My Training

To taper or not to taper?

September 16, 2011

I know I haven’t really mentioned it on the blog very much but I am doing a century ride tomorrow. Sorry to leave you in the dark about so many of my life events because I don’t really share very much about my life, family and fitness with you, maybe I will get better at opening up;) (Had to crop out part of my shorts. Great idea to wear blue shorts to the gym when you are a sweat machine, ...

Why the Marathon?

September 15, 2011

Obviously we all LOVE working out because we physically feel SO MUCH BETTER but another reason I love to work out is because it gives me time to THINK CLEARLY and REMEMBER PAST EVENTS. Today’s workout thoughts revolved around what delicious dessert I should make tonight, why I was only wearing one sock and WHY the heck did I sign up for my first marathon. and then I remembered……. My bff Megan did the SLC marathon the previous year and ...

Just for you….

September 14, 2011

I was lucky enough to catch a picture of the sweat just about to drip off of my nose, just for you. Hopefully, you can still eat your lunch after this. I was wearing shorts, I promise. They were BOOTY shorts because anything goes when you workout at home! I clocked in a beautiful 3.2 miles @ an 8:15 pace. I was going to squeeze in some yoga afterwards but judging by the state of my hair, I decided that ...

If you could be……

September 13, 2011

Now that I am getting back into running I refuse to run two days in a row for a while. It is going to be tough now that I have that wonderful taste in my mouth of how marvelous running is but I know that it is going to be the best thing to prevent future injuries if I build up my mileage and running days SLOWLY. So, I was sentenced to the elliptical. I love to have music videos ...

Favorite stretch!

September 12, 2011

Billy did not okay me posting this picture (actually he doesn’t even know that I took this picture) so if I am sleeping on the couch tonight, I am blaming it on you and the fact that I am addicted to blogging and posting pictures with or without my husbands approval. I guess that amount of sweat is what happens when you pull out an 11.6 mile run (all uphill, he ran from our house to my parents house) with ...

A fun spin workout!!!

September 8, 2011

Either my nose went really crooked or I moved while taking the picture but either way I was trying to demonstrate for you how it looks like I went running under waterfalls when in reality it was just my head trying to produce a way to cool mself off. 30 minutes elliptical (I am loving my elliptical time because I get the internet from the restaurant next to the gym and I get to catch up on reading BLOGS). 30 ...

The Spinning that Didn’t Happen….YET!!!

September 7, 2011

Remember how I texted my friend last night to force her to go to a 6 a.m. spin class with me? She didn’t text back. It is the weirdest thing because everytime I see her around town after her not texting me back she says she got a new phone and didn’t have my number anymore….10 phones a year seems a little excessive….hmmmmm;) I didn’t end up going because I had no ‘friend’ to motivate me to drive the extra ...