Beating the January Blues
By Jonny Stevens January is a month of cold weather, dark mornings, early nights, financial hangovers (more so during the current cost of living crisis), and New Year’s resolutions being broken. The result, some...
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Disability-Friendly Exercise Choices
Image via Pexels Guest Post Written by Justin Bennett If you have a disability, that doesn’t mean you can’t lead a healthy and active lifestyle. There are plenty of different ways to get exercise,...
La Jolla Cove Swim a True Jewel
We vacationed in Solana Beach the week before the La Jolla Cove Swim. I’d signed up to swim the 1-mile race more than a month earlier. The week started off sketchy with me attempting...
Dolphin Swimming Video
Fred Elling took this drone video of a group of bottlenose dolphins coming to visit me during a morning swim. If you would like to read my new memoir, Swimming with Dolphins, which includes...
The Environmentally Responsible Open Water Swimmer
I often swim in the Sea of Cortez, which is just steps away our San Carlos, Mexico condominium. I’m sometimes blessed to encounter a pod of bottlenose dolphins and they often interact with me....
Nature Speaks on this 5K Trail Race
My husband and I competed in a trail running race this morning in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. We drove around the coastline from San Carlos to Miramar and then deviated into a neighborhood that abuts...
5 Mile Trail Running Race in the Rain
On Sunday, September 26th, my husband and I competed in the Everyone Runs trail running race at Catalina State Park in northwest Tucson. I’ll be honest. I’m not a very good runner. I enjoy...
Cold Swim in a Greer Lake
During our nine-day vist to Greer, I went for three chilly swims in one of the three reservoirs in Greer (Tunnel). The first day I swam, there were huge puffy clouds in the sky....
My New Release – Fitter Than Ever at 50 and Beyond
Available on Amazon for 5.99 on Kindle (Free on Kindle Unlimited) or 14.99 in paperback Download the Spanish Kindle version Back Cover Description Fitness expert Susan Dawson-Cook, M.S. knows fitness and how the right balance of exercise, proper...
Transform Boring Workouts
If you’re growing bored with your daily workouts, you have options. You can start cross-training so that you work different workouts on different days. The benefit of this is that you are varying the...