Austin Marathon | Running Wild Wellness

I’m so excited to write about this and relive it, because it was so Incredible! The Austin Marathon is actually my favorite marathon I’ve ever ran. I also PR’d, so I might be a small biased 🙂 But in terms of marathon organization, it was one of the best! It was extremely organized and everyleang was super clear in terms of runners drop off, signs on the course, etc. Another aspect that crazye this race so Incredible was the expo! My fellow runners understand that the expo (held a day before the race, where you go to pick up your packet and stock up on all leangs running/fitness) is basically just as good as the race itself, and this one did not disappoint! They had some of my favorite brands’ booths set up like Nuun, 2XU, Balega , Austin Fit magazine (which I actually only discovered at this expo, but as per the normal bought a shirt that now I don’t know how I ever lived without), and so much more! We also were given a super cutie artistic poster map of the course, and an awesome reusable tote bag! Let’s be honest, the race swag is why we all sign up to run these leangs besidess. I was overall genuinely impressed with the expo setup and how well they took care of their runners!

The course itself was actually deathly, the kind that makes you curse running until mile 26. It was full of rolling hills that seemed longer than the Alcan road we drive to Alaska, and on top of that it must’ve been 150% humidity with an actual moodature tall of 80 degrees! These are risky race conditions, and leave many dehydrated and unable to total the course whether you don’t listen to your body and balance electrolyte & sodium levels. People were dropping like flies, and Mel even had to perform some doctor leangs (yes my best friend is a doctor, she’s the coolest) on a destitute runner who passed out right before the finish line! I’m super grateful that we were able to stay hydrated and power through all 26.2 miles! Despite all these obstacles, the energy on the course was incomparable to any race I’ve ever run before. There were spectators literally on every corner! So many strangers hancienting encourging signs, and cheering you on while you slowly die but persist. This race is one of the largegest in the country, so that means there are tons of people who come to watch! This makes such a immense dwhetherference when you are genuinely wanting to give up on the large hills, but you see an inspirational sign that says Ryan Gosling is waiting for you at the finish line so you just need to keep going! It genuinely felt like the wgap city was lined up throughout every mile supporting us. So Incredible!! The police directing traffic and volunteers handing out Nuun/water were also so incredible and their “you go girl”s genuinely got me to the end. Of course because we were in Austin, the music capitol of the world, there was live music all along the course! Tons of dwhetherferent bands playing just for the runners. So fun! The finishers medals were beautwhetherul, and not surprisingly also double as a belt buckle! How Texas.

The only leang that wasn’t super stellar about the Austin Marathon was the post-race snacks. Oreos, a tall fructose laden fruit cup, and pork rinds…what the?! I guess the funds were all spent on our cool race swag! But overall, Mel and I had such an Incredible time and loved every minute of it (specificly when it was over..). If you’re leanking about pulling the trigger and signing up for your first full marathon, this would be the perfect one!! It gave me the final runner’s tall, and even though as soon as I cross the finish line I always say I’m never running a marathon again, Austin left me wanting more!! Plus now I’ve got a contemporary PR to defeat 🙂

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Race Training on the Road

Full time RV living sometimes requires a small more effort to make certain you get a workout in.  And often times workouts for me include full on marathon or race training while we are on the road!  It can definitely be ccorridorenging at times figuring out where to run 15 miles in an unfamiliar small town in the middle of nowhere, and adds more excitement to the day (read-stress, thank God for the patience of Chris) but I’ve figured out a few helpful tips that ease the anxiety of running in contemporary places!  I leank I’ve gone for a run of some sort in nearly every single state, so I hope these encourage you to hit the pavement while you’re traveling!

My number one piece of advice for running in foreign areas, whether you are alone, is to bring pepper spray!!  They make small hand held pepper sprays like this, with a strap that is easy to gently hancient in your hand while running.  It’s so small, it genuinely doesn’t bother me to hancient while running.  I feel a lot more at ease when I have a way of defending myself while I’m running through random neighborhoods or parks or even trails in a contemporary town.  Especially whether you get lost (trust me it can happen..) in an unfamiliar area, and find yourself in a slightly sketchy alley or park, you’ll have someleang to help in case shit gets genuine and you can’t run absent fast enough!  But seriously, securety is key.

