- Mango!
- Training is Humility
- No One Has to Worry About Me.
- Tri Like a Mother
- Time to Build
- Why Pinterest?
- Play Back: Triathlon Swimming
- First Triathlon: A Personal Record to SMASH in September!
- Aloha, Dalai Lama!
- Do You Love Your Job? Does it Love You Back?
- RIP, Ryan Suenaga
- Of Angels and Science
- Surviving Mercury in Retrograde.
- A Hard Week
- Get in the Pool
- Collections
- No Pain, No Gain?
- My Training isn’t Her Training, or Your Training.
- Facebook: Unable to Update Status, RESOLVED!
- Looking Over Your Shoulder
- Waiting For Something Amazing
- Finisher’s T-shirt
- I Beat Myself Up
- Hawaii Winter
- What’s After Life?
- Now Where Was I?
- Demographic Profiling
- Bike ride plus run today!
- Today’s workout: Delayed, but on the books.
- Winging it Through the Weekend
- Letting Go.
- The Neighbors
- Let Love Rule.
- The Poet is In.
- Fun with Power Surges
- The Irony is not Lost.
- A Universal Dip.
- There Was Always a Backdoor.
- Groovin’ With Life’s Transitions.
- Stalled by Faded Photographs
- Letting go of Personal Artifacts
- Converting Hot Flashes into Athletic Prowess
- What’s at the End of Your Rainbow?
- Kona Winds, Vog, Hawaii Paragliding Association
- Hawaii’s Darker Side.
- Enjoying Life in Hawaii
- IRL, Not so Much.
- Ocean Therapy
- Good Riddance to 2011.
- The #5kin100days Graduation Run
- A Year-Long Love Letter.
- My Struggle.
- Sometimes, Music Says What Words Can’t.
- Double Workout Day
- Merry Christmas 2011
- Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
- Adventure is Out There!
- Boob Bots Want Me.
- Pass the Doobie.
- Dabbling With Makeup.
- That Looks Like Fun.
- A Fun Family
- Personal Space
- Live Theatre
- Just 17 Days left in 2011
- Regrettably an Easy Week.
- A Day Off
- Life is Meant to be Fun.
- Honolulu Marathon? Commit Me.
- Early to Bed, Early to Rise
- I Like to Talk, but I Like to Listen More.
- The Thunk.
- Birthdays & Other Holidays
- Rules I Make Up About Ice Cream
- Spreading the Aloha.
- Together, Apart.
- Do You Hear the Elements Call You?
- Retire Young.
- A Kiss is Not Just a Kiss.
- Missteps in the Dance of Life.
- Casanova, Feminist.
- Sparkly is the Word of the Day.
- Thanks.
- Perpetual Soap.
- A Grimace or a Smile?
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Time for a Haircut?
- Measurements.
- Thrill of the Kill: The Conclusion of Thrill of the Hunt.
- Isn’t it a Wondra?
- hed goes here.
- Thrill of the Hunt.
- Another Man’s Refuge
- Composing Prose
- Where are the Angels?
- Nine minutes to write this.
- Peddling my drug.
- RIP, Mary Kaye Ritz
- #5kin100days on 11/11/11
- Wienies and worms, pasta and pups
- Salty sweetness.
- Why I haiku.
- Live Each Day as Though it Were Your Last?
- I used to swing.
- Came up short.
- The Privilege of Giving
- To Sir, With Love
- Designer or Knock Off?
- Last Chance November
- Is Fat Permanent?
- Fresh Tomato Sauce
- Big, Bold Lives.
- I need to see your I.D.
- Cubed to the 10th.
- What NOT to Wear.
- Packing boxes
- A day without earbuds.
- So who rests on Sunday?
- Happy 16th Anniversary, John
- Saying Thank you with a MahaloGram
- Save the World
- @WordPress’s Freshly Pressed
- GFD: Gone For the Day
- Body Image
- Double workout day.
- How ROMANTIC
- It’s All Dread.
