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Author: Lyssa

Title IX at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Saturday night, I attended Aspen Ideas Festival panel The Promise of Play/Women & Girls: You Go, Girl! How Title IX Galvanized Play for Women Key players: Beth A. Brooke, Ernst & Young global vice chair of strategy, communications and regulatory affairs, ranked among Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, former Purdue basketball player…

And then I ran a half marathon

… and I have no idea why anyone puts themselves through it! I made the 13.1 miles (or 13.5, say some people with GPS) of the Aspen Valley Half Marathon in just over 2 hours, keeping an 8:30 pace for the first three miles, dropping to a 9 to 9:30-minute pace the next nine, and…

Austin: Free P. Terry’s Shirt!

Burgers: free-range, grass-fed, delicious Veggie-burgers: veggie, delicious Best: a mixed double with 1 meat patty and 1 veggie patty, wrapped in lettuce Their 5th birthday is tomorrow, so starting at 10:30am they are giving away 1,000 free tees!! Get ’em while they’re hot, and grab a mixed double while you’re at it. 😀

Around the Fitness Horn

I thought I’d do a link love round up style posting more often, but it looks like I haven’t … well anyway, enjoy this week’s edition, I don’t know when the next will be 🙂 10 Questions with One of the World’s Top Special Forces Trainers [Fitness Black Book] Train Like Bosley [CrossFit Verve] 11…

TACFIT Commando

I downloaded a TACFIT workout and watched a video of the Israeli Special Forces trainer Coach Scott Sonnon. They say: Learn Previously Non-Disclosed Methods that Navy SEALS, Marines and Real-Life Secret Agents Are Using Right Now to Chisel Rock Hard Bodies and Maintain Mission Readiness — Anytime, Anywhere, With Absolutely No Equipment The entire TACFIT…

Austin: AYC Fave Awards Launch Party Tonight

Austin Young Chamber Launches The AYC’s FAVE Awards, the first ever AYC’s Favorite Austin Ventures & Enterprises (FAVE) Awards, an awards gala honoring Austin area businesses that cater to young professionals, on Friday, November 5 at the Driskill Hotel. To kick off this new awards gala, AYC will host a launch party today, Thursday July…

Recap of Social Media & Journalism Panel

Aspen Ideas Festival Panel: Living Digitally: Is Social Media Transforming Journalism? Um, duh? Here are the key players: With Moderator Charlie Firestone, executive director of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, we have: Vivian Schiller, current President and CEO of NPR, former SVP of The New York Times Company and General Manager of NYTimes.com,…

All-Around Fitness

Achieving milestones! I preach all the time about how much I love King Yoga, but something truly magical happened there yesterday (besides the fact that I later learned I was yoga-ing in the same room as Gretchen Bleiler had earlier … I wear her Oakley pants to ski!) … in my years of doing Bikram…

Aspen: Aspen Valley Half Marathon [updated with humor]

Things I signed up for today: the Aspen Valley Half Marathon. Things I haven’t trained for: the Aspen Valley Half Marathon. Things I am nonetheless excited about? You got it. The race is almost all downhill, on easy gravel terrain, and it’s going to be a gorgeous, cool Saturday morning (at the ungodly hour of…

So You Think You’re An Elite Athlete?

That’s right, CrossFitters and other people who think they are awesomely fit … there’s a new reality show called I Wanna Be a World Class Athlete! and they’re casting this summer. Sure, you’ll have to trek to get to an audition, but imagine the possibilities! They’re transforming individual competitive and recreational sports players into World…