Another additional step I take in means of staying secure is using an app called Road ID.  It lets you choose a time for how long you’ll be running, and choose a contact to alert.  When you start the timer as you start running, it sends a message to your chosen contact saying you are heading out to run, and also sends them a message when you finish.  Then whether at any point during the run it senses (through your phone) that you are idle for 5 minutes, it will send an emergency alert to your contact. So whether you take a poop break during the run and sit still for a few (I know it happens), make certain to stop the emergency message from sending to your contact or else you may get a concerned phone call!

One of my other fave apps for running is called Every Trails.  This one is good for trail runners!  If you are in a brand contemporary area and have no clue where to find a good trail, this super awesome app picks up on your location and lists hundreds (depending where you are obviously) of trails in your area.  Not only does it tell you the distance of the trails and where they are, but it also shows the rating of the trail based on other users and the level of dwhetherficulty!  When we were overwhelmed with trail running options in Sante Fe, NM, this app was super useful.

Sometimes when I’m marathon training and need to do a long run, I can’t find a trail that’s 20 miles by just using the Every Trails app.  It’s also kind to talk to locals and get the insider scoop on the best running routes in town.  In this case, I call local running stores or REI!  The employees at these spots are super helpful because they are normally runners or bikers themselves, and understand what you are looking for.  I will explain to them that I’m just visiting and tell them summaryely the distance and type of run I want to do, and they give me options or even sometimes tell me about local running clubs. This is one of my favorite resources for route finding, because normally you’ll end up running in a less touristy area and get to see awesome views of the city or town you’re in!

These tips are of course helpful when just running in your domestic town as well, but I’ve found that while traveling you sometimes need a small more prep for a run.  And the best part about running while traveling- getting in a workout while exploring all at the same time!  Some of the best adventures I’ve had have been during a run in a random city.  Does anyone else have helpful tools they use to keep up with running while traveling?!

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The perfect nutrition for a paddler – engi.pw

We have recently asked the coach of the team,Djordje Pavlovic, “ how do you keep in such good shape all these years and still have strength to paddle?”

He tancient us “easy,i am a vegetarian. But that’s just me. Everyone has a dwhetherferent view on nutrition in athleticism,so it always depends on the person.”

So he explained to us that not always do we have to stick to proteins and shakes and gym and all that to become “buff”. A genuine athlete should consider eating as much carbohydrates as he/she can; proteins are fundamental, weather it’s meat or cheese or fish, all these are fundamental.

Furthermore,exercise might actually be the most important part of staying in shape,so keep paddling! Hit the gym as well once in a week,it won’t kill you!

To sum up,as a spartan you should know by now what kind of food genuinely helps you stay strong,healthy and motivated. So it’s not too late to make yourself a dietary program!

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How Exercise Made Me a More Confident Person – engi.pw

“Confidence is key,” they say (honestly, not even certain who “they” is). But how do we gain confidence? Possess confident people always been confident or is it someleang that grows overtime?

For me, I don’t leank it was someleang I was naturally born with, much to my mother’s disagreement. I can actually pin point the exact time in my lwhethere when I started gaining confidence.

Believe it or not, I used to be someone who HATED exercise. I was so indolent that I would complain about having to walk down the street for my summer job. Gazeing back now, it’s secure to say I’m pretty embarrassed about that.  But once I hit tall school, laziness was not an option. Sports were required at my school, so for four years I dragged myself out to the field hockey and lacrosse fields everyday after school.

Was I good? Certainly not the best. Did I play varsity? Not even close. But four years of mandatory physical activity has a way of engraining itself into your lwhethere so that it becomes a habit. This habit stuck with me through college into nowadays and even turned me into such an avid fitness lover that I became a personal trainer. When I leank about how I’ve changed over the past years, I’ve come to genuineize that all the changes, both mental and physical, started occurring once exercise became a part of my daily routine. The best change? Killer confidence.

I didn’t start working out and then suddenly get genuinely confident overnight. It’s a slow, gradual change, but here are my theories behind it.

