(PLAYLIST) Burning calories with Run DMC.

I lost my iPod last week. It was tired – 4 years old and required the occasional nuclear reboot where everything must be destroyed and rebuilt through the magic of the little geniuses inside of iTunes. I looked all over the house, the car, the office and while I’m not what one would refer...

October 14th, 2009 | Mojo | Read More

The Great Dude Hike!

The Dude. Oh how we loves the social interwebs! Today, I was cruising around the Twitter (follow us @greatskirthike!), looking for inspiration and I found @100hikes, a hiker who is on the trails for many of the same reasons as Jill and I – but with a more imminent deadline (100 hikes by January...

September 29th, 2009 | Mojo | Read More

Team Tin Man turns Charlotte green.

Good morning Charlotte! The Skirts took it on the road recently to participate in the Start! Heart Walk in Charlotte, N.C. to benefit the American Heart Association. We walked as Team Tin Man, in honor of my brother Keith, inspiration for, and art director of, The Great Skirt Hike, who, at age 39,...

September 20th, 2009 | Mojo | Read More

Power in the Playlist

This is what Jill's iPod looks like. I felt it. The moment where it all came together…the lost weight, the no-more-recreational-cigarette-smoking, the hikes, the treadmill, the short pants, the better nutrition…I finally felt it. That’s right…the runner’s high. But was...

August 25th, 2009 | Mojo | Read More

The Happiness Project

I recently came across The Happiness Project on a day that pretty much sucked. Although I wouldn’t put it past myself to ask the Googles for help getting out of a funk, I found the link on a fitness site drawing parallels between being healthy and happy. Go figure. Long story short, the site is...

August 10th, 2009 | Mojo | Read More

Spin Cycle

“An exercise in masochism,” is how spin classes have been described to me over the years. In fact, it’s become a bit of a demon for me – something I’ve always put in the “no way can I do that” category of my mind along with keeping houseplants alive and calculus. My...

August 5th, 2009 | Mojo, Training | Read More

Be Your Own Charity

Here's to an awesome life. Are you hiking for Cancer? Puppies? Kittens? No. We’re hiking for us…for our physical and mental health, for those we love and for those who love us and for our future. When we talk about The Great Skirt Hike people sometimes ask if we’re walking for a...

July 30th, 2009 | Mojo | Read More

Hitting “Reset”

Last year I told my husband that I needed a break. I needed to LIVE! And that in 2009 I was going to travel. I didn’t know how or where or for how long. I learned a little something about setting goals this year, about staying focused, and about making shit happen. This year I spent a few months...

July 19th, 2009 | Challenges, Life, Mojo | Read More