Weekly Workouts 1.26-2.1.15

Another week, another week of rocking my workouts! 

Getting in your workouts is really all about making a habit of it. At first, you gotta get up and make yourself do it, but after a while it just becomes habit. You feel weird if you haven't gotten a workout in. This Monday, which was the day after the Miami Half Marathon, I felt like I needed to move. I was tired, but I wanted to get something in. So, I took it easy and got in some Pulse. This is the "stretching" workout for Insanity Max :30, but it's still Shaun T, so he puts some pretty hard moves in there too. I maxed out, but felt great getting moving.

Monday: Insanity Max :30 Pulse

Tuesday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Cardio

Wednesday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Power

Thursday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Sweat

Friday: REST

Saturday: 3 mile run and Insanity Max :30 Max Out Strength

Sunday: 6 mile run and Insanity Max :30 Friday Fight Round 2

My usual habit is to get my long run in on Sunday. I also want to start getting in a run on Saturday to get myself ready for the Glass Slipper Challenge. I slept in on Saturday morning, but got in my run in the afternoon, and then got in some Insanity Max :30 too. Only two more weeks of Max :30 to go, so I'll see my end results soon.

Miami Half Marathon Recap

This weekend I finally got to do a half marathon at home! Right here in the 305. I did the Miami Half Marathon. This was not only my first half in Miami, but it was also my first non-Disney half marathon.



Kris came down for this race, cause let's be serious, it wouldn't be a race without her. And we met up at the expo. That was the most painful part of the whole race experience. The expo was at the Miami Beach Convention Center. This is pretty easy to get to, but then you have to find parking, on the Beach (well, in the city of Miami Beach). I absolutely HATE Miami Beach for this reason, no parking. I ended up paying $15 for parking. Which SUCKED. But I got my bib, and my shirt, which was so cute. I also found some new headbands from Bandiwear. I had been looking for more wide headbands like these.

Kris slept at my place, and we got up at 4am to start getting ready and heading out to the Metrorail. I was so glad we were able to take the Metrorail downtown. That way I didn't have to deal with parking and all those closed streets.

It was a cold, windy morning. I was so glad to have some more long sleeved running shirts. We also layered with compression socks under out capris. And our new headbands kept our ears warm too. And we rocked our Raw Threads half marathon shirts.

We walked over to our starting corral, which was right in front of the American Airlines Arena (where the Heat play), and across the street from the Freedom Tower. Gotta say it was a nice view. Then we waited and waited and waited. We were the last corral, so we ended up starting at about 7am. We got lucky to start as the sun was rising, so the views were amazing.

But little did I know that we would be running over the MacArthur Causeway. This is a huge bridge that connects downtown Miami to Miami Beach. Thankfully this was at the beginning of the run, and slowly but surely, I made it over to the other side. The first few miles, I was feeling good.

On the way down on the bridge a girl asked if she could pace us. We said sure! She was from DC, and it was her first half. She did great and kept up with Kris and I with our intervals.

We ran to South Point and then up Ocean Drive. When you think of iconic Miami, this is it, right across from the ocean, and all those art deco buildings. It was nice to be running down it when it was empty and quiet.

 Then it seemed like it took forever to get to the other side of the beach and get on the Venetian causeway to make it back to downtown. Finally, we made it around to the convention center, and then on the opposite side of the gold course. It was getting closer. At about mile 9, I was starting to shut down. I was just tired and those early miles that seemed so easy were long gone. Luckily, Kris is usually stronger at the end of the race, so she kept up the pace and kept me going. The talking helps too!

Finally, we headed back to downtown, and I knew we were getting close to the finish line. The crowds were all so great. I'm used to Disney races, where the crowds are really controlled along the race, but here there were people everywhere. The signs were awesome, and the support was amazing.

At long last, I knew that Bayfront Park and the finish line were just around the corner. I told Kris, that I thought we might get a PR on this one, after hearing my app tell me what our time was after mile 13. And then, we finally reached that finish line. I checked after we finished and we did PR (just barely, but it counts)! Considering the wind and the two bridges that we had no idea were there that we had to cross, I call this a HUGE victory!

We got our medals too! I heard of some people that didn't get their medals after the half last year, so I was happy to get mine. Plus it's a spinning medal! Love those!

We headed back to the house and were tired and run-gry! We headed over to Lime and met up with Eddie and the kids. We celebrated with some frozen sangria! We earned it!

I had fun at this race, got a PR, and got to see the pretty parts of Miami without all those pesky crowds. I have to say that even if I don't do this race next year, I might just go out to cheer on the runners. Gotta support my hometown race!


