or so I thought… Trying to get my mojo back but honestly I feel tired and sluggish and yup.. kinda fat. So today I figured I would get some hill repeats in. This is my neighborhood hill. I did 12 repeats followed by 10 minutes of jumprope, 3- 30 second planks, 50 squats and 50 pushups. A little something to get this old body back into gear.
I am getting ready for the Brooklyn Half and while I have not been training like I am ready to PR, I have been trying to figure out my nutrition plan for the race. I am currently loving Power Bars Energy Bites. They taste like candy and do give an added boost, as I also used them to energize prior to the 10k two weeks ago. I was introduced to them by Nutrition Fix an online source for sports nutrion and supplements. Along with Powerbar they carry tons of other items that I have heard great things about.
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Quick 5k before the rain. Its been 2 days since I’ve run. 10 miles Saturday and then today. I have the BK half this Saturday so I am trying to keep the legs nice and loose.
The winner according to random.org of the Cheribundi tart cherry juice is Eve. Congrats and happy drinking. Hit me up via email so we can get your mailing address and get this out to you.
Big thanks to everybody who participated, more giveaways to come!
I had a laidback Mother’s Day. He is the reason I celebrate. My mom is long gone and no grands to speak of, sister living the family life in Florida. How was your day?
I am so not the girly girl type, frilly dresses not my thing until Spring hit this year and I saw them everywhere. Last year was the first year in a long time that I had a slimmer and trimmer me. Why not reap the benefits of all the running and show off a little skin. So I am trying to step out of my comfort zone and go a bit girly mixed with my boh tomboy edge, if you will.
Anyhow saw this dress and thought it would be so cute on some girl and figured hey why not try it. What do you think? My sister hates it, but I kinda like it and feel all girly inside thinking about wearing it with some heels and denim jacket on a cool summer night. Date somebody?
I just realized I ran a race on Sunday and forgot to share my adventure. Let me say it now, I kicked rocks! The night before I stayed up to watch the Cotto X Mayweather fight ate a bit too much (you see the smile on my face as I am making my plate.) and didn’t make it to bed until 3:30.
Needless to say because I was out all day before going to the fight party, (started the day off with my teenagers that Saturday doing community service with Habitat for Humanity and then going bowling) I did not make time to do my laundry. So you see me here in my souvenir race tee from the Nike Marathon and pink and black capris. Oddly enough Rose and I did not take pre or post race pictures at this race, so you know something was up.
The race was very small as you can see the entire group of 5k and 10k runners fit in what would be the equivalent of a corral at a larger race.
They had lots of fun stuff for the kids as well as a kiddie race and clowns. I am not going to spend a lot of time bemoaning the race. My biggest issues were that it did not start on time, they did not have real waterstations ( it was a short race, I can make it 6 miles without a drink) and they kept telling you to wait around for the finishers medals and never gave them out. They did however have great goodie bags, a nice souvenir tech tee, and friendly staff. The race was hilly and super challenging. With little sleep and energy I eeked out the hilly behind 10k in 1:05 wich is a 10:30 pace and about 5 -6 minutes longer than it should of actually taken me. No crying over finished races. On to the next one. BK half here I come!
Hey Beauties. I have been MIA for about a week, processing, thinking plotting my take over but I come back today with some new found knowledge and a giveaway.
I have never been a fan of the cherry, so I never thought twice about drinking cherry juice although I have heard of its great benefits. Dr. Oz shared the benefits of tart cherry juice here.
Cherry juice and most importantly tart cherries are known to relieve pain and inflammation as well as reducing the risk factors of heart disease. So when Cheribundi offered me the opportunity to sample an assortment of their tart cherry juice drinks which range form 92- 100% juice I figured why not.
I love love love the Ginger Cherry, I am a ginger lover so the combination of ginger and cherry worked for me.
The skinny cherry is tasty lighter in calories with only 90 but equally as tart and delish.
Tru Cherry was delightful and something I would definitely like to use as a faux cocktail and mix it with seltzer and a twist of lime especially during race weekends when I am not drinking.
Now the Cocoa cherry was not my cup of tea, I dont like chocolate covered cherries so this falls in the same vane for me.
The Whey Cherry I drank today since it is touted as more of a recovery drink, lighter in calories than most whey drinks and heavy on the protein. It was weird at first taste because I didn’t expect it to be so thick, however very good and probably along with the ginger,the one I would most likely purchase.
All in all you can call me a fan I have been drinking a bottle a day, one day 2 (I got greedy). The lovely people at Cheribundi are going to give one of my readers a case. So you too can share in the cherry goodness or share your thoughts
To enter simply leave a comment about what you know about tart cherries or why you would like to try it and on Monday I will use random.org to announce a winner. Good luck.
Happy Monday Beautiful Athletes. Sorry for the late post, hope you had a great weekend. Anybody run any races they would like to share?
Rose and I finally met up for a long run, we got in 10 miles along the Putnam Trail, that was my first run over there. It is pretty nice and I hear it runs about 25 miles so it will definitely be a marathon training route. I coached my Little League team, they lost both games, but I love working with the beginners the underdogs.. we shall prevail!
Today I ran with my friend Aloma from Black Girls Run (Bronx), I showed her my Pelham route. We took it really easy and chatted it up enjoying the beautiful homes.
I really love Pelham and have dreams of having babies, marrying a beautiful man, running a business, and entertaining in a house very much like this.
The streets are just beautiful and treelined, a joy for my eyes a pain for my allergies.
I stop to smell the roses, well flowers, lol.
As you can see I am looking a little fluffy up top, lol
As it stands right now I have two races coming up on my race calendar. In the perfect world I feel like I would race two times a month even short distances just to stay fresh and to keep my body in race mode. However nothing is perfect and races cost. In May I will be running two races, the Riverdale Y 10k on May 6 and the Brooklyn Half Marathon on May 19. By the way who is the cutie on the Bk Half homepage, wouldn’t mind running into him. Ha! I am excitedly anticipating both races.
I can’t say that I am in my best race shape, but what better way to get there than to race. I have put on a few pounds over the course of this year, staying up late and eating bread, I had way more cocktails on the weekends than I have ever had in my life ( 1-2 drinks a week over the last few months) grant it, I am a lightweight and it may seem insignificant but they add calories, and a bit of undo stress have attributed to this gain. I have also indulged in way more sugar than I have been over the past 2 years. Today I decided to get it together and work on being consistent.
I am looking forward to the races to get a good base to compare to future races when I am in even better shape. I had a great 6 mile run today and mixed it up with some strength training. I worked in 140 lunges and 100 squats with 10- 20 pound weights along with bicep curls and a few other arm exercises. In the words of the illustrious Spongebob “I’m ready, I’m ready”
What do you have planned for May?
