Holiday Hustle Weekend Edition

I'm on my way to Sacramento, CA so I can run the California Intl Marathon on Sunday.  And since I'll kind of be out of pocket I'm posting Saturday and Sunday's Holiday Hustle Challenge Workouts today. Day 3 - Total Body Blast (Saturday 12/3) 25 repetitions of each (1 or 2 times through) Jumping Jacks …

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Race Ready

By the time I step to the starting line this Sunday morning I will have logged close to 500 miles in training. I've never actually tracked my training mileage before so it was kind of a surprise when I tallied it up. In the beginning of my training I ran with friends who helped me …

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Forward to Friday

Welcome to Day 2 of the Holiday Hustle!  Today we're only doing one move.  It's yoga but don't freak out. Standing Forward Bend It's a surprisingly simple move with great benefits; spinal decompression, balance and improves flexibility and more. First let's get you into the proper standing pose Stand with your feet hip distance apart, knees …

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Welcome to the Holiday Hustle

The holidays are prime for falling off the health and fitness wagon.  Parties, late nights, egg nog, cookies, cool or downright cold weather, you name it, it's coming. . Hence the Holiday Hustle.  A 25 day challenge to provide some healthy structure to an unstructured time of year. Contrary to what you may be expecting it's not …

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Final Full Week of Training

My final, full week of training is done. The Plan I had to do some jiggering with my schedule  this week since I was not going to do a tempo run on Thanksgiving Day.  As everyone knows, that day is reserved for our Annual Turkey Trot.   I pushed that run to Friday morning and then …

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A Turkey Trot Success

      Thank you to everyone who came out to the turkey trot yesterday!  And for braving the chilly temps, fog and muck along the levee.   You guys are awesome. Enjoy your holiday weekend and I look forward to seeing you at next year's event. Now go run! Keli 🙂

Over the Hump

My marathon is in less than 2 weeks away so I'm in what is considered a "taper" phase.  The training has peaked and now I start to scale back; both in mileage and intensity.  In theory it's so I'm rested and prepared for the race.  In my reality it's prime-time for freaking out. Am I …

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My Five Faves

Pressed for time?  Here's a quick workout featuring 5 of my favorite exercises. Jumping Jacks Squat Jumps Pushups BW Squats Plank Do each exercise for 20 seconds on/10 off.  Perform this circuit 4 times  How to do the exercises Jumping Jacks Stand with your feet together and hands at your side Jump your legs apart …

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Lucky 13

The Plan So this was the 13th week of my training.  I had a long run and some speed work tossed in to the mix.  In full disclosure, the Thursday tempo runs cause me anxiety. Speed work is my mental kryptonite. But there's no 'opt-out' button in my training.  I mean I could skip things …

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The Holiday Hustle

December 1st we'll be kicking off a Holiday Hustle Challenge.  Each day will be a different exercise, circuit, mindfulness exercise or challenge for you to tackle.   And *bonus*!  The workouts will be short, sweet and effective.    So get your Holiday Hustle on!  Check back December 1st.  Now go run! Keli 🙂