong I love my iPod. I love the versatility of that little 8gb music machine – it works in my car, it works to feed the music in my house and it’s portable. But the thing it doesn’t do well is workout with me. I am forever untangling wires. I position them and reposition them. Invariably during some position of my workout I drop the ipod and scramble to grab it before it hits The rest of the story

Who You Are Is What You Do Everyday

2013/04/02 Gayle 1

The Difference between Who You Are and Who You Want to be is What You Do. I stumbled upon this quote recently. I’m not exactly sure where or from whom. It resonated with me. It resonated so much that I wrote it on my blotter – I wanted to keep it close – to be reminded. As I am training for what I am calling my EPIC QUEST (walking a marathon – that’s 26.2 miles folks), I have a certain amount of solitary walking time. Time to think. Time to ponder. On one of those recent walks I decided I needed to add a word to the quote. I needed to add the word EVERYDAY. The one thing I am learning from The rest of the story

I Am the Sheep and I Need to be Fed

2013/03/04 Gayle 2

I recently saw a graphic about ‘The Church’ and the role of that entity for feeding its parishioners. This is the graphic which was posted to facebook: Now, I understand the graphic. I’m not even sure I disagree with the sentiment it really expresses. However, there is something about it that just didn’t quite sit right with me. Then this past Friday it all became clear to me. On Friday I woke up grumpy! My grumpy quickly escalated to down right mean. I was so irritated even I was having trouble being around me. Eventually Jenn says ‘you need protein’ – Then that little light bulb over my head went off! I NEEDED protein. You see, I started a new diet and The rest of the story

Walking Into A New Habit

2013/02/25 Gayle 1

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC) Sometimes it feels like every step I take, every plan I make just turns to poop before I can accomplish much. Last year, I made great and elaborate plans to walk the Disney Marathon the weekend of my 50th birthday; except I never actually took the steps necessary to complete the journey. When January rolled around, I was sad because I wasn’t walking in Disney but I knew there was no one to blame but Gayle Tabor. However, I rallied to walk a 50k in the month of January (the month of my birthday). What I noticed, as I was dedicated to and completing The rest of the story