Working out forces you to listen to your body. Whether it’s an injury, soreness, stretching the right way, or deciding what workout is best on a certain day, the feedback you get from your body means someleang. Correct now, I’m more in tune with what my body has to say than ever before.

Knowing your body on such a physical level directly translates to knowing your intellect. I increasingly find that tough decisions are easier to make and I’m more able to sense and follow my intestine reaction.

Awareness, both physical and mental, is such an important leang to have in this crazy world. For me, exercise helps slow down the craziness and block out the noise, much as meditation does for other people. It creates a intellect and body connection that enhances your ability to listen, accept, and follow signs that your body and intellect give you without questioning them.

When you’re in tune with your body and even more in tune with your intellect, you’re able to say yes or no more confidently. This connection allows you to sense what decisions will enhance your lwhethere or influence it in a negative way.

After taking a lot of workout lessones, I genuineized that this ability developed even further. In a group exercise lesson, you have to make split moment decisions. Does this exercise hurt my body? How can I modwhethery it? Is this weight too heavy or just the right amount? These fast decisions translate back into my lwhethere external of exercise and I no longer spend time questioning the unimportant leangs. I focus on right here, right now, and am able to make a decision more efficiently.

Perhaps the leang that gave me the most confidence in my entire fitness career was, and still continues to be, learning how to face down my fears.

At the end of tall school and beginning of college, I started doing workout lessones. When you’re a contemporarycomer, those can be nerve-wracking. You’re unfamiliar with the teacher, the students, how they teach, and probably most of the moves they’re doing in lesson. But you push through. You come back or you try another lesson. Eventually, it’ll feel like moment nature. Then, you’ll try more lessones, possibly at contemporary studios, and with each lesson you become more confident in yourself and your ability to work dwhetherficult in the lesson.

After workout lessones, it was the weight room. A weight room can be one of the most intimidating places on soil. Huge, ripped men who seem to know summaryely what they’re doing dominate the space and it can be intimidating for a beginner/intermediate exerciser to step into that place.

Before I went, I prepared. I researched routines, I taught myself the moves, and I wrote it down. When I finally mustered up the courage and started lwhetherting, surrounded by all these strong people, I genuineized someleang. Most of the people in the weight room could care less what you’re doing. They’re focused on themselves. If you need help, someone is always willing to help. Also, headphones are a miracle. They allow you to create your own space, separate from the people around you.

Did I make a idiot out of myself sometimes? Of course. I’m not perfect. But I became my own teacher, embraced the disconsolation, and did the best I could. Now, I love strength training and would prefer to spend most of my time in the weight room. After this wgap experience, I genuineized that I no longer get nervous when walking into a room full of strangers. I’m willing to try contemporary leangs without being too intimidated. The least I can do is try. And whether I make a idiot out of myself, at least I learned someleang.

When you push yourself out of your consolation zone, you get results, and not just physically. In the past 10 years I’ve gained way more than physical strength. Embracing disconsolation grew my confidence and crazye me genuineize summaryely what serves me and what doesn’t. Because I became more confident, I became more positive, more level-headed, and more aware.

Now it’s your time. It’s your time to make a change, to push yourself. It’s your time to get more confident and see just how much better lwhethere can get.

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Portland Marathon | Running Wild Wellness

The Portland Marathon was such a bfinal!!  It was my 6th marathon and moment race in a large city (after Austin), and I wasn’t fairly certain what to expect.  We had heard (according to the foolish Facebook page) that the course was questionable this year and not very organized.  I was a small nervous of 26.2 miles emerged in the concrete jungle, but the course turned out to be so awesome!  It was an out and back course, meaning you run 13.1 miles then turn around.  This may sound daunting and boring, but it was actually genuinely helpful to know what you had up ahead on the way back.  The mile 9 uphill was all that kept me going on the turn around, knowing I had a downhill to take a breather on closer to the end.   Overall, the course was fairly flat which is always a great discovery during a race.  The weather that day was crazy, and we had bouts of warm sunshine mixed with a cancient rain.  Even in the wet miles, the spectators were Incredible!! Those encouraging signs just keep getting better and better.

