Where I Run...Oceanside Views

Today in addition to linking up with Jill for Fitness Friday, I'm also linking up with a fellow NE runner and ZOOMA Ambassador Amy at Running Escapades to highlight where we run! 

If you've been a reader here for any amount of time you will realize that the majority of my runs have ocean views!  As much I think mountains are beautiful and open land is as well, my heart is at the ocean!  Here are some pics from recent runs!

Now in the past few years, after joining a running group to meet more people after we moved, I discovered that I really do enjoy running here....

While I know