I may complain a lot about the Minnesota winter this year, but its not ALL bad. In fact, on Sunday, after returning from Anandale (where I was for all the bachelorette fun) Dustin and I took Matilda to the Minnehaha dog park....Yes, she is wearing a cowl neck sweater. The Right Fit in dog fashion?By the way, today is Matilda's 5th birthday. She has brought so much joy to our lives over the past 5 Continue Reading
Fit Challenge: 26 Day Sit Up Challenge
I'm a little behind with March's challenge, so it won't be quite a 30 day challenge. It will be a 26 day challenge!I have a beach vacation coming up, so that means I have to bare it all in a bikini. After hiding under multiple layers during this Polar Vortex, imbibing in all those hearty winter beers, and indulging in a little too much comfort food, I'm not all that excited about "bikini time." Continue Reading
Fitting Remarks: Top 10 Worst People to Run Next to on a Treadmill
In my weekly recap from yesterday, you probably noticed that there was a lot of treadmill miles...in fact, all 45 miles of last week's running were on a treadmill- eeks! Not fun.Though I started to get kind of used to the ol’ treadmill, I can't say I have learned to love it. I definitely prefer to run outside. It was a lot of time indoors pounding out the miles, but it did give me a lot of time to Continue Reading
Weekly Recap: Last Week of February and a Snow Bunny Bachelorette Party!
The week I was in Utah didn't deserve its own weekly recap, as my workouts were minimal (except snowboarding of course). I'll consider it a "cutback" week, and not stress too much about it.However, by Monday, I was ready to delve into my Flying Pig Marathon training. Unfortunately, Minnesota weather wasn't on board will this idea. We received a foot of snow while we were in Park City, and the Continue Reading
Fits on the Road: Park City and Snowbird!
I’m back with more Fits on the Road from Park City, Utah! After Susie’s and my short high-altitude-holy-cow- am-I-out-of shape run, we were showered and ready to ski by 9 am. Our condo was very close to Park City Mountain Resort, so we decided to check out that resort on the first day. The really nice thing about Park City, Utah is that there are a TON of resorts very close to each other- Park Continue Reading
Fits on the Road: Park City, Utah!
Hi all. I'm sitting at the Salt Lake City airport, waiting for my flight back to Minneapolis (free wifi at the airport!) Gorgeous sunset, right?Sorry I have been absent from the blog for a few days, but we have been hitting the mountains pretty hard, all day, every day for the past three days. Lots of snowboarding and fun times!We arrived on Wednesday afternoon to our condo. in the Racquet Club Continue Reading
Fits Do Race (Pre)views: Upcoming Races
One of my 14 Motivation Tips to Keep You Running in the Winter of 2014 was to sign up for a spring race!I mentioned the many options that you have in the Twin Cities area: Goldy's 10 Mile, the Get Lucky 7k or Half Marathon, the 100% Irish for a Day 10 mile, the Get in Gear 10k & half marathon, Grandma's Marathon or half marathon, the Minneapolis Continue Reading