- The Benderettes and #5kin100days
- Wet awareness.
- How do you write? How do you read?
- Monster in a Box
- Naughty Words
- HMSA Makes a Difference
- Koko Crater vs. Koko Head
- Stay tuned…
- RIP, Steve Jobs.
- A night off
- Personal Piñatas
- Week 2 Begins: #5Kin100days
- Hawaiian Humane Society’s Pet Walk 2011
- The FORCE of Jersey Gals.
- Inspiring Community Service Among our Youth.
- Adding the BFF Element.
- Look the Part.
- Single vs. Married?
- Before #5kin100days.
- Honolulu Century Ride in the Books: Sub 6-hour Moving Time!
- Dedicating 30th Annual Honolulu Century Ride to Ryan Suenaga
- Man down on sidewalk.
- Hau‘oli Lā Hānau to Kid1, 12. Happy Birthday, Kiddo!
- Enduring the self-anointed expert.
- Posting an entry whether I feel like it or not.
- The ethics of hotdogs.
- Just a Different Sunday in Hawaii.
- Punctures and Riding Bicycle in Exciting Hawaii Weather.
- Anxious vs Eager: Running.
- Hawaii Weather.
- Surfer Girl Memories.
- A few Na Wahine Pics and Others Taken by @AlohaJohn
- My Michelin-Man Middle.
- My first Na Wahine Festival, my first win!
- What don’t you do?
- Why do you go on?
- Postaday, #postaday2011.
- Hiking Koko Crater
- Fitful sleep, strange dreams, self doubt.
- Labor Day Ride: Tapering.
- Last week of Na Wahine Festival preparations.
- We ache. #bicycle #Honolulu #FTWind
- The Price of Being Kind.
- Modern Meals & Mouth-watering Munchies.
- Brain Farts and Other It-can-happen-to-you Moments.
- Buying Time with Non Answers.
- Minus Mine Craft.
- Volcano to Volcano
- Swimming the Duke’s Waikiki Ocean Mile.
- Waves for the Duke in Waikiki
- The Kindness of Colleagues.
- Positive changes.
- Swimming Zen.
- Homework for parents, get out your checkbooks.
- Life is busy
- Spinning through the weekend
- Looking into your eyes.
- What a crock.
- Blog positively.
- Coach’s Oats breakfast in a jar.
- Dinner in Honolulu’s Chinatown.
- Happy Birthday, Byron. Hau’oli lā hānau!
- Dodging the raindrops in East Oahu.
- First event: Duke’s Waikiki Mile Ocean Swim
- Lucky we live Hawaii.
- An ocean mile.
- Disease pretention.
- I wish it were curly!
- Share the Shoulder!
- Guts and Gusts: Kiss My Derailleur!
- Aloha Friday and Looking Forward to a Busy Weekend.
- What is your darkness?
- Hawaii’s first sexting case.
- The Breast Milk Baby doll.
- Wedding bells for Mark & Gypsy Raven!
- Admiration for Tinman Triathletes.
- Praying prey; a quick bicycle ride to Diamond Head and back.
- Pride proud.
- Little miracles.
- Listening to the young and fit.
- Dawn Patrol.
- Awkward moments.
- Tour de Hills.
- Hill drills, siestas, culinary pursuits.
- Seeking to improve my blog: HELP!
- Cloak of invisibility.
- The mental exercise of swimming.
- Quirky Search Engine Hits to Lavagal.
- I like Mondays.
- Hau`oli Lā Hānau, John!
- FTWind…!
- My Hawaii Home.
- Cycling through
- Brand me.
- Perils of curls.
- Searching for Alan Rickman.
- 38-mile bicycle ride, 4 hills, 0 photos.
- Developing a taste for ocean swimming again.
- Cross training.
- I’m a mature athlete.
- I was the ugly one.
- Back on board.
- Fitness takes no holidays.
- Riding for fun and contemplation instead of pain.
