No Workout Wednesday!  We got something else planned for you folks which may be a little more interesting.  Next week will tell.

Tip Tuesday

 

 

By alternating a variety of endurance workouts during the off-season, you'll maintain motivation and fitness without the risk of burn out or injuries from holding steady at higher miles too long.  Going with a mixture of workouts at shorter distances also allows you to train at a variety of speeds rather than just a long, slow slog.  It's a fun way to run playfully and with a hint of purpose.

Motivational Monday

Moncton

Rain on the way up

 

Wiw provided the Traveling Snacks

 

Oxford the blue berry capital of the world

 

Windmills

 

Border flags, made it to NB

 

Cleared up

Desk in hotel going over stores to hit

 

M&M cookies

 

New running shirt

 

View from room

 

Swiss chalet

 

Rain on way home

 

 

 

Friday Funny

The World Has Become A Better Place

LOOK what happened yesterday!!!!  No words!

This will be the nightly entertainment from here on out.  If Twin 2 doesn't work out again this is her excuse.  If you haven't watched it, we are encouraging you to do so. 

Workout Wednesday

Wednesday, June 10 – Rest Day!

Thursday, June 11 – HIIT 15 & Tone 30 – DONE!

Friday, June 12 – Rest Day!

Saturday, June 13 – Rest Day!  As the days are getting longer and the warmer weather is approaching we  talked and have decided to stop with the Turbo Fire workout for now and will start back up in the fall.  The reason for this is this month Turbo Fire called for hour long videos INSIDE when we would rather be OUTSIDE!  So in typical Twin fashion we have decided to quit Turbo Fire (yes we know we only had 4 weeks left) and start up with the Jillian Michaels 90 day Body Revolution challenge.  These videos are only 30 min videos (which seems more doable) and then we can do whatever else we want to INSIDE or OUTSIDE, our choice.

Sunday, June 14 – JM Video 1 – DONE! plus Hour walk at Point Pleasant with the dogs and a 40 min – 10k Bike ride in the trails

Monday, June 15 – JM Video 2 – DONE! plus Long Lake with the dogs and Twin 2 and her hubby went for an evening stroll

Tuesday, June 16 – JM Cardio 1 – DONE!

Our rest days with this program are on Saturday so we may switch up the Workout Wednesday but that is yet to be determined.

Tip Tuesday

Three-point lunges develop energy transfer from landing to push-off and strengthen the lateral knee muscles for improved stability.   To do this helpful exercise, lunge the left leg forward.  With quick force, push the left foot off the floor and into a diagonal lunge to the left, keeping the hips straight.  Push the left foot off the floor again, landing in a lunge to the left side, keeping the upper body stacked over the hips.  That's one rep. (Each rep should take about three seconds to complete).  Do six reps; switch legs.

Motivational Monday

Friday Funny

Are They Worth It?

Want to know what’s expensive?  Honeycrisp apples.

Are they worth it?  Yes. 

3 apples for $8.70 worth it?  Yes

Monday morning Twin 2 had the day off and went grocery shopping with her husband.  He started the grocery shopping as he got to the grocery store first.  He had two bags of apples in the cart when I got there (we don’t eat the same kind).  I thought nothing of it. 

We finished grocery shopping and then went to the cashier.  As the cashier was ringing our food through I was checking the monitor to see if prices are coming up as they should.  She rings through the apples and I see “Honeycrisp apple $8.70”.  Here’s how the convo went:

Cashier:                 These apples are $8.00. 

Me:                        Ummhmmm

Cashier:                 Do you still want them?

Me:                        Ummhmmm

Cashier:                 3 apples for $8.00.  You sure you want them?

Me:                        Ummhmmm

Then Husband pipes up and says “Make sure you don’t bruise them”.  Cashier says “I’m not touching them” lol

Honeycrisp apples are expensive and only a treat in the summer.  When fall/winter rolls around again it’s back to Golden Delicious.

