Friday Five

Friday Five 2.0 – Spring fitness goals

Friday Five 2.0 is hosted by bloggers Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness.  This week’s topic is “Spring fitness goals”. This is an easy topic because I’ve already blogged about my 2018 running goals.   So it’s probably a perfect time to update you on how I’m doing so far. 2018 Goals: PR in a 5k:  DONE.  I PR’d during…

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USA Fit Houston

Two runs in one day — that’s a first!

Two runs in one day completed.  Who would have thought that I would ever do that!   A few days ago, my friend Jennifer said she was feeling better and would like to resume running with me on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  (We’ve run together a few times recently and we used to run together as part of the Luke’s Locker training…

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Running

USA Fit Houston first week done!

USA Fit Houston training has been good so far.  I finished my first week of training and I have to admit that it isn’t easy for me.  The first Saturday was the 3 mile time trial and I’ve already blogged about that experience.  Suffice it to say that I spent most of the rest of that day getting warm then…

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fastest run

Double run weekend x2

Double run weekend two weekends in a row! My running schedule has been pretty steady since I first started running.  I run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and once on the weekends.  This seems to be about what my body can handle as I’ve never really been injured and I’ve been running over 2 years now.  For the past 2 weekends, however, I…

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Skirt Sports

Skirt Sports Ambassador 2018 – I’m in!

I am now officially a Skirt Sports Ambassador for 2018!  I’m so excited to finally announce this and share my good news! I applied for the ambassadorship in December as a lark.  I figured that I love blogging about running, I love running, I love sharing my running adventures and I love running in skirts, so I might as well…

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beginner, newbie runner, Running

New Year’s advice for newbie runners

Newbie runners – New Year’s Advice.  This advice may be helpful for someone who has NEVER run (like me when I started, aka “Newbie runner”) or someone who is looking to add running to their current fitness routine. 1. SHOES (& socks) – do not start running until you have good running shoes. It will be next to impossible to…

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Running

20 October 2015: The beginning…

My sister is amazing and she is a runner.  I’m not sure if she calls herself a runner, but she is.  And she is my inspiration.  She has completed several 5k’s and has signed up for a 5k/10 duo on January 2016 and a 10k/half-marathon in May 2016.   I, however, can’t even run down the street to our YMCA,…

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