If you’ve hung out on the blog since last year, you’ll know I normally do this thing called “No Fun February”. For the past three years, I have completed my own monthly health and money challenge during February (yes, the shortest month of the year). The concept evolved from a no-spend month one of my best friends, Jesse, did back in college. The objectives of No Fun Feb are to eat healthier, cut back on alcohol, not go out as much and save some money. But this year I decided not to partake and this is why. (TBH, it should be obvious).
Read More >>No Fun February 2020: Recap
Happy March! No Fun February is officially over! I’m ready for the fun to resume. But before I really start this post, I need to be totally honest…I did not do the best I could during No Fun Feb. But I’m not about to beat myself up about it. Here’s my recap:
Read More >>My Plan for No Fun February 2020
Is it almost February already? Wow, I guess that means it’s time to really get my ish together. If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that every year I do a “No Fun February” Here is my original post for NFF and here is last year’s post. Each year I tend to shift my goals for NFF and that is why I am really excited to talk about my plans and ambition for this month’s challenge.
Read More >>Gifts For The Girl Working On Her Fitness
I be up in the gym just working on my fitness, he’s my witness oooo weeee
I love making fitness gift guides because as someone who tries to go to the gym 4 times a week, I’m always looking for some chic, fun fitness finds for myself. So naturally I would like to share them with you. Below are the links to this fitness gift guide!
Read More >>3 Workout Classes I’ve Been Loving Lately (And One I Didn’t)
So lately I have been trying out a bunch of work out classes because I recently discovered something awesome about most of them: first class is free! I know so many gyms are allowing people to try them out totally for free, so my mindset is: why not?! I would like to try out as many as I can, but for now I have done a class (or more) at Orange Theory, Pure Barre, Title Boxing and CorePower Yoga. And while 3 of these were awesome…there was one I just wasn’t a fan of.
Read More >>My Second Half Marathon and Marathon Month at Orange Theory
This month… has completely exhausted me. I have known since January that I was going to run my second half marathon at the end of April, but what I hadn’t planned on then was that I would also be running a total of 26.2 miles this month at Orange Theory. I thought this month would be easy and carefree… but ugh was I wrong. Here’s how this month went:
Read More >>Life Update
I have been a very bad blogger lately. For a couple weeks there I was doing pretty good with writing and promoting a lot of content…but as of late, life has really pushed blogging to the back burner. This happens every once in a while! That being said, I wanted to give you a little update on what I’ve been up to and what I’m excited about in the next few weeks.
Read More >>Eating for a Half-Marathon
It’s officially April and I’m 4 weeks out from my second half marathon. I think I’m going to do another month of “no fun” just to make sure I’m fueling my body for those 13.1 miles and all the training leading up to it. This past weekend I ran a very slow 8 miles outside because it was beautiful out. I wish I had done a little better on speed, but my training isn’t perfect and I still have time to improve! Lately I’ve been focusing on making sure I am eating properly for training, because last year I definitely was not. I would literally eat like a salad 6 hours before a 10 mile run and then I would wonder “Why am I so tired?” or “Why couldn’t I run as far?” Ugh. I definitely learned my lesson. Diet is one of the most important aspects of training! My biggest thing: Carbs are your friends!
Read More >>My 10 Week Half-Marathon Training Schedule
So I’m posting this a little late but I’ve been training for a half-marathon for the past few weeks. I started around the 10 week mark and have been trying to increase my distances a little every week, while also doing other work outs. I’m around 8 weeks out now and can run around 5 miles no problem, but I would like to get up to 10 miles before my race, which is on April 27th. I ran the same half-marathon last April and finished with a time of 2 hrs and 38 minutes. My goal this year is to get under 2 hrs and 30 minutes, so here is my current training schedule.
Read More >>No Fun February: 2019 Recap
Phew! Is it me, or did the shortest month of the year feel like it went on forever?! Happy March everyone! No Fun February is officially over and I am both proud of what I accomplished and relieved to be able to have some fun! Here is a short recap of what I did, didn’t do and what I’m looking forward to in March.
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