What is UP y’all? Happy Friday!
You would think that I would get some down time considering that I no longer work a full time job right? Except it is the complete opposite–this full time blogger thing is actually super time consuming, which makes you wonder–how on earth did I do it with a full time job?! A lot of people ask me this question–I still don’t have an answer 🙂
This week was full of workouts, great music and plenty of mystery!
Monday: I ran 5.07 miles on Monday–I felt good, slightly sore from the Fitbloggin fun over the weekend but still ready to run. The treadmill has clearly become my best friend and I’m okay with this, for now, while the miles are still relatively small. I felt great throughout the run which was encouraging because it was the first time in a long time that I actually felt GOOD during a training run.
Tuesday: So I was invited to join a CYC Fitness Spinning class in midtown. The funny thing is that I really wasn’t sure WHY I was there, or for which brand–but the class looked legit so I went. (Looking back though, I probably could have been kidnapped because of my love for spinning, but that’s neither here nor there).
It was a really fun class! The instructor was ON it, the sweat was so real and it really reminded me again why I love spin classes, the music, the endorphins–it’s just so awesome.
Turns out we were all health and fitness instagrammers that inspire! Which was super cool, it was simply a celebration for us to keep going and keep creating community on Instagram. So nice! We got a cute little goodie bag too. 🙂
Wednesday: This day was really tough. I had spent the day at two events, running up and down the city, it was 90 plus degrees all day (hello heat wave, can you give us a break already?!) so the notion of running 4 miles for marathon training after all of that was daunting to say the least.
there is literally nothing inside of me that wants to run these 4 miles right now….
— Nellie ✊?✊?✊???? (@BklynActiveMama) July 27, 2016
I put my gym clothes on, literally repeated to myself out loud over and over “It’s only 4 miles, it’s only 4 miles” and I went and DID IT! Remarkably, I felt extremely strong and I ran the fastest miles I’ve run in 3 weeks. I can’t even with my body. I need my body and my brain to get together and decide that we are going to train for the marathon together. 🙂
Happy I went for the run despite every single thing inside of me telling me to skip it.
— Nellie ✊?✊?✊???? (@BklynActiveMama) July 27, 2016
Friday: Today is long run day! Since I will be spending my weekend at a blogger conference that is in town and a Children’s Fashion Show, I will have to get my long run miles done today with a shorter run on Sunday. Having the flexibility to do my long runs on a weekday is just priceless.
So there was one super amazing thing that got me through that dreaded run on Wednesday and that was this brilliant 90s R&B list curated by Spotify. There may have been lip syncing and hand dancing throughout :).
