Category Archives: Fitness

Giving It All I Can

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This is not related to the rest of the post, but this morning I tried this spinach feta and egg white wrap. It is not the spinach feta wrap from Starbucks that I spend nights dreaming about (no, seriously), but it was good. (New Yorkers, it’s from Chicken Deli. I couldn’t resist joining the offer order when I heard the name.)

I’m off to D.C. to run half marathon #11.

11’s my lucky number, so I should be more excited, but I’m sort of ambivalent about this actual race–which is not a fun feeling to have. My coworkers wished me luck as I left work, but I felt like a fraud accepting their good luck wishes.

I’m excited, as always, to toe the line, but I’m not expecting much. I’m going to run with Tina, who’s equally not feeling this race, and we’re going to run as hard as we safely can while still having fun, because that’s all we can do right now.

But…despite the fact that I’m not expecting much, I still couldn’t help but plug some race times into good ole’ McMillan.

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He (personally, obviously) said I could run a 1:56 half tomorrow, based on my time from the Gridiron Classic. He’s clearly smoking crack, but I’ll be happy with anything under 2:00. Breaking 2:00 is still so new to me that it will still be exciting.

And that’s all I got. I didn’t train my hardest, and I’m not expecting a PR, but still hoping for the best and a fun race and weekend.

Good luck to everyone else running this weekend!

Tonight I Watched a Bunch of People Work Out

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Tonight, I helped host a blogger event for DailyBurn, one of my clients.

And I survived.

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Nut styling courtesy of my lovely coworker, Lizzie. (Aren’t those little cups adorable?)

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The event was a Hunger Games-themed workout, and everyone worked out to one of the DailyBurn videos, Animal Core.

Because I needed a rest day, and because I thought helping coordinate an event and then hopping into the workout might be a bit much, I just stood in the back and chilled, taking pictures. (If by chill, you mean taking four million deep breaths while hoping everything went smoothly. Then yes, I was totally chill.) During the first few minutes, I thought maybe I should have just hoped in, but the workout looked pretty hard, and I was happy for a rest day.

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Lisa Wheeler, DailyBurn’s fitness program director, led the workout and answered questions for everyone afterwards. You probably can’t see them very well, but she had some pretty hot gold sneakers on.

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Laura, Ashley, Erica, some weird chick, Sam and Cat. Check our their blogs in the next few days if you’re interested in the workout. (And Melissa and Megan’s blogs, too.)

Also, Cat is so much taller than I expected. She may be the only blogger I’ve ever met who is taller in real life.

Thank you so much to everyone for coming! I hope everyone had a good time and got a good workout in. And I hope my worlds keep colliding like this.