- Back on the bike. Motrin cocktails.
- A birthday wishlist.
- Trip highlight: Visiting Performance Bicycle in Philly.
- Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
- Jiggedy Jig.
- Jiggedy Jig.
- Jiggedy Jig.
- Extra baggage
- Reconnecting.
- On my way
- A memorial to survivors.
- A Capitol Day.
- The thrills are in the journey.
- Global Positioning Systems & old haunts
- New York City has Aloha, too!
- We shoot with cameras.
- Raising Sisters
- Flocked.
- Visiting the Republicans.
- Turning memories over upon themselves.
- Adventures in eating.
- Just a thought
- Mahalo to an old Conti tire, and to Oahu bicyclists who pay it forward.
- A family day
- Hawaii Kai’s Fourth of July Celebration
- The importance of adjectives.
- Working on my flexibility.
- Anxious vs. Eager.
- MiniMe time.
- A date, a few rescues, a storm, a South Shore swell, and a ride.
- Trying to find a happy place.
- About that mid-life crisis thing…
- Swimming through a mid-life crisis?
- Listening to our bodies.
- Respect: Bicyclists and drivers should share the road.
- Memorial Day, 2011.
- Easy, breezy East Oahu ride & the Hibiscus Half Marathon.
- Wild windy ride!
- Signed up for masters swimming in East Oahu
- Writing nothing.
- Getting comfortable with each other, IRL.
- Back on the WW wagon again
- Blogging: Just another word for laying it on the line.
- Did Verizon give me a drug dealer’s phone number?
- And the band played on and on and on…
- Back in the swim
- Meeting of minds over MiniMe.
- Aloha to Kimberly Click.
- Where, oh where?
- From Here to Eternity, Kodak moments are forever.
- Photo fun while riding in the wild: A touch of klass for Kahala
- Keeping it real
- Day2 dining with Kid1: Pacific Soul Cafe
- Conveyor-belt sushi in Hawaii Kai
- The most exciting day of her life.
- Hawaii Fourth Graders’ Rite of Passage
- Megamind is Mega Mine.
- Motherhood is not for the meek.
- Wintry, busy Mother’s Day weekend
- The appropriate use of jeggings.
- HMSA taps teens for community inspiration
- It’s TRUE: Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 8, 2011
- I’m going to tweet this
- It’s bad manners to gloat
- Gross stuff about bicycle riding; pasta with caviar
- What would Ryan do? Jam Pack it!
- And the Beat Goes on.
- Mea Culpa!
- Barack Obama, Hawaii Ohana, Malamalama, Obama’s Mama
- The Ryan Suenaga Effect
- RIP, Ryan Suenaga
- Easter 2011 Ride: Peace & Love to all.
- Chicks who chest thump
- Life with curly, err, fuzzy hair.
- Administrative Professionals Day
- Stretching the Solar System, for my Convenience.
- Morning Commute
- A protective coating of grime
- Great ride: 26.19 miles, oh solo mio
- Back on the bicycles
- Crime scene tape across East Oahu
- Erring on the side of caution when it comes to Norwalk virus on Oahu
- Germs by the eugiekazillions!
- Home sick
- An argument for having children, aka, eating one’s words
- The Results are IN! Haleiwa Metric Century (well, ours anyway @;-) )
- Last training ride before the Haleiwa Metric Century
- Sunday, rain or shine, the Haleiwa Metric Century
- Good-bye with Aloha
- Balancing fitness and happiness
- My first biopsy shave.
- Does your alarm clock oversleep on Mondays, too?
- Gorgeous day for a ride! 51.9 miles!
- Haleiwa Metric Century Packet Pickup
- Brace yourself, it’s April 1!
- How we age
- Your virtual presence is all that’s requested
- Is your fly down?
- Techies, tech tease, tech ease.
