Happy Thursday afternoon, beautiful people! Hope your runs are going well. Mine are good, save for a little bit of a stuffy nose and a sore throat that I’ve been nursing. But this hot and cold weather is good weather for getting sick in, right?
Anyhoo, remember pop quizzes? I think the last one that I took was in religion sophomore year in college and the joke was on Tripp York cause I actually did the reading. And I can actually recall what the reading was about – about Disney. Scary.
So I stole this pop quiz from J at Skinny Chick Blog, but she said we could steal it, and she’s a runner too. I kept the pink font in her honor. Onto the quiz!
1. What weather do you refuse to run in?
I refuse to run when it’s icy out. We don’t do ice too often here, the sidewalks never get cleared, and as someone who has (very painfully) broken a bone before, I have no interest in doing it again.
2. What distance is your “short” run?
My short run is this like, 3 miles loop through downtown Raleigh. I think Jillian Michaels said one that 3 miles is what you need to stay fit, and I’ve always taken that to heart. I always have 30 minutes to pop a 3 miler in.
3. How do you stay hydrated while running? Water fountain, carry your own etc.
I carry my own, and sometimes stop at coffee shops and the Whole Foods to fill up my little bottle. I haven’t worn my backpack in a long time, and I’m just not yet in the mood to wear it. Handheld it is!
4. Music or no music?
Usually music. Sometimes not if I need to be alone with my thoughts.
5. Do you ever run nekkid? {Without GPS, not literally silly}
Sometimes. When I forget to charge my watch. But I love it.
6. What is the first thing you do after a run?
Grab some water, and walk the dog, since I know she’s usually been waiting on me for a while.
7. What’s your favorite running shoe ever?
You know what? I’m kind of in a shoe rut. I work for Fleet Feet, and I have every running shoe at my disposal, and I was a Brooks girl, I’ve been a Brooks girl for a while. But here’s me here….
In a NB (and the review is coming soon!) and I’m still not sure which way I’m gonna go with shoes. I’m running a half in March, and a full and a half April, and I need to figure it out ASAP, cause I don’t want to be without toenails!
8. Do you make deals with yourself to finish a tough run? What are they?
I think usually I just think about food and Austin to get me through the run. I think about pasta, beer, toast, wine, beer, and my husband-to-be when I’m toward the tail end of a long run.
9. Two things you can not run without besides kicks?
A good bra. There’s nothing better than a good bra.
Boobs!
10. Running has helped me ___________.
Be confident in myself – who I am, my skills, my abilities. I wouldn’t have had the balls to do a lot that I have in my life without running.
11. Are you following a training plan? If so, what does your weekly routine look like?
I’m following the Hanson method. Sunday I run long (but not longer than like 16). Monday I run 5, Tuesday a speed run that’s been adding up to like 8ish miles the last few weeks, Wednesday I take a break, Thursday I run 8 fast, Friday I run 5 easy, Saturday I run 5 easy and then I do it all over again. Mama is TIRED, mmkay!
12. Be honest, do you regularly stretch + foam roll post run?
I stretch. And I foam roll a few times a week, but definitely not as much as I should.
So how’d you do on the pop quiz? Feel free to lift it, answer one or two of these, or just drop in and say hi to me!
That number averaged out to about 30 minutes per day of working out, which for me, didn’t seem too hard, since I’m pretty active, but for this challenge, I focused on my old motto of sweating once a day (rather than relying on the fact that I was running for hours on end to carry me through the challenge) and I managed to complete the challenge with 2278.18 minutes, an average of about 37 minutes of activity a day.
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