I am officially 20 days out from this event! This past week of training was recovery week. I began implementing recovery weeks after following my training plan from Runfit 365. I noticed a big difference in my performance and my level of endurance after completing one of these every 2-3 weeks of hard training. Recovery … More Iron Girl Training Recap: Week 3
Happy first day of Spring! This week’s topic for the Friday Five is five things about Spring. I struggled a bit with this topic at first because all I thought about when I first heard Spring was the topic for this weeks discussion, I couldn’t help but my first thoughts be about how the weather … More Spring is here!
Today I’m joining Erika from MCM Mama Runs, Patty from My No-Guilt Life, and April from Run the Great Wide Somewhere for the Tuesdays on the Run Linkup. This week’s topic is all about our Good Luck Charms or Rituals for Races! I don’t really have any good luck charms or a lucky pair of … More Rituals for Race Day!
Week 2 is in the books! I don’t know about all of you, but the time change seriously had me thrown off last week. What was a typically 5am alarm to get my run in before work, was a 4am alarm internally, and my body has made sure to let me know around 3pm. Lol. … More Iron Girl Training Recap: Week 2
After running last week’s speed workout and seeing the results I did, I remembered just how much speed work helps! Incase you missed it, I ran my fastest 5K coming in at exactly a sub-30 AND my fastest mile – all in the same workout. Speed work, also known as a fartlek (Swedish for “speed … More Speed Work. It can help.
Well, last weekend I took the plunge and registered for Iron Girl Clearwater! This was my first ever half marathon and here I am returning to the event as my fourth half in a year! Those bridges are a beast so I am hoping to include more inclining training this time around. I would love … More Iron Girl Training Recap: Week 1
Move Nourish Believe is the active living philosophy of Lorna Jane. I had never even heard of it till it become the [optional] topic for this weeks The Fit Dish link up. I’ve been MIA on this link up for the last few weeks so it feels good to be linking back up with Jessica … More Move. Nourish. Believe.
The topic for this week’s Friday Five hosted by the DC trifecta ladies is Free Friday. For my Free Friday post I am taking it back a few weeks to a post I missed about our five fitness snapshots. I started the drafting the post but life got in the way and I never got … More Friday Five: Five Fitness Snapshots
Sunday morning was the Princess Half Marathon and part II of the Glass Slipper Challenge (you can read part I here.) I was feeling pretty good despite only having a combined total of 8 hours of sleep between the Friday and Saturday and then walking around Universal Saturday afternoon. We left our hotel at about … More Race Recap: Disney Princess Half Marathon
This weekend I participated in my first ever RunDisney event – the Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend presented by Children’s Miracle Hospital Network. I drove over on Friday afternoon with Court and met Danny and Sam at the packet pickup/expo. The packet pickup process was seamlessly easy and I loved how RunDisney allowed you to … More Race Recap: Disney Enchanted 10K