Archives for April 2012

This week started off pretty good.  The increase in repetitions has again kicked my butt.  I struggled through the first half of the week before meeting with my Tupler physical therapist.  We continued to work on various workouts that utilize exercise bands.  These workouts are also featured on Julie Tupler’s Lose Your Mummy Tummy DVD.  She also took a significant amount of time to review my technique with the contracting and head lift exercises.  For me, the head lifts are {Read More}

This month, I became a part of Foodie Pen pals! And let me just tell you that it was like I was back in 5th grade awaiting my pen pal package! So let me start by telling you a little big about Foodie Pen pals… This idea is the baby of Lindsay over at the Lean Green Bean.  Starting with 30 pen pals in September of 2011, she has grown the pen pal fun to over 600 blogger and reader {Read More}

On April 24, 2012, I finished the first six week session of the Tupler Technique® program!  So excited!! As promised, here are some photos of this journey…And no, I can’t believe I am posting my post baby belly with stretch marks, excess skin, and crazy diastasis on the internet.  But if it gives someone the boost they need to out and try the program, then it is well worth it! Feeling the Longhorn pride during Week #5  🙂 There you have it! {Read More}

I finished up work with a little time to spare for a short run.  But you know what that means, off to the DREAD-mill to crank out a few quick miles.  Too bad the legs didn’t really feel like cooperating.  I was super tight for the first mile until the legs started to loosen up a bit.  Thank goodness because that first mile had me a little worried. Usually I am too slow to catch a treadmill pic… But I {Read More}

Lake Artemesia is my favorite place to run in College Park, MD.   This public park has great paved biking/running/walking paths (i.e. I will not get run over while running!).  It is the perfect place for my runs since there are also offshoots to other paved trails in the area.  The two main paths around the lake, 1.2 mile and 1.4 mile loops, are where I spend the majority of my time running.  Today, I brought Cora to Lake Artemesia for {Read More}

I managed to get in my long run since it just didn’t happen on Sunday; you can read about that here.  I wasn’t really in the mood to run but it was great weather so that motivated me to get outside and get moving.  Good thing I got my butt out there because I did not want to go another week before upping my mileage. Miles:  8Time:  1:10:48Pace:  8:51 This training cycle is going well so far.  Only 7 weeks left until Zooma {Read More}

Two great runs despite lots of rainy weather on my trip this weekend. On Saturday, I planned to go out for an easy 3 miler in prep for my Sunday long run.  Well, I ended up running a bit faster than I planned.  I just felt really good and running along the beach was oh so nice. Miles:  3.03 Time:  25:37 Pace:  8:27 That being said, Sunday was NOT meant to be a long run day.  Cora had trouble sleeping {Read More}

If you are like me, then you probably have a growing collection of old sneakers.  A friend that is all about recycling suggested that I look into ways for others to re-use my shoes.   Here are a couple cool organizations that collect and recycle running shoes!  Talk about an earth friendly SOLE-lution to help empty your closet. Shoe Image Courtesy of Nike’s Reuse-a-Shoe Program Share Your Soles:  Collect, clean, and distribute “gently used” shoes around the globe Nike’s Reuse-a-Shoe: {Read More}