As I withdrew this year (after several years of inactivity) from a car-share program, I started to seriously consider bike sharing the more I see bike stations popping up around the city. I considered it even more seriously upon the June 5 announcement of an increase in Translink fares effective July 1. Is it crazy…
Category: Sporty
Fitness at Granville and Drake
Looking back at my calendar, it turns out I have been going to Ballet Lounge since early November last year, that is, five months now. My calendar also tells me that I went to 10 Level 1 classes before attempting a Level 2 class and that I have attended 23 classes there so far. All but…
Upcoming (Spring 2017 edition)
It’s March and spring is in the air and things begin again anew and I am unwittingly internalizing some of that feeling. This year, for my third year, I am volunteering through CRA’s CVITP program to assist eligible individuals in my community who have modest incomes and simple tax situations. Last year, I was on…
Sporty Lately: ClassPass + yoga like I like it
As promised, I’m finally blogging about ClassPass. My coworker Andrea had talked about it for months and I kind of ignored it. Basically, I thought I had my fitness studios to frequent and I wasn’t looking around for more. But when I gathered together the list of barre studios I wanted to try and a two-for-one offer…
Dabbling in more barre/ballet classes
In the summer and fall, my colleague Andrea told me about new barre studios in Vancouver and it took a few months (just like her raving about ClassPass – more in another post) for the information to sink in and move me to action. Having been to tens of classes at Barre Fitness (BF) and…
30-Day Challenges: Push-ups and Abs/Core
It just so happens that there are 30 days from the day I returned from San Francisco to the day we set sail for L.A., inclusive. That’s perfect timing to execute a 30-day workout challenge (or two). I don’t have the motivation or interest to do a real and varied 10 to 20 minute workout….
The Bike to Work Habit
I do this thing now, a couple times a week, that is to bike to work. It sounds so mundane especially when my walk is a mere 30 minutes (23 minutes when I used to be able to hustle) and it takes me ~27 minutes to get door-to-door with a bicycle (3.5-km distance). But consider…
I don’t do normal yoga
… because it’s boring. Two years ago, I did a spate of aerial yoga classes on an eight-class pass and determined I could get mildly nauseated when inverted and it strengthened my desire to try silks. A year ago, I did 10 “Yoga Barre” classes on a class card with Chopra Yoga which was a…
The Stawamus Chief Trail: the most difficult and dangerous activity of my life
A week ago, I was having lunch with coworkers and they were talking about hiking The Chief. Andrea had plans to do it that weekend and I felt a desire grow in me… Squamish Valley Music Festival and the possibility of traffic on the Sea to Sky Highway made Andrea postpone her plans and I was…
Sampling iDance with a Groupon
I saw the Groupon offer for ten dance classes at iDance and thought, “Perfect! Dance classes just three blocks away–it’s the closest thing to my place other than Tantra (two blocks) that is leaving the area!” But when I looked up the address, I learned iDance had moved from (but left their sign at) their…