Day 99: 5K Race!

Today is Father's Day and the Run 4 Your Life 5K to benefit a local prostate and breast cancer charity. It was rainy and the race started at 8:30am, so my parents, Robin and Emily M all bailed on racing with me. Luckily, I connected with Kristen, a fellow Philly Knottie and we met up and ran together which was a lot of fun.

Overall, the race went really well - the course was fairly flat and I was feeling great and I finished in 27 minutes and 20 seconds, which is a full 2+ minutes faster than my last 5K!! Though I didn't manage to stay with Kristen the entire time, she came in less than a minute after me and then we had some bananas and soft pretzels together before heading home.

I am really proud of myself for increasing my running time and really appreciative that Scott came out to support me in the rain when everyone else bailed on me. I am also really thankful that I got to meet Kristen and Tom because they were both awesome and hopefully Kristen and I will begin running together on Sundays from now on!

SO all in all, it was a very great day and I am feeling good :o)

Day 98: Chest and Back X, Ab Ripper X

I woke up early today to get my work out in and was really not feeling in the mood to work out since it was dreary and raining outside - BUT of course, I did it anyway! I was not in the mood to do ARX so I did a 20 minute ab video from On Demand to switch things up a bit before starting on chest/back and it was actually pretty challenging. Then for Chest and Back, I pushed myself hard, despite feeling tired and got in a great work out. I am continuing to use the pull up bar for modified pull ups and I definitely feel as though I am really improving my ability to strengthen my back that way. 470 calories and an hour and 20 minutes later and it is time to go and enjoy my Saturday!

Day 97: Kenpo X

Since I ended up making Wednesday of this week my rest day, today is Kenpo X. I am going to the Phillies game tonight which means I had to wake up at 5:45am to get the work out done and even with feeling sleepy and Scott trying to convince me to get back in bed, I still got up and brought it! I used weights, repeated sections as usual and I was tempted to go for a short run too but I resisted because I need to rest my legs for Sunday's race.

I burnt 483 calories after a great work out and now I am ready to start my day. GO PHILLIES!

Day 96: Core Synergistics/Short Run

After lots of running this week and a 5K coming up on Sunday, I have decided that doing Legs/Back X today is not a good idea since I don't want my leg muscles to be sore for the race. I did Core Synergistics instead since this is a great work out and focuses on the core which is a weak area for me. I am starting to hate this work out a little bit less since it now does not COMPLETELY kick my ass.

After Core I went for a short run around the neighborhood and ended up burning 528 calories total. I was pretty exhausted by the end of this work out but still feeling good! I also got 2 new pairs of work out shorts at Kohls for a great price so at least now I have some shorts that are not hanging off of me while I work out!

Day 95: REST

Wow, my entire body is sore today. My arms are still sore from Monday's work out and my legs are sore from yesterday's run. SO for the first time pretty much ever, I am actually going to listen to my body and rest today. I will just have to skip my rest day on Friday and go for a run in the morning before work since we are going to the Phillies game at night. Rest days are boring but I don't want to overtrain and then not be able to keep up with my running.

Day 94: Run, Baby Run!

In place of Yoga today I went for another run, but this time around Manayunk. I ran 5.7 miles in 60 minutes and I felt great afterwards. I wore my knee brace this time which definitely helped a lot and having my new iPod Shuffle with me instead of that gigantic iPod was also very helpful. I think I am going to be in good shape for the 5K race this weekend!

Also, I should probably mention that my arns are VERY sore today from the arm work out yesterday - especially my bis and tris. I guess it was beneficial to increase my reps so much!

Day 93: Shoulder, Triceps and Biceps, Ab Ripper X

I was a little limited today while doing ARX because my hip was sore and the hip rock and raises were irritating it so I added in some extra planks. I have to admit, I am getting a little bored with ARX and my start switching up some of the moves or adding in extras.

Shoulders, Tris and Bis continued to be as challenging as ever though! I used the 10 pound weights for pretty much every exercise, since I want to continue to tone but not get too much more muscular. I did a lot of reps with the 10 pounds though so I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to hurt!