Ericka's Blog

Reflections and conversations on life

FABLETICS & An Awesome Challenge!

PSST: Did you catch my first Monday Workout Link Karma yesterday? The post was up late and life is s little hectic so promotion was hard to do but please check it out, add your link and check back next Monday! ...

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The Toddler Style Workout

Not a real workout you say? Think again! So since I'm starting physical therapy this week, I've still been taking it easy on the workouts until I hear more from them about what is okay. I've been stretching regularly each day, especially hips, hamstrings and lower...

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We Won Twitter! — And MUST-SEE Video This Week!

**I'm just gonna brag for ONE second! I'm really excited because this week, we won a "Tweetie Trophy" from the TwitterDC awards -- and well, what can I say? I pretty much am the Twitter account so I was really excited to receive the award! Yay! Unfortunately, I was...

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Becoming a Runner: 10 Points of Guidance

The two most popular questions I get from this blog are these: What kind of running/workout shoes do you recommend? How do I get started as a runner? A friend asked me the latter last week and I decided I should put together a post on just that. It makes me...

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Sickness & Perspective

So...I'm on day 2 of being extremely ill. I've had the stomach flu every few years over the course of my life but it's never lasted more than 24 hours. When I woke up this morning still feeling as sick as day 1, I was not happy. I feel weak and can barely stand up...

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This Was My Kind of Weekend

This was one of my favorite kinds of weekends -- not too busy but still full of fun stuff that I was looking forward too. Friday night I was too exhausted to do much of anything so I ended up with Pizza Hut watching an old Denzel Washington movie -- "Out of Time."...

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