While I was looking for an Obstacle Course Race (OCR) to test my boot camp fitness, I stumbled upon the Dirty Dozen Trail Obstacle Course Race at the US White Water Center in Charlotte. I thought this was perfect: a smaller, cheaper, local OCR to try before desperately trying to convince my friends to compete…
I was not looking forward to this race. I started to regret signing up for it a couple weeks before, as you could maybe tell from my post about training. The week of the race I’d been sick most of the week, and the night before I was on the verge of talking myself out…
October 9, 2016, Brooklyn. This was only my second Rock N Roll event, but it was my fourth or fifth half in this area of Brooklyn. The last RnR event I did was also around Prospect Park – it was a 10k in 2013- and had a lot of the same elements. RnR events set…
Back in December when we were setting our fitness goals for 2016, I said I wanted to run a 10k in the summer and a half marathon in the fall. I ran the NYRR Women’s Mini back in June, and I’ll be doing the Rock N Roll Brooklyn Half this coming Saturday. So I’ve been training since…
While I was nursing my 11 week old at 3:44AM my fiancé shared this article with me about #fitmoms and I immediately wanted to write a response because I totally considered myself a #fitmom – that was like three months ago. That’s my #fitmomreality. So this article, in summary, is basically highlighting the trend(?) of…
I’ve started counting macros lately and I STRUGGLE to hit my protein goal every single day. Luckily, a Burn Boot Camp trainer introduced me to these protein oat cookies. They use one of my newest obsessions: Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips. They’re made of only 3 ingredients that you can pronounce, taste just like the chocolate…
One of the things I’ve struggled with the most during my time during training and racing is overcoming the voices inside my head. They tell me I’m too tired to finish this set, I’m going to die in the pool (happened during 90% of my swim practices) and my legs/arms/abs are physically incapable to continue…
For my birthday present this year my sister purchased a GroupOn for us to try a month of unlimited classes at Burn Boot Camp, this crazy work out studio her friend had been going to religiously for over a year. Burn Boot Camp is a fit community of Moms, but I (a childless aunt) was…
It’s a desire I’ve had for a long time. When I left for NYC in June 2010, I gave myself 5 years. At the age of 22, five years seemed like an eternity. As that milestone came and went, it was still in the back of my mind. The night my dad was diagnosed with…
I was scheduled to compete in the Escape The Cape International distance triathlon this weekend. It was going to be my triumphant return after recovering from my ankle tear that I exacerbated by training on for a year before stopping. I was going to jump off a ferry boat into the water and have the…