Big HUGE thanks to David Pope, Kris's Dad, for the race pics!!

Weekly Workouts 1.19-1.25.15

This week, I was able to nail all of my workouts! Some days the morning still didn't work for me, but I got in the workouts right after getting home from work.

It was also week 1 of month 2 for Insanity Max :30, and that meant all new workouts. They were killer, but I know I'm stronger than I was a month ago.

Monday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Cardio

Tuesday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Power

Wednesday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Sweat

Thursday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Strength

Friday: Insanity Max :30 Max Out Friday Fight Round 2

Saturday: Rest Day

Sunday: Miami Half Marathon

Sunday, I rocked the Miami Half Marathon. I'll have a race recap of that up soon!

Weekly Workouts 1.12-1.18.15

As I continue on my fitness journey, I wanted to share my workouts and keep myself on track too. So I'll be posting my workouts for the week here.

Monday: Insanity Max :30 Cardio Challenge

Tuesday: Rest day (I woke up late :( )

Wednesday: Insanity Max :30 Tabata Strength

Thursday: Insanity Max :30 Sweat Intervals

Friday: Insanity Max :30 Tabata Strength

Saturday: Insanity Max :30 Friday Fight Round 1

Sunday: 10 mile run

I've realized that it's easiest if I get the workouts in in the mornings. Cause some days, I wake up late and then getting in that workout later in the day is just tricky. So I'm gonna try my best for early AM workouts next week.

What workouts did you get in this week?

Walt Disney World 10k Recap

My first race of the year is in the books! I did the Walt Disney World 10k as part of Walt Disney World Marathon weekend. My bestie and BRF (best running friend), Kris did the race with me as always. This is the biggest race weekend for RunDisney and you could tell. We go to the expo a little after 6pm, and it was still packed.

We picked up our bibs and then did our usual walking around the expo trying not to spend too much (I think Kris and I did ok this time... LOL). We grabbed some dinner and then headed back to Kris's house to try and get some rest before the very very early (3:30am) wake-up call.

We decided to wear our awesome Raw Threads shirts. But it was a cold, cold 43 degrees when we left, so that meant layering with long sleeves and my running tights too. I even got to use the running gloves (with touchscreen capability) that Mom got me for Christmas.

After waiting and waiting, and waiting and freezing my butt off, our corral finally went off at about 6:10. I don't know why, but for the Disney 10ks the corrals seem to be let out about 5 minutes apart. The waiting sucks, but waiting in the cold is even worse! I was so glad to finally start running.

And right after we left Epcot and got onto the road, we saw Anna and Elsa! They were making it snow, and I think Elsa got mad, cause it was a cold morning.

We finally warmed up and seemed to be doing pretty well on our run. We saw Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum on our way to the Boardwalk resort, and decided that we needed to stop to take a pic with these guys. By the time we reached them we only had about a mile left, so we stopped to say hi. They just loved my Alice shirt, and pushed Kris to the back when taking this pic! You can see Kris's hand behind Tweedle Dum.

Then as we were about to head into Future World, we saw the big marionette things, and noticed the new Mike Wasowski one. Another picture was in order for this.

Before I knew it the finish line was in front of me. And there I was finishing another 10k. A huge bonus was that my race pics were actually there and decent. After the Wine & Dine Half, I was so sad not even having one pic.

I finally got my Minnie Mouse medal. Now, the real reason I even registered for this race was to get the Minnie medal, cause who doesn't love Minnie. She's so cute.

After the race Kris and I decided to wait to take a picture with Minnie Mouse, but it was soooo cold, since the sun never made an appearance, that after a while we gave up and headed to the Magic Kingdom. Our first stop was Starbucks (best thing that they put on Main Street!), and then we figured we'd see some princesses.

Our first stop was Merida, cause I hadn't seen my redheaded girl yet. She was so happy to see that we had medals and invited us to the highland games.

Then we passed by the Mine Train, but the line was nuts, so we checked out Anna and Elsa at Princess Fairytale Hall. Their line didn't look too long, and since it was about to start raining, we figured we'd wait. And only 25 minutes later, I was meeting Elsa and Anna. They were so awesome.

Then we stumbled across the Fairy Godmother. She was so proud of both of us for doing the race.

Then we wrapped up the day seeing Tiana. I think she was a little cold though.

The sun still hadn't come out to play and it was still mighty chilly, so we headed off to get some lunch and do some shopping before crashing at Kris's house. I had a such great time at this race. It was cold, but Disney races are always so much fun.