- Be friendly on your #bicycle
- Surfing and bicycling in the wind
- Avocado love for my colleagues
- A high-tech heritage in Hawaii
- A ’60s love icon
- Tickled by a feather dangled by @lei_chic
- Monday morning admiration
- Wind whipped and wiped out
- Gusts, guts and grit: Embrace all scenarios!
- Why Hawaii?
- Kish me, I’m Irish!
- Would you change anything about yourself?
- Beware the Ides of March
- A blind man’s amazing point of view.
- Riding in groups vs. riding alone?
- What a man says, what a woman hears: Relationship landmines
- Once again, dodged a #HItsunami bullet
- Raising Daughters
- See ya in heck
- Happy Birthday, Starbucks!
- Monday Morning Musings
- BTB FTW & KMOB
- Hill Slayer: Solo Ride in the Wild
- Suspiciously Well Dressed
- Girls Day in Hawaii
- Can exercise keep you young? I’m counting on it!
- Getting back on my elliptical baby
- So much for Lanikai Beach
- Solo ride, second day of training for Haleiwa Metric Century
- First training day for Haleiwa Metric Century: Hills
- Triggering that exercise high
- Smokin’ hot, smokin’ not.
- Mysterious Words With Friends Opponents
- Pleasant people
- Alone on the road and lost in my thoughts
- Alone on the road and lost in my thoughts
- 73-hour ride?
- At least your life is not an opera
- Despite social media, some IRL things never change
- What I mean by PERFECT
- Morning commute from East Oahu: iDrive!
- Stuffed peppers
- Kickin’ Ass through East Oahu
- Impromptu ride to let off steam at Garmin Connect – Details
- Being a Valentine 4-Ever
- Try a little benevolence
- Bumps for the Benderettes
- Rethinking goals
- Point and click
- First date: Super Bowl Sunday 1991
- Are you lonesome tonight?
- It isn’t easy to Question Authority
- Pau hana by the bay
- Bloom where you are planted
- Breakfast for dinner
- Buh-bye to Burt, aka, @Bytemarks
- What bit us?
- What a mom always wants: Me time, right?
- Out sick
- Sort of celebrating an anniversary
- Parallel Universes
- The Pope weighs in on virtual relationships
- RIP, Jack LaLanne
- Three time’s a charm by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- An afternoon East Oahu ride
- What Would Governor Neil Abercrombie Do?
- January: The Seasonal Health Club Urge Surge
- Workout Day 38, postaday2011 day 19
- An appetite for lasagne and life
- Dixie Grill BBQ at Diamond Head Lookout today
- Wearing makeup
- Sony Open, aka High Concentrations of Male Hormones and Bad Driving in East Oahu at Garmin Connect – Details
- Weight Watchers at Work in hiatus
- Why blog?
- Pineapple Express
- Muchness
- Wrapping up our 30-day Fitness Challenge
- We’re all in this together
- Green Green Gasoline by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- @postaday 2011 Daily writing challenge
- Prepared
- It could be your lucky day
- Finding the right words
- Some days are too busy
- Proud Lavagal Blogger Alert! 2010 in review
- Happy New Year!
- Last ride of 2010: Lemme get the bugs outta my teeth! by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- Work, play, motherhood. Making it all count.
- Celebrating the departing jiggly thighs, et. al.
- Saying good bye to an old, old friend
- Weight Watchers week 3 on PointsPlus
- Day 5 of our 30-day fitness challenge at Garmin Connect – Details
- Daily Fitbit stats
- Weight Watchers PointsPlus Week 2 results & 4HB & 30-day challenge with @clickk
- Koko Head School succeeds where others fail
- Seeking balance
- Weight Watchers PointsPlus update week 1
- Vikings need love, too
- Ride with the wind! via Garmin Connect – Details
- A net gain
- Small kid-time friends on Facebook
- Signs of something amazing
- Cafe negligée
- 30 days hath November
- PointsPlus is minus calories?