Workout Wednesday

Wednesday, June 3 - Fire 45 EZ (made up Tuesdays) - DONE by Twin 1. 

Thursday, June 4 - Core 20 &; Stretch 40 - Core 20 Done by Twin 1! No stretching but a 5k run with a friend.

Friday, June 5 - Fire 30 & Stretch 10 - Rested for the 5k Sole Sisters on Saturday.

Saturday, June 6 - Fire 45 EZ, Stretch 10 & SOLE SISTERS - Sole Sisters DONE!

Sunday, June 7 - Core 20 & Stretch 40 - Rested.  Twin 1 went for a 90 minute Hike at Bluff.  Twin 2 had a Downton Abbey party to get ready for.  After much stress and contemplation she ended up not really dressing up at all but did have pearls on.  However, her friend was dressed up enough for the both of them :)

Monday, June 8 - HIIT 15 &; Sculpt 30 - DONE by Twin 2. Twin 1 needs some motivation.

Tuesday, June 9 - Fire 45 & Stretch 10 - Not done by either however Twin 2 did Fire 30 which is Sunday's video so will do Fire 45 on Sunday.

This is our last month and we need some motivation...almost there but can we hang on?

Tip Tuesday

"During the hard-training phase, never be afraid to take a day off.  If your legs are feeling unduly stiff and sore, rest; if you are at all sluggish, rest; in fact, if in doubt, rest."

- Bruce Fordyce, South African and nine-time winner of the Comrades Marathon

Sole Sisters 2015

Well another Sole Sisters has come and gone.  We have ran it 3 years out of 4 and hope to continue with it.  As we have said before it's a great first race for women as it's all about comradery and just enjoying yourself while reaching your goal of running/walking 5k.  

Last year we ran this race with our friend Flo.  It was her first 5k and this year another one of our friends (CS) signed up making this her first 5k race ever.  She started running last summer/fall and has been working her way up to 5k.  She did awesome.  Again, this is a great race for a first timer. 

Once again this year it rained the day of and we mean rained.  Torrential rain.  All. Day. Long.  We prayed to the rain gods.  The weather brought back horrible memories of our 1/2 in Ottawa back in September.  The only difference was the distance and in Ottawa it didn't rain until we started running but on Saturday we thought we'd actually have to go out and begin in the rain.  

As you can imagine the texts to each other started very early in the day about what to wear.  The shirts this year were made a little loser we found which was good because you could fit clothes under it with room to spare and they were comfy.  Twin 1 and CS decided to wear their rain jackets underneath their shirts while Twin 1 just wore a thin long sleeve shirt underneath.  We had also gotten purple tutus in our race kit.  Twin 1 wore her but Twin 2 did not.  She thought that as it was elastic and didn't fit snugly it may be up around her boobs by the time the race was over.  Twin 1 thought the same but wore hers anyway.  So did about 3000 others.

The tutu that never got worn:

 

The race started at 6 pm but we had to be at Dartmouth Crossing at 5:30 pm so we could walk from the meeting spot to the start line which was about 1 km away.  It's fun to see 3200 women all dressed in purple doing the walk up to the start line. Twin 2 left her house at 4:30 pm and picked up Twin 1 and CS and we were on our way.  On the way over we were telling CS about how horrible runs were in the torrential downpour.  Afterwards we realised we should have just kept that to ourselves as this was her first race and we weren't helping her with our rain bashing and her being nervous already for her first race.

Once parked we pulled on our ponchos and used the bathroom and got ready to roll.

As we were waiting to walk up to the start line the rain gods had heard us and answered our prayers.  It stopped raining.  We kept our ponchos on until we got to the start line and then we stuffed them under a pylon with the intention of going back for them later...we didn't end up going back.

At 6 pm the race started and we were off.  We did a lot of dodging people.  More so in the beginning and around the water stations but we did pretty good at finding holes to run by people.  As usual they had a few water/DJ/hug/hi five/chocolate stations, etc.  I didn't find the hugs to be plentiful which was a bit disappointing.  In previous years you could not get by without getting a hug but this year neither one of us 3 manged to get one.  We kept an eye out for the homeless man that wouldn't let Twin 1 go last year but he was a no show.

