Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Marina to the Canyon.
Time is flying.
Each day has a way of slipping by, building up momentum, and quickly siphoning itself on to the next. I literally need to try and take each day in the palm of my hand, get a good grip, and squeeze the most out of it that I can.
While slowing myself down can be a good thing, I have definitely cooled it on the intense sweating each and every day. When my 30 day challenge finished, a new one began - not giving myself the free pass of settling into the previous back and forth and uncertainty of moving my body or not.
This was a better week of meeting myself in the middle. Compromise. Days of rest balanced with exerting myself and pushing my body. And, the best but most exhausting part, is the exertion includes more than just sweating - but also jumping outside of the box and getting farther away from my comfort zone with a multitude of other things.
I'm hoping to improve a lot more than just my body.
Here's to a week of both highs and lows, but an overall move in the right direction.
Good food. Paddle Boarding. BBQ. Long runs. Brand spankin' new compression socks.
Each day has a way of slipping by, building up momentum, and quickly siphoning itself on to the next. I literally need to try and take each day in the palm of my hand, get a good grip, and squeeze the most out of it that I can.
While slowing myself down can be a good thing, I have definitely cooled it on the intense sweating each and every day. When my 30 day challenge finished, a new one began - not giving myself the free pass of settling into the previous back and forth and uncertainty of moving my body or not.
This was a better week of meeting myself in the middle. Compromise. Days of rest balanced with exerting myself and pushing my body. And, the best but most exhausting part, is the exertion includes more than just sweating - but also jumping outside of the box and getting farther away from my comfort zone with a multitude of other things.
I'm hoping to improve a lot more than just my body.
Here's to a week of both highs and lows, but an overall move in the right direction.
Good food. Paddle Boarding. BBQ. Long runs. Brand spankin' new compression socks.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Pedal on the Pier.
Today was the day - Pedal on the Pier!
With shoulders scalding red, eyes that can barely stay open, and exhausted legs, I'd say I had a pretty incredible experience today spinning on the Santa Monica Pier.
My back is seriously sizzling right now.
As usual, whoops.
Our team, No Motor Just Heart, began the 6 hour festivities in style. While everyone rolled in fashionably late, our team was ready to go bright and early. Immediately, we made our way to the spin bike reserved just for us......bike #69.
Fitting.
We had quite the enthusiastic group. Rachael was especially excited to start the day...
Next, It was time to represent team Motor and show off our style for the day. I am proud to say we were the only team with personalized, custom race bibs. Especially ones with stickers that included a multitude of dog breeds on them. Guess who made the bibs??
With about six crazy DJs, including one who decided to make up his own raps for about an hour, tons of food, enough coconut water to last you a lifetime, and a pier full of positive and amazing people- the 100 mile adventure began.
Maddie kicked off the group, Danielle followed second, Rachael third, me fourth, and an already sweating Matt last. Of course our group would be the sole pod to simply "find" extra spin bikes around our reserved one and get in some extra miles while the other was pedaling. Like 40 miles - extra miles. We're not workout obsessed, we're just motivated.
Maybe. Haha.
After about 5 hours of pedaling (we honestly each rode about two hours on separate bikes), the ride finally culminated. The foundation reached it's goal of $500,000, we raised $3,380 of that (big kudos to Maddie), and we left sweaty, salty, and happy.
We couldn't have had a better team.
Good Sunday.
With shoulders scalding red, eyes that can barely stay open, and exhausted legs, I'd say I had a pretty incredible experience today spinning on the Santa Monica Pier.
My back is seriously sizzling right now.
As usual, whoops.
Our team, No Motor Just Heart, began the 6 hour festivities in style. While everyone rolled in fashionably late, our team was ready to go bright and early. Immediately, we made our way to the spin bike reserved just for us......bike #69.
Fitting.
We had quite the enthusiastic group. Rachael was especially excited to start the day...
Next, It was time to represent team Motor and show off our style for the day. I am proud to say we were the only team with personalized, custom race bibs. Especially ones with stickers that included a multitude of dog breeds on them. Guess who made the bibs??
Maddie kicked off the group, Danielle followed second, Rachael third, me fourth, and an already sweating Matt last. Of course our group would be the sole pod to simply "find" extra spin bikes around our reserved one and get in some extra miles while the other was pedaling. Like 40 miles - extra miles. We're not workout obsessed, we're just motivated.
Maybe. Haha.
After about 5 hours of pedaling (we honestly each rode about two hours on separate bikes), the ride finally culminated. The foundation reached it's goal of $500,000, we raised $3,380 of that (big kudos to Maddie), and we left sweaty, salty, and happy.
We couldn't have had a better team.
Good Sunday.
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