Author Archives: Renee

About Renee

Fiftysomething biomechanical engineer, parent, partner, and recreational acrobat.

8 March 2025 – Happy International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Renee

Primary activity for this International Women’s Day is cleaning bathrooms and doing laundry. I wish I were kidding, but thankfully it is in service of an upcoming vacation so must be done regardless of how my feminist self feels about … Continue reading →

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25 February 2024 (2 of 52)

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Renee

No training video this week because I came down with the plague and spent most of the weekend in and out of a fever fugue. Husband is deep in the grant writing trenches so we’ve been eating a lot of … Continue reading →

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19 February 2024 – This is 52

Posted on February 19, 2024 by Renee

Ten years ago I used the impetus of turning 42 as my wake up call that waiting to ‘get in shape’ before signing up for circus classes would only result in even more time passing. And wow was that ever … Continue reading →

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7 Sep 2022 – Time Machine Update

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Renee

Turned out that blogging about cancer treatment in real time was too much for my capacity. I did post things on Facebook and Instagram and am copying them here onto my digital scrapbook. Looks like my biomachine will be getting … Continue reading →

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15 Aug 2022 – Time Machine Update

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Renee

Turned out that blogging about cancer treatment in real time was too much for my capacity. I did post things on Facebook and Instagram and am copying them here onto my digital scrapbook. 15 August 2022: Even a trained biomechanic … Continue reading →

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12 Sept 2022 – Stage 0

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Renee

So it’s been a year and some more. To summarize: Pandemic, turned 50, work, family, Covid vaccines, getting actual Covid, vacations where we actually went places*, and generally returning to “real life” or whatever that is going to look like … Continue reading →

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13 March 2021

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Renee

Good hair day plus still warm from flexibility class equalled this silliness. Still can’t do a back-walkover yet, but am hopeful it is in reach for my 50th birthday next year.

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04 January 2021

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Renee

It took a lot of activation energy to convince myself to do back-bending today. So glad I did because looking at the video I took makes it very clear that consistent work is starting to pay off! Not gonna lie, … Continue reading →

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2 January 2021

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Renee

Biomechanic Report: Like our family menu planning, I’m realizing that I do much better on the fitness front when I make a weekly plan rather than just doing whatever I feel like that day. Here’s what this past week looked … Continue reading →

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1 January 2021

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Renee

Like most people across the world, we welcomed the New Year from home last night. It sucked to not to be with our friends in Collingwood eating, playing crokinole, bed at 10:30p (they are as wonderfully lame about this one … Continue reading →

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