I Did It!

I am now a NASM certified personal trainer! After a lot of studying I passed my exam and am so excited to start helping people! I am not sure in what way yet, I need to talk to my boss and see if they will hire me as a personal trainer. If that doesn't happen I will look into starting my own business. I have a lot of ideas and just need to start implementing some of them.

Running is going well, I have been averaging 4 days a week with 2 days of bootcamp. I am enjoying this schedule and starting to see more definition in my legs and arms since not doing much in the summer. There is a great group attending bootcamp and I am having a lot of fun getting to know them better. On tap today is a 4 mile run, and of course a nice long walk with my hyper puppy! Have a great day!

Fall Running

Running has been fantastic this fall, after struggling with motivation for quite some time now I am in love with running again. Fall is my favorite season and this year has been perfect with cool mornings and daytime highs anywhere from 50*-70*. We have had an incredibly wet summer so everything is still green, instead of the typical brown, and the fall leaves with the green fields are amazing.

I also had the oppurtunity to run a 10k with my son! It was Gavin's first race, besides the local 1 mile fun run, and he earned his first medal which was very exciting! We ended up doing a 1 minute run with 30 second walk throughout the race, and as predicted I had to chase him the first 2 miles. He started dragging a little around mile 5 but as soon as we turned the corner and could see the finish line 4 blocks away he picked it up. At the last block he stepped it up and I again started chasing him, he has his Dad's speed and I couldn't catch him. He finished about 10 steps ahead of me!

This is at the starting line.

Shortly after the 10k it was time to run the 1 mile with Brooklyn, my sister, and her daughter, Marlee. It started raining right before we started and dumped on us throughout the run, finishing with lightning at the finish line. We had fun though and excited to run again next year!