Spring Skiing Style

April 1, 2015

It’s April 1st but guess what, yesterday in NYC it snowed a bit. When will it end!? The one upside of snow in March and April is Spring skiing! A couple of weeks back I was in Utah and it was my first opportunity to ski in the sunshine. I’m used to being freezing with as many layers as I…

Grocery Shopping Made Easy: Instacart

March 31, 2015

I have a new obsession: Instacart. It’s like a personal grocery shopping service, you can pick out your groceries from your favorite local store and someone else does all the work to get the groceries to your door. What makes this different from similar services like Fresh Direct is that you are doing the shopping from your local stores. I do…

Ironman Training: 12 Weeks Until Race Weekend Check-In

March 30, 2015

Up until this point I’ve been referencing my Ironman 70.3 training scheduling but I wouldn’t say I’m living by it…or even following it closely at all. My intentions are good, I promise. But I’m also not into the idea of totally abandoning my social life for a race. Ok let’s be real, it’s not even my social life, it’s just…

24 Hours in LA

March 26, 2015

I LOVE traveling but this guy has been making it very bittersweet.Last weekend I headed to San Jose for a work event that involved me wearing a prom dress:I don’t know anyone in the San Jose area but I do know a ton of people in LA so I hopped on a Saturday night post-event flight to spend 24 hours…

Win Passes to Orangetheory NYC!

March 25, 2015

I recently reviewed Orangetheory Fitness NYC and was a huge fan (full review here) so I’m working with the folks at OTF to give YOU a chance to try it for free! I’m giving away 6 passes, 3 for you and 3 for a friend to visit the OTF NYC studio, plus a swag bag full of OTF gear.To enter,…

Utah Vacation Part III: Food & Town

While in Utah we kept to a solid eating schedule: hearty breakfast, light snacks, post-skiing treats followed by a delicious dinner. Eating on the mountain can get pricey but by combining cooking with eating out we didn’t go too overboard.Each morning we had coffee, and cooked eggs with turkey sausage then grabbed our granola bars and headed to the mountain. Because…

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