During the race we kept a steady pace and walked about .5k of the 5k.  We took the break on the uphill towards the chocolate station which was about half way.  The best thing about this race is the finish line is on a downhill so you can get some pretty good momentum to make it home.

CS' boyfriend and sister/brother-in-law came to cheer her on.  That was pretty great of them and they were pretty proud when she crossed the finish line.  After the race we proceeded to get our medals from the firemen.

All our pictures had us with one hand behind our back because we were trying to hide our banana peels.  YAY for bananas!

We originally planned to play afterwards by ear to see if we wanted to go out to eat or not but in the end we decided not to and will another day to celebrate.  We dropped CS off and then we headed to Starbucks for a warm drink and treat.  We went through drivethru and the barista noticed that we had our medals and race bibs still on and congratulated us on the run.  She asked if we had any big plans to celebrate.  Our reply was "No.  This is our treat.  We are now going home and going to bed".  8 pm on a Saturday night...what else are you supposed to do? 

After we got home we stuffed some newspaper/flyers in our shoes and ate our treats and went to bed :)

   

 The awesome thing about Sole Sisters next year is they are still having their 5k run in June BUT they are also adding a 10k and 1/2 marathon in October 2016.  That's awesome.  We will probably do one or the other...we are hoping to talk some friends into it as well.

Another year, another Sole Sisters race in the books.

Motivational Monday

Friday Funny

A child asked his father, "How were people born?" So his father said, "Adam and Eve made babies, then their babies became adults and made babies, and so on." The child then went to his mother, asked her the same question and she told him, "We were monkeys then we evolved to become like we are now." The child ran back to his father and said, "You lied to me!" His father replied, "No, your mom was talking about her side of the family."

Pictures & Mile A Day Winner

Hail in May.  Say whaaaat?

Hike at Long Lake

Working on fence.  Had to raise it as dogs were getting too big. Pearl can still almost jump over it though

.

 

So our Mile A Day In May is over and the winner is CF.  She walked at least a mile (and most days more) every day for the month of May.  Between the rest of us she was owed $5.  Shopping spree at Dollarama in her future we predict....or a coffee.

Workout Wednesday

Wednesday, May 27th - Today was a scheduled rest day.  Originally we were going to do a make up video (Fire 55/45) BUT we decided to take a rest day from the videos and do a 4k run as Sole Sisters is in just over a week.  We ran from Twin 2's house into the trail and then quickly ran out of the trail we we almost got eaten by something in the bushes.

Thursday, May 28th - Fire 30, Tone 30 - DONE

Friday, May 29th - Fire 55 EZ - Laziness and we were getting things together for a yard sale at Twin 1's house as her subdivision was having a community yard sale and we had some junk to sell.

Saturday, May 30th - Fire 45, Tone 30 (make up video) - Laziness.  We had the yard sale all morning and made some mo mo for Moncton. 

Sunday, May 31st - Core 20, Stretch 40 - Laziness - traveled to Moncton and shopped from noon until 9.

Monday, June 1 Scheduled Fire 45 EZ & Stretch 10 - In Moncton.  Used this day as a rest day b/c we needed it from all the workouts we did the previous days. :) We did however walk the mall from 10 am to 8:30 pm.  Soooo tired and sore afterwards. 

Tuesday, June 2 - Fire 45 EZ, Stretch 10 -HAIRCUT DAY!  Traveled back from Moncton in the morning and relaxed (laundry/lunches, etc) for a few hours then hair cut in the early evening.  Can't wait for bed.

Tip Tuesday

Maintain good form on hills.  As you ascend, shorten your stride and keep your feet low to the ground.  Try to keep your head, chest, and hips perpendicular to an imaginary horizontal line.  On descents, take short, quick, light steps and keep your center of gravity over your legs.

Motivational Monday