I don’t know who ‘They’ are but for the last several years that I’ve been running Mac (my hubby) and Bryan have been telling me I needed to cross train. I knew this was true, however I liked running too much to listen to them. Then I had not 1 but 2 little girls 13 […]
October 2013 I wrote a post about how running has changed over the years ending with running with 1 child. Well now its changed again, I have 2 children and no gym membership. I never used it and honestly I lost faith in their child care when I kept seeing employees on their phones. So […]
Well folks, I just couldn’t be content without one more race (maybe two??) I did a little searching and found a 1/2 marathon relay for July 4th! After a quick shout out on facebook for a team mate and a chat with the hubby I signed up. Right after I paid the fee, life got […]
I’m on the tail end of a cold, the baby hasn’t been sleeping well and I’m over the snow. I’m officially in an exercise slump, at the worst time possible. I have a race in 3 weeks! Good thing is I know I can run it. Bad news is I won’t be able to do […]
Life is busy and often times its to chaotic to just completely change the way you do something overnight. So why not set mini-goals to get there one step at a time? Lets say you want to switch to eating at home most of the time but currently you eat out several times a week. […]
Well I’m a long time from being able to run again…at least 6 weeks but man do I have the itch. I’m watching all my bloggy friends talk about their races, seeing the new shoes come out and planing for my first ‘big’ race in February. All of that has me thinking how to I […]
Cross training is important for any athlete, or exerciser (is that a word? spell check thinks so.) Last summer I probably ran far too much without any strength training, bad Amber, I was pretty good at keeping up with yoga though and I think that helped a lot. However with this pregnancy I’ve definitely seen […]
Well guys my second 1/2 marathon is this Sunday and I’m full of butterfly’s. It all started last week when I got sick and couldn’t run until yesterday….Last week was supposed to be my last high mileage week but no…guess not. Then with some further research I’ve learned that although my protein shake hammer gel combo […]
Last week I filled you all in on a little something I was excited about….negative splits. Ok if your not a runner just stop now I’m going to bore you. Are all of you non-runners gone? Here we go. Saturday I ran 12 miles as a trainer for my October 1/2 marathon. My […]
The other day I was reading one of my favorite ‘healthy’ blogs and ran across a term I had heard before but never knew what it meant. Thanks to Caitlin from Healthy Tipping Point I now do! Negative Splits are when your split times decrease over the length of the race. For example a 6 […]