My Road to Disney Princess Half Marathon

It has been a few days since my last post..... but it has been a crazy busy week.  Friday was a great start to the day with Day 3 of Camp Gladiator, I am so loving these classes.  I am impressed on how well I did during their hardest week of training in 4 weeks.  I felt great and can't wait to go back and train more.  I Saturday I did my usually run in Safety Harbor and shaved about 10 minutes off my 5 mile time and then on Sunday I shaved another 5 minutes of that time, so with any luck I can run my 10k this week in 1 hour 10 minutes that is my goal.  I have been still using the AAPtiv 10k training app on those runs, the Tempo runs and Interval runs and Speed Work Runs have been really helping on my overall running game.....  Well this I will continue doing my lunchtime workouts and any extra gym time workouts I can fit in.  Going to get some extra runs in this week, since there is not Camp Gladiator till Friday.  Then bring on Sunday with the ...

What a week this has been.  When I was at the race on Saturday they had tables with vendors as they always do, the Camp Gladiator was there, I will say that I won a free membership for a session last year and went, but wasn't that impressed with the coach and her plan.  Well they were running a special so my mom and I decided to try this out again with a new instructor.  They are letting us start a bit early before the next session starts, which is great we get a little but more of the experience.  Monday was definitely different but the routines and the coach were awesome and couldn't wait to go back on Wednesday.  Well I did go back on Wednesday and the experience was just as good as Monday, so I will continue through the program and get just a little bit more fit.  Along with the Camp Gladiator I am doing my regular workout routines and running.  The lunch time crew still goes forward daily with the workouts, it is so great to have someone to workou...

I wasn't sure when I went to bed last night if I was going to run this morning,  I wasn't feeling very well my stomach was yelling at me last night.  After trying to relax I was able to fall asleep but tossed and turned most of the night.  Well that being said, I laced up the saucony's and hit the pavement to get this run in.  It was a bit rough from all the energy I put into yesterdays PB&J 5k but I knew I had to hit the pavement and keep going.  I went a head and used the Aaptiv app to do a tempo run and some sprints.  My legs did want to give in at some point but I kept moving forward, I was getting 6 plus miles in today no matter what......  We did run through Safety Harbor down to Gulf to Bay and then across to Del Oro Park and back to downtown Safety Harbor.  There were quite of few runners this morning, but not as many as on a Saturday.   My legs were pretty sore from my push yesterday, but I also worked 7 hours yesterday afternoon...

AHHH Saturday and back to racing....  That hurricane named Irma really threw things off track, but I am back at and focused.  I was hoping for at 33:00 finish time but it was 34:22, only I few more seconds then my last 5k.  I will take it, the bridge did me in on the way back a bit, I am used to running out to the beach and then back so there is usually a bit of a break on the hitting that hill twice.  All and all it was a good race and very organized for a 1st annual race.  So on to more training and the next race on October 7th, Pretty n Pink 5k.  If I haven't said I love running with family and friends it makes things so much fun..  Stay cool and I will be hitting the road in the morning......

It has been a busy crazy week....  Lots going on especially preparing for my 5k in the morning.  This will the 1st annual PB&J Race in Clearwater, so this should be a good one.  I did some a lot of double workouts this week, building strength in my legs.  As always did you use the Aaptiv workouts along with some of my own experience this week.  I swear by the classes and the instructors they really make you work for what you want......  I like the challenges and never though I would be do a stair climber backwards.  Through all this I have managed to drop a solid 5 pounds and keep it off which helps with the running in the end. I will be making sure that add my results from Athlinks, it is so nice to have all your information in one place.  I love the homepage where I have my best times in each category from 5k to 10k and more.  It is great to check it all out at once.  Here is the link to check out https://accounts.athlinks...