Running Liv's Life

Workout: 25 minute easy run Happy Birthday to me!!  Even though my birthday was over 2 weeks ago I am just now enjoying my Starbucks birthday treat!:))  Grande decaf Pumpkin Spice Latte - YUM!!  And can I say I totally don't agree with those people that say, "I would rather eat my calories than drink them".  Nope.  No way.  I love all my Starbucks foo foo drinks;)) So here I am another year older, and a new age group to go with it!  35-39 seems so OLD!!!  Ahhhhh!  I really can't believe I am in the late thirties category.  It totally freaks me in out in a sad and slightly depressed way.  I don't do well with aging:(  Let's move on to happier things.... The birthday run!!  It was brutal.  I only did a 20 minute run, but let me tell you, pushing this beast of a bike trailer was crazy hard!!!  I was huffing and puffing at 1:47 into my run.  But, the weather was gorgeous, and Orlando had a blast so it was ...

Workout:  Speed work - .5 mile warm up, 2x800, 2x400, 4x200 - And I didn't run a cool down because my hip hurt! I hate doing speed work in the early a.m.  Getting my butt out of bed is hard enough.  Then, to drag myself outside and get my booty moving in high gear down the road is a killer way to start my day!  But, with my husband's work schedule, and the still crazy hot Florida temps it just works best.  So here is my lovely view at 5 a.m.  Dark, dark, creepy shadows, and dark. I don't use my Garmin when doing speed work in the dark.  It has a back light, but it only stays on for like 10 seconds.  There is probably a way to make it glow the entire time, but in 7 years I haven't ever looked that up in the manual.  Hmmmmm, maybe today;)  So what do I use?  Quite simple - my phone!  I always run with my phone in the dark anyway.  You know, just in case I get bit by a cotton mouth or an alligator comes out of th...

Workout:  Shoulders and Triceps video then 1 mile warm-up, 5 x 400 meter repeats with 45 seconds rest.  This was my first speed workout in a looooong time.  I was so dead after that I couldn't even run my cool down.  UGH! All running things today on the blog!! 1.  New tunes on my "Run" playlist -   Don't by Ed Sheeran - Oh my gosh!!  I love this song!!!  The beat is really fun although the lyrics  are quite sad.  Apparently it is about his relationship with Ellie Goulding and how she cheated on him (with one of the members of One Direction).  Poor guy!!  Thanks  for making a great song out of it though!;) Shake it Off  by Taylor Swift - Fun!  Fun!  Fun!!  Young Volcanos by Fall Out Boy - Ok, so I thought this song was new until I looked it up and  found out it was released last November.   Geesh!  Where have I been??  Oh well, it is new to me,  and I lov...

Workout: Workout video - Back and Biceps; Pop Pilates  Abs on Fire  - I highly recommend this video for a serious kick butt ab workout!!  13 minutes of pure torture!! The Rodeo So there's this huge rodeo every year in my hometown.  It's kind of a big deal, but I never bothered to go.  As a kid I didn't go because my parents didn't take us.  And as a young adult I never went because I thought it sounded totally lame.  On a last minute whim I decided to take my daughter.  All her cousins were going, and you know, I couldn't let her be all left out.  It turns out this rodeo is the coolest thing ever!!  I can't believe my parents didn't take us when we were younger.  Such great family fun!!  And such true patriotism showed here!  It restored my faith in Americans!!  Ahhhh, the good 'ole Midwest!:)  Of course I got suckered into a hat.  I let her get the same one as her cousin.  It lights up, a...

Workout: Strength training - shoulders and arms.  I'm going to be sooooo sore tomorrow.  I haven't done this video in about 4 months...EEK!! My baby turned 4 quite a few weeks ago, but I really wanted to post a few pictures for me, really.  I don't do big birthday parties.  They're expensive, a TON of work, and I'm just not very good at that type of thing.  So cake and ice cream it is!! The big boy with his birthday cake!  This is the first time EVER I have ordered a cake.  He really wanted a spider man cake, and I new there was no way I could pull something off on my own.  So Sam's Club helped me out;) We just played one little game, but it was a hit!!  This piece of paper cheap game from Party City was so much fun!! Oh, I love this picture of the cousins!!!  If only that dumb chair wasn't covering up Orlando:((   And after seeing those birthday questionnaires on some other blogs I read i...

Workout: 3 mile tempo, ab work Running After my race on Memorial Day I decided to take some time off from structured running.  It was wonderful!!  I ran about 4 days a week, but I only wore a stop watch instead of my Garmin, and I ran nice and slow.  My body totally needed it.  I wanted to use this time to focus on strength training and ab work.  That didn't happen....oops.  I also was going to stretch and work on flexibility.  Yeah, that didn't happen either.  After July 4th weekend I decided to pick things back up to training mode. Here is my first speed workout in about 5 weeks.  My husband and I did repeat 400s.  After the third one I thought I was going to puke!!  I was hurting bad, but I finished and was able to run them all faster than my goal time.  Yippie!! My next race:  Hmmmmm, good question.  I was originally going to run a race July 26, but I had to throw it out the window due to money, money, m...

Workout: None After running the Sandoval Goodwill 5K on Memorial Day I kept telling myself to write the race review or I would forget the details.  So now here we are almost a month later, and I have forgotten most of the details.  But, I remember the important ones.  Like: 1.  I remember that it was HOT.  No, like, really REALLY HOT!!  The race started at 7 a.m. and by 7:02 I was dying!! 2.  I remember that the course was very pretty.  The entire course was run through a gorgeous gated community.  I enjoyed the scenery the first 2 miles.  The last mile I was too tired and hot to appreciate  anything. 3.  And I remember that I felt like I was running at least a 9 minute pace the last mile.  It was so insanely hot I had nothing left in me.  I refused to look at my Garmin because I knew the slow pace would mess with my mind.  With about a quarter mile to go I decided to glance at my watch and som...