A midwest girls pursuit of travel, fashion, food and martinis
Happy Monday everyone! Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. The weather was actually pretty decent. We went to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to see Guillermo del Toro: At Home With Monsters . It was awesome, I highly recommend checking it out especially if you love his movies. Anyway, on with Motivation Monday. Motivation is… Continue reading #motivationmonday
Happy Friday!! I am so over this week, work was crazy and my house is a disaster so I'm really looking forward to getting things back in order and relaxing. The high of my week was: Going for a run without any GI issues! Big win in my book, I even had Buffalo Wild Wings after and… Continue reading TGIF
Happy Monday everyone! This weekend didn't turn out how I was hoping weather wise (where was the sunshine?) but other than that it was good. Did get some patio drinking in which is what inspired today's post: how to stay motivated in the summer months. When the weather starts warming up and the days get… Continue reading #motivationmonday
It's Friday and I'm headed to Iowa! Going to be a good weekend. The high of my week was: Surviving the week. There was a lot going on at work that had me stressed so I was beyond relieved to walk out the door Thursday and be done with it. The low of my week was: Nothing… Continue reading TGIF
Okay so confession time: After my stress fracture I basically fell off the fitness wagon. Which is so shameful to admit when prior to that unfortunate incident I was running 16+ miles (somewhat) easy peasy. Marathon training is grueling and there are a lot of things, for me at least, that I have to cut… Continue reading Fitness
I'm a pretty big fan of strength training. In fact I switched marathon training plans because I wanted one that incorporated more strength training. I love running but running 4-5 days a week is just too much for me. Plus by the time my "cross train" day came around I was too exhausted to even… Continue reading Nike Training Club
So I have this goal to be able to do 50 push ups in a row. Right now I can eek out 10...sort of. I mean I can do a bunch from my knees but I want to be able to do the "regular" kind. Until I got into strength training my only concern for… Continue reading A push up a day…
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