Cynically Cynth Fitness

07/08/2025

Some training weeks are tough to get through, am I right?! 1/3 of the program down for MCM!

When I looked at the calendar for this week, I wasn’t sure how I would fit all that mileage in between appointments, social plans, body aches, and the forecasted freak weather events, so I lowered my training volume expectations. Almost every morning of this week was a mental battle to get out the...

26/07/2025

I get knocked down, but I get up again in Week 5 of Marine Corps Marathon training!

With one month down, my body has adjusted to the early mornings and different eating patterns that go along with marathon training. I’m still not a fan of the extreme heat, but I now expect it and come fully prepared to replenish the 5+ pounds of water weight I lose every time I run for an hour or...

26/07/2025

www.cynicallycynthfitness.com/blog/2025/7/25/mcm-week-4-slower-than-the-dmv

17/07/2025

www.cynicallycynthfitness.com/blog/2025/7/14/mcm-week-3-seasons-of-run

17/07/2025

www.cynicallycynthfitness.com/blog/2025/7/11/mcm-week-2-red-white-and-bbqs

17/07/2025

www.cynicallycynthfitness.com/blog/2025/7/1/mcm-week-1-dog-days-and-heat-waves

17/07/2025

www.cynicallycynthfitness.com/blog/2025/7/1/runapalooza-finding-my-stride-again

18/10/2024

A goal of mine for 13 years was to complete this triathlon and I finally took the plunge! If I can set a goal and follow through (eventually haha) then so can you!

It was finally Jersey Girl Triathlon race weekend and I was a melting pot of nerves, excitement, anxiety, impatience, joy, and dread. Taper week before any event always unearths these suppressed feelings that I’ve compartmentalized during training. The difference this time was all the additional l

04/10/2024

https://www.cynicallycynthfitness.com/blog/2024/10/4/mermaid-mode-activated

28/09/2024

https://www.cynicallycynthfitness.com/blog/2024/9/27/tri-something-new

As I sat in my dorm room in 2011 scrolling Facebook on my laptop my senior year of college (when we still had dumbphones), I came across a tiny ad on the right rail of my screen promoting the first annual Jersey Girl Triathlon . It was a women-only short distance triathlon that would take place in

27/12/2023

How do you measure a year? Here's how I only spend 2% of my time on my fitness goals!

The awkward week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is annually a time for reflection, sleeping in, getting confused over what day it is, looking back at journal entries, and last-minute goal completion. Certain Broadway show lyrics also come to mind. 525,600 minutes. How do you measure…measur...

08/12/2023

It's so NEAT how we get to WFH more often. Less commutes and more sleep sound great to me! What's the downside? Check out my post to learn what NEAT is and how you can incorporate more of it in your daily life so you can be

A few years ago, our commutes consisted of sprints, trains, and automobiles for 5 days a week. A city-dweller could meet their step goal on their wearable device just from walking across a few city avenues to and from work. When we were forced to stay put during the event-that-must-not-be-named, emp