Saturday, April 1, 2017

Sweaty Saturday, Funny Stuff and a BIG Challenge

Welcome to April!

Since I've been running A LOT more lately, it feels appropriate to talk about my stats up until now.

January - 3 runs 4.30 miles

February - 4 runs 9.80 miles

March - 8 runs 27.18 miles

Whoa, March! I like the way you look!!

I'm starting April feeling positive and healthy and I'm super excited to find a 5K to enter sometime soon. Oh, and I ran today.

Today's run was fantabulous! I finally got to run on a sunny day and I ran more than 4 miles ---> 4.73 to be exact. My longest run in 2017.


I ran the same route that I did with mrC a couple days ago, except today I also did an out and back on the promenade. My intervals were the same 90:60 seconds run/walk and everything felt really good. I think I'm going to stick with this interval for another week before increasing the run time again.

A funny thing happened in the beginning of my run. My phone rang. It was mrC calling from Thailand and since we hadn't spoken since yesterday, I had to answer. I love FaceTime. If you have it, feel free to call me 😍

After my run I did my 5 essential stretches for happy legs. I must not have stayed in my glute stretch long enough after Bodystep class yesterday because my butt was really sore when I got up this morning and it's only gotten worse since my run.


I'm really happy with today's run. The only thing that could have made it better is a running partner.

If you've followed this blog for more than a couple of years (first a BIG thank you for that!), then you know that I loved running with my dog, Booney. And boy, did he like to run, too.


I saw this on Twitter today and it made me think of him. He would have loved his own pair of running shoes. It's so nice of Brooks to think of our furry running buddies, don't you think?


In other (serious) news, I'm thinking of doing a burpee challenge. 30 burpees a day for 30 days. Seriously. This is not a joke. Want to join me??? I'm going to start on Monday. I could probably start today, but then I might be ahead of you. ;) 


I made a calendar that you can download to mark off each day you do your 30 burpees with me. We should probably have a hashtag because all challenges have one. So share your progress with me on Instagram or Twitter and tag me @runningescapade #30for30burpees ---> I promise to cheer you on.


I'm also doing 30 days of April yoga with Adriene and her awesome videos. You can find all the details on this website or just go right to the video playlist here.

Here's a glimpse of day 1: 58 minutes of Shakti Power Flow. This is goddess pose near the end of the session and my quads were SCREAMING! I'm pretty sure my arms/hands are wrong because I couldn't hear over the pain in my legs, haha.


April is going to be a fun month, right?


Do you like April Fool's Day jokes?
What are your sweaty Saturday plans?
Goals/plans for April?









6 comments:

  1. You know what? I might join you on the burpee challenge. Idk if I can do thirty all at once, but I've been thinking about doing more burpees anyways. I hate them and I figure conquering them is the only way to get over that! My coach will be speechless...

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    1. Awesome! We can totally do this. Oh, and I plan to break them down. Maybe three sets of 10 with a rest between? PS I hate them too!

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  2. Burpees and me do NOT get along. I've had an ongoing piriformis/glute/hammy thing, and burpees totally feel like something's gonna snap loose (and I feel like I'm gonna totally scream as a result). Somehow, I lost track of your blog...(?). I'm gonna try to pay better attention ;-)

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    1. Oh jeez! Don't do burpees!!! Instead send all your positive vibes my way. I'm going to need all the encouragement I can find to do this ;) Thanks for finding me!

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  3. 30 burpees a day is a serious challenge! Burpees and I are just not friends, but I'm happy to cheer you on ;) So glad to hear you're running more!! Yay!

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    1. I know! In a couple of days I might be regretting announcing this publicly, haha! I'll take your cheers any day. Thanks, Michelle!

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