Weekly Work Out Recap: 10/17-10/23

Monday: Spent the day with my kids and family!!

Pumpkin Patch fun!

I also got my Momentum Wrap in the mail!! You still have a few more days to #sharetheSpark and grab one of four uplifting and encouraging sayings <3

Tuesday: TRACK TUESDAY!!!

2 min 90%, 2 min recovery, repeated 6 times

( I was supposed to repeat 12 times, but I was limited in time)

Wednesday: Cross training, Strength training and pumpkin paintin'!

Bicep Curls with the Barbell and Hammer Curls

20 min Elliptical 

and we painted pumpkins <3

Thursday: No Training, just took the day off. Completed last minute errands, cleaned the house, and finished packing becauuuseee I was leaving for Ragnar Trail!!!!

But First.... DOUGHNUTS because!!!

(#teamSparkle)

I will have a full blog with all the Ragnar pictures and awesomeness! So be on the look out for that!!!

Friday: I ran my first two loops Friday!

My first run was 3 miles at 1PM

My seconds run was 7.4 miles around 8:30PM

I was actually quite surprised with my pace, my 3 miler was in the hot hot heat and my 7.4 miler was cold! haha Only in Texas

Saturday: Started my third run at about 6AM. 

Every other detail.. how the courses felt, how they looked, everryyyy detail will be in my next blog!!!! I have tons of pictures of share!!!!

Sunday: RESTTTT  15 miles of TRAILS is something my body isnt as used to..... but I felt amazing during my runs. (thats all the details for now! haha)

Jason and I worked on my studio! 

I finally got to hang up my medal holder. I LOVE it!!!

( Ill attach a link in case anyone wants to check out her beautiful work.)

Isnt it pretttyyy!!!
Find her work here:  The Modern Whittler

I also got a little bit of happy mail! My Sparkle Athletic/We Run Social Pre-Order came in! Its perfect <3

Hope everyone has a good week! Happy Running!!!

The Rock N Roll Marathon is ONLY 39 days away!

Weekly Work Out Recap: 10/10-10/16

Monday: No Gym or running. We spent the day with my childhood best friend (Aunt) Megan!! We picked out Halloween costumes for the kids, deocrated the house and she came and watched Brendan at gymnastics!

Tuesday: Normally, I have Track Tuesday (Speed Training) but my friend who runs with me wasnt feeling well. I normally never run alone in the dark.... we meet at 5am. So I stretched and foam rolled.

Wednesday: 5 mile treadmill run and back strength training! I love the cardio cinema at Golds.

Back work outs:

Lateral Pull down: 10x4

Bent over Barbell Row: 10x4
Low Row: 10x4

Thursday: Rest ( felt sore from my back work out haha)

Friday: 30 minutes on the Elliptical, stretch, foam rolling and some core work!

Saturday: Adventure day!!! 12 mile with the Fleet Feet Crew... Then with the Road Runners......... then... the Down Town Running Group??

Yes, I got separated from my running group and ended up running with two other groups. hahaha... meaning. I got lost from the Fleet Feet Runners, then the Road Runners, THEN the DTR Group too. I ended up alone for about 3 miles but found my way back. Thank goodness for GPS haha. I was supposed to do 15 miles, but ill take 12, extra adventure and new friends!

How did I get so turned around?? The Fleet Feet training groups normally run the same route, but the full marathon runners had an extra 6 miles to run... at mile 4 most of the half runners turned back around. There are only about 6 people training for the full, so its easy to get separated and all our are paces are soo different. I started following the Road Runners by accident around mile 6, then I realized  I was in the wrong running group, and found what I thought were "our arrows" but was actually the DTR Group arrows..... did about a mile with them. Found the Fleet Feet arrows... got back on track. I'm not sure how I got so distracted but I missed the turn for my group and kept running until I hit a road and grocery store I didn't recognize. I didn't want to turn back. 1) I was running low on fuel 2) I'm not sure how off course I got and I didn't want to run around in circles 3) I got nervous. I pulled out my GPS, I was about 3  miles I away. So I followed that! 