- Time to decompress
- The coolness of two refrigerators
- Hair is the difference
- Hawaiian Style Thanksgiving
- Happy Thanksgiving Eve
- Giving therapy
- Tell the story, don’t be the story
- The Have-to-Do List
- Riding with Chet the Jet
- Celebrating each other
- Fitness apps addiction
- Track My Happiness app
- My romantic ocean tale
- Eager to engage
- Gorgeous Sunday morning solo ride: Out of the saddle!
- Draft me to the nearest McRib!
- Friday or Monday?
- Veterans Day, or celebrating the parallel universe
- My holiday
- New personal record
- Deadline pressure
- Wordless weekend?
- Life’s power surges
- Food
- Meeting expectations
- Examining the cosmic navel dust
- Asking the loaded question
- #NaNoWriMo or #NaBloPoMo?
- Take a nap!
- Staying loose by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- Windy ride today at Garmin Connect – Details
- iPhone takes the plunge
- Face The Wind (FTW!) by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- Dinner weirdness: Spaghetti tacos
- White girls can Zumba
- Learning from Tyler Clementi’s tragedy
- Honolulu Century Ride misses its mission
- Is everybody happy?
- Is something going around?
- Lose-A-Palooza
- Split-screen sadness
- Century training 9/11 by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- Big ring, little ring. It’s no big deal!
- Century training 9/4 by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- My drinking problem
- Diane Ako, Director of Public Relations
- Solo century training 8/22 by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- August 21 ride with John lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- Today’s ride by lavagal at Garmin Connect – Details
- What do you THINK I’ve been up to?
- Aging and motivation
- Listen to the pants
- Sun, sea, surf & salvaging one’s skin
- Wrap your head around this
- Reflections on connections
- Pedal pushing
- You need this: Gourmet coffee calorie counter
- When you are a writer
- Oh, the humanity!
- Happy Birthday Charlotte
- We have a winner!
- Win a $50 Safeway Gift Card
- Twitter Commutes
- $50 gift card from Safeway Hawaii
- Attention Hawaii Safeway Shoppers
- The Pleasant Peasant Cooks Quinoa Tabouli
- Mahalo for reading
- Up at the-butt-crack-of dawn
- It’s time to be healthy again!
- From the lifeboat
- Weigh-Wednesday
- Enjoy the ride
- Twitter personality
- Cafe 510
- What’s your luck and are you down on yours?
- What’s your online personality?
- Kids these days
- How else would I get an iPad?
- Am I in your crosshairs?
- Mother’s Day
- Chillin’ on Oahu’s North Shore
- Lifetime goal: Weight Watchers at Work
- Ever wish?
- Eyjafjallajokull and perspective
- At the mercy…
- Participate! A Timely Global Mosaic
- The Pleasant Peasant Cooks #1
- And the results are in!
- The Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Looking forward 50 million years
- Stepped in it
- 2-year anniversary at HMSA FTW
- Legolamania
- Doing more with less
- In repair
- The purpose of music
- A family birthday celebration
- Engaging backchannel during presentations
- Social media for the expanding health care audience
- A rough patch
- Tiger Woods and the Meaning of Marriage
- Recovery update, 6 days after injury, 2 days post surgery
- Did I just get shot?
- Bye-bye, January, and good riddance!
- Fallen
- Legislating love
- Children
- January obits
- Remember? Huh? Remember?
- End of year purges
- The best restaurant in East Oahu
- IRL is always the best
- Mitchell’s Five for Friday
- Peddling our okoles up the Pass called Kolekole
- Getting out on the water
- New motivation: Shake that thang!
- Finding time for writing
- Gaining through losing
- Solar clothes dryer
- So what’s a Twitter with you?
- My own weekend
- Monarchs reign at butterfly ranch
- Obama’s Mama in Malamalama
- Lance Armstrong training in Hawaii
- Raising children
- Planning the California Rolls; Xmas Spuds
- Holiday pressure
- A birthday milestone
- Gifts from the avocado tree
- Homework
- Assignments
- Kiawe Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving Eve 2008
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