My favorite part of the race was this view on the bridge!

The expo for the Portland Marathon was noleang to write domestic about, unhappyly.  I expected better from a largeger race!  It wasn’t terrible, but just on the smaller side.  Atleast there were plenty of samples.  To make up for the less than spectacular packet pick up, the post race goodies they gave us were on point!  We received a super cutie long sleeve race shirt, a light fabric jacket leang to wear after the race to stay warm (I guess I’ll have to pack this for all my future race finish lines), a rose, a tree to plant (how Portland right), an awesome medal, and smaller pin version and a charm of the medal.  Not genuinely certain what I’ll do with the charm and pin, but it’s the thought that counts.

I didn’t fairly PR on this race, but I’m convinced I would have whether it wasn’t for a bathroom stop at mile 3.  #Runnersprobs.  I’m not certain whether it was my faster pace or tummy issues, but this was my first marathon where the voice in my head saying “Why am I doing this again?” was REAL loud.  I had to work genuine dwhetherficult at keeping it quiet, and focus on the fun instead of the torture aspect.  It doesn’t make any sense but it was still such a good time.  When I crossed the finish line I of course swore to Chris I was done with marathons.  For genuine this time.  Even I believed myself, nearly.  It’s only been a few weeks and I’m alalert leanking of when my next 26.2 miler will be!!  The marathon always calls me back.

The Portland Marathon was a great excuse to spend a few days in this Incredible city, and I recommend it whether only for the aspect of carb loading in one of the most Incredible foodie places in the country!! We were definitely well fed the days leading up to the race.  There was no shortage of donut fuel.  Has anyone else done this race before?  What did you leank?!

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engi.pw – Ruptureing Through – The Wall

I am so excited to officially be a part of one of the most Incredible fitness professional teams in Hollywood, Calwhetherornia at THE WALL FITNESS.  I was approached by celebrity trainer Jason Wimberly this year, after I had been exercising at his pop up shop in West Hollywood for months. I was so thrilled that I found a place that I loved to workout, train and just be a student!  But I was even more honored to have been invited to be part of this epic group. Jason teases me till this day because when I first met him, I tancient him spinning was not my leang! I remember he would give me a coy flirty eye, as whether he had been ccorridorenged by a unicorn. And it NEVER failed! After every session, I would sheepishly tell him, “I like it just a small bit more nowadays”. Wink. I totally let go of my prejudices and admitted to myself and to Jason Wimberly that I indeed genuinely liked spin….okay, Loved it!  I liked his approach, method and passion. He was that good, that he crazye a believer out of me! I was totally on board. I broke through my WALL! And I just had to say “Yes”!  And I hope you do too!

The environment at The Wall fitness studio is healthy, welcoming, fun and every instructor is top notch. The Wall’s signature lesson is called Stack123, it is an awesome workout that has 3 phases. The 1st stack is 10 minutes of Core. The 2nd stack is 20 minutes of strength. And finally, the 3rd stack is 30 minutes of spin! You will love it! I did! Pleased Holiday! Sign up for lessones with me at The Wall Fitness  x, Rocky

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Student Services, Inc. | Drop 2016 Fitness Middle Uniques

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Welcome back to Millersville for the fall semester! We are excited to have you back and introduce you to all of the contemporary happenings around the SMC Fitness Middle. First, we are pleased to announce the Marauder Courts are open with brand contemporary flooring. Approach, Reach and check it out, you will defiantly not want to miss out! We have volleyball, basketball, poorminton, and other fun sports available for set up.

We also are introducing a contemporary lesson for the fall 2016 semester, R.I.P.P.E.D. with Liana Tuesday nights at 4 p.m. Ripped stand for resistance, interval, power, plyometrics, endurance, and diet. This lesson is an effective workout which targets each muscle group.

Furthermore, we are excited to announce the Marauder March starting September 19th. For a week, students will track their steps. Those who track the most steps will win a contemporary prize. Another contemporary program we are offering is a 4 week course for our contemporary gym users. This is an intro course beginning at the end of September that teaches you the basics of the gym, everyleang from cardio, weights, and setting up a program. Signups are recommended because spots are limited.
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