Sunday: I was planning on doing a 2 mile recovery run, but I was exhausted by the time I got home from work.

Hope everyone has a great week! Packing for Ragnar starts today!!!!!!

Weekly Workout Recap 9/12/16 - 9/18/16

This past week was just a crazy busy week! Working, training, and my sons birthday!!

Monday: 5 mile run on the treadmill, and a light Shoulder circuit. ( I didn't get to finish because child watch called me for my daughter at the gym #momlife.)
Shoulder Circuit: (I normally do this 4-5 times)
Dummbell Lateral Raises ( 10-12 reps)
Dumbbell Front Raises (8-10 reps)
Overhead Dummbell Press (6-8 reps)
I repeat this sequence about 4-5 times depending on how I feel after my run. I take about a 20 - 30 second rest in between each set.
After I got home, I foam rolled!

Tuesday: Track Tuesday!!!! I'm not sure if I was tired, still recovering from my long run on Saturday or my body just wasn't feeling speed training that morning, but it wasn't my best speed work session. (I'm okay with that because hey, I still got a run in!)
But I did 400m hard run with 200m of recovery. I probably went about 85% with my hard run.
I only did it 4 times, instread of the 6-8 times planned... I then just lapped around the track twice.
BUT a big thank you to my good friend Helen for getting up super early to run. <3

SOOOO early!

Wednesday: Cross training on the Elliptical. My legs felt so tense and tight on Tuesday. Going on the elliptical always helps me loosen up some. I did 30 minutes on there then did some bicep work!!
Cable curls 10x 3, barball curls 10x 3, and hammer curls 10x3. my weight is normally about 20lbs.

Thursday: Rest. lol. Just felt like resting.

Friday: Well, for starters.... my baby boy turned 4!!!!

BITTER SWEET! 

We started out our Friday with a family run! Jason packed up the kids and the double jogger and we headed to the park to enjoy a hot, humid 3-4 mile run!
Jason pushed the double jogger because i'm training and he is sweet like that. He ended up doing about a 4 mile run. I did 3 miles, but I did a progressive run.
My splits were 9:51, 9:17, 9:13.

  We let the children run free after the run! They LOVE the park!

My son was running around and wouldn't stop for a picture!
We then continued the party at Green Acres. (mini golf, water wars with water balloon, bumper boats, games)

Saturday: Saturday was a BUSY BUSY day. Wedding in the morning, frosting cupcakes, cleaning, getting last minute party supplies and my sons party at the oh so lovely Chuck E. Cheese later that evening.
Saturday alone was a work out haha, A huge shout out to Jason because that mornings wedding couldn't have gone any crazier that it did. I ended up not getting home till after 1 when I planned to be home before noon!
But in the end, the day ended well with lots of pizza cupcakes and happy faces on the kids that came out to celebrate! I may not have ran on pavement, but I surely ran around Chuck E. Cheese! Hah!

Thats my grandma. Shes probably the coolest lady around!

In case anyone was wondering, my son choose a Spurs party, because we love our and believe in our Spurs. Ahhhhmen. haha. 

Sunday: Not going to lie, it was hard to get up and get out. I had 11 miles to dish out.
I traveled out to Cibolo to join a few friends on a run. It was beautiful, peaceful and a wonderful route.

I ran a total of 6 miles with Jennifer and Heather, then did my last 5 solo.

I felt great until I hit mile 8/9. The sun just peaked out enough and it got hot super quick!!

However, I tried a new fuel. UCAN. It works! Normally be mile 7, my stomach will growl and I'm just hungry. No matter how many chews, guus, gels, drinks.... I'm just flat out HUNGRY. 

UCAN definitely did the trick for me! YAY! haha. 

Sorry (but also not sorry) for the overload of pictures of my littles. This week was just crazy for us all! Hopefully everyone had a fabulous week!