Nature Goddess: Pirate's Cove at Muir Beach
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
1y ago
Last weekend, Jade and I went on a hike at Muir Beach to see Pirate's Cove for her birthday (via Coastal Trail).  Although we have done this hike before (more than once), it is a lovely hike with ocean views that I will happily do again.  We did four miles out and back.  There are some steep parts (the beginning gets your heart rate up pretty quickly) and there are some "scrambles" if you decide to descend into Pirate's Cove.  I understood there was a long loop that includes Tennessee Valley Trail, but I am looking more closely at the map, and it looks like there are other ..read more
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Mobility Update: The Yoga Body Trapeze
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
2y ago
It has been a year since I posted about losing mobility, and two years since the world shut down for covid.  I complained of weight gain and loss of energy.  I consciously started moving more (and sitting less) about a year ago, so I have successfully maintained the same weight for the last year.  I am ready to drop some of the weight, but that is always a tightrope walk for me.  I gave up those sugary Vitamin Waters again.  No weight loss.  Gave up drinking alcohol every night.  No weight loss.  It gets frustrating.  I know if I just start heavily ..read more
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52 Hike Challenge: The Update
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
2y ago
Natural Bridges - Santa Cruz In October, I had written about taking on the 52 Hike Challenge in 2021.  In 2020, I had signed up to do a hiking challenge through the East Bay Regional Parks website, but that kind of went to shit after covid hit.  When I wrote about the challenge in October, I had about 8 weeks left in the year, and 17 hikes to get in.  Facing bad weather in the last month or so, I really had to lighten up on my rules for the hikes, but I am proud to announce that I DID hit my 52 hikes.  I had to do a couple of "urban hikes" through town since t ..read more
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52 Hike Challenge
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
2y ago
In January, I saw people on social media talking about a 52 hike challenge for 2021.  I figured I could handle one hike per week, so I jumped on the band wagon.  I started the year strong, getting hike 1 on January 1 and hike 2 on January 2.   Despite some injuries throughout the year, I have successfully had at least one hike every month.  I have done 35 hikes total.  However, with only about 8 weeks left in the year, I need to fit 17 hikes in to hit my 52.   I have done a lot of local hikes -- the Black Diamond side of Contra Loma is a favorite dog-fr ..read more
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Nature Goddess: Lands End Hike
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
2y ago
Last weekend, Jade and I braved San Francisco during Fleet Week to do the Lands End hike.  This hike is one of my favorites.  Although there are some stairs, this is a fairly flat and easy hike.  If you go at the right time (i.e., not summer when the fog is the worst in the mornings), you have gorgeous views of the ocean and Golden Gate Bridge for the majority of the time you're on the trail.  And you can hike a mile, or you can wander into the multi-million dollar neighborhoods and continue your exploration.  My ultimate goal is to hike from the Lands End/Sutro Baths ..read more
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Return To Twirly Studios
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
2y ago
After a two year hiatus, I returned to Grace at Twirly Studios to take a class with my friend and my sister-in-law.  I have barely touched a pole since my last surgery in 2019.  I worried about all of the reconstruction, implants, and mesh in my chest, so giving up pole was something I decided needed to happen.  I have a tear in my shoulder, as well as just a general degradation of my knees and hips that were causing pain after I would pole or roll around on the ground too long.   Anyway, I have to say that I really enjoyed the class.  As the other two peopl ..read more
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Nature Goddess: Alamere Falls Hike
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
2y ago
I did the Alamere Falls hike, on the Point Reyes National Seashore, in July 2019.  Roundtrip, the hike is 8-1/2 to 12 miles, depending on your route.  There are a couple of scrambles that require a little faux rock climbing, a ton of poison oak, but lots of gorgeous views.  It is about a two hour drive for me, ending in a long rocky dirt road, with little to no cell service (so download your All Trails maps, and maybe print out some paper maps).  You really have to get there by 8 AM if you want parking, so that means leaving the house by 6 AM. When Jade and I started talk ..read more
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Twirly Turns 16!
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
2y ago
Last year, I posted about Twirly Girls being sold (in the middle of a pandemic no less), and reminisced about the previous ten years of being a Twirly Girl.  As of last month, California is open for business again, and Grace and Rosanne couldn't let July pass without throwing a Sweet 16 party for the Twirly Tribe.  I think it has been over two years since I have stepped foot in the studio.  I had a self-diagnosed SLAP tear to my right shoulder.  It happened in pole, but I also think certain poses in yoga helped contribute to it not healing (I never went to the doctor as I ..read more
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Mobility
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
3y ago
Mobility.  I'm losing mobility.  I feel old even saying that.  Today is one year since California shut down for two weeks to "bend the curve."  Friday the 13th was the last day I was in my office working a traditional "8-5," and California issued a mass quarantine order relating to the covid-19 pandemic effective Tuesday, March 17, 2020.  Also, today is the 17th anniversary of my weight loss surgery -- a journey that helped me lose 165 pounds.   I have had so many surgeries in my lifetime.  Ten times, I have gone under anesthesia to allow a surgeon to c ..read more
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Pandemic Burnout
Confessions of a Twirly Girl - A blog about pole dancing and learning to love yourself
by lolorashel
3y ago
  Never lose your sense of humor Two weeks to bend the curve!  Or was it three weeks?  I don't remember.  That was ten months ago.  And we are still here, in the United States (California specifically), being ordered to stay home so that covid-19 patients don't overtake our hospitals...again.  I guess we are finally in the predicted second wave.   I've had a hard time vocalizing how I've felt recently.  2020 has been amazing to me.  I bought this house.  I have an amazing relationship.  I live close to my family, and I still ..read more
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