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How to make running fun

by SkinnyRunner on January 27, 2012

This morning I drove up to the Happiest Place on Earth, no, not Nordstrom’s Half Yearly, Disneyland to pick up a race bib for the Tinkerbell Half Marathon on Sunday.
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Even though I was just here in November with my family, I got lost, had to text the Queen of Disney for some help and finally made it to the expo.

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The expo’s in the Disneyland Hotel where my brother, sister and kids stayed in November, but don’t worry, I still got lost again.  I am woman, hear me roar… because I have no sense of direction.

The bib pickup was downstairs in what kinda looked a carpeted parking lot, but I met reader Liz and grabbed my bib without any hassle.

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The rest of the expo is upstairs in a convention hall: there’s lots of sparkly, lots of pink and lots of Luna bars.  I think I scored like 8 or 10 of those suckers.

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It wasn’t as big as a Rock ‘n’ Roll expo, but it was fun to take a quick look around before hitting the road.  Jeff Galloway was about to speak, but if it ain’t Josh Cox, I’m out.

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Saw Superman at the Hollywood Half Marathon booth:

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Anyone running this race?  Pam and I are and I think it’s close to being sold out so better sign up quick!

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You wanna know how to make running fun?

Run with friends.

If you don’t have any friends like me, run in a costume.

I’m making a costume for Sunday and for the amount of money and time I’ve already spent on it, I could have bought a solid gold burka.

Oh well, it’ll be fun.  I sure do love me some costumed running…

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Fourth of July race with Pam

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Rock ‘n’ Roll LA race at Halloween

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LA Holiday Half race

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Turkey trot

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Vegas.

Ever ran in a costume?

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I’m a sweaty ballerina

by SkinnyRunner on January 27, 2012

WORKOUT – Xtend barre class – 60 mins

Ran on TM – 7.1 miles/ 60 mins   1. incline

This morning I went to a 6am Xtend barre class in Mission Viejo with reader Bri who had invited me.

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I have taken one Physique 57 class and that’s it – no pilates, yoga, or anything else so I was pretty green and fresh but up for whatever.

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I loved this class.  It’s a mix of a little of everything and it is hard!  We used weights, we did some dance-type movements with the barre, we worked our cores on the mat, then stretched, and the whole class went by really fast.

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What I especially liked is that I was sweating; when we were at the barre doing squats, plies and all that jazz, my face was dripping.  You know I’m a cardio queen so I liked that I felt like not only were my muscles quivering but I was sweating too.

Of course, I had to go run a little afterwards; running makes me less crazy.

Thanks Bri for inviting me!

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You can read Bri’s review of the class; she has done a LOT of different barre classes so girl really knows her stuff.

I’m going to look around and try to find a deal and buy a month package or something to Xtend barre because I liked it that much and it should count for strength training, right??

Do you take barre classes?  What’s your favorite class you take?  Any classes you don’t like?

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Sorry Mickey, I got a new mouse in my life

by SkinnyRunner on January 26, 2012

Today I met my friend Pam for lunch at Chuck E. Cheese.  Random but it worked out well with the kids: they could play games and we could play at the salad bar.

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Free daycare and unlimited salad bar for about $7?  Are you kidding me?!  If I had kids, I’d live at the Mouse.

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Pam and Royce

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Salad trip #1.  I was doing mile repeats on the salad bar, gotta get my money’s worth.

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The place seemed small to me, but maybe it was because when we were kids, everything seemed so much bigger and awesomer.

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But I still got a game of air hockey in… and lost.

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The kids got to pick out a toy with their tickets.  I really wanted the mini slinky but Pam said no.  I threw a fit, she spanked me in the bathroom and then we walked over to froyo.

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Thanks Pam, Ryan and Royce for the fun lunch!

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*THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all of you who’ve ordered a shirt; I hope to send Julius a big check!  And I’m working on getting to everyone’s emails so thank you guys so much!

*Last chance to enter the Mizuno shoes giveaway

*I think the 50% promo code cooleronline still works for the Aspaeris compression shorts if you haven’t picked up your sexy leg sausage.

*A couple race pics from last weekend:

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Hey, this isn’t too bad; it’s kinda fun!  I spy a penny!

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Uhhh, this kinda sucks and is not fun.

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BLARCH.  Please cast me into the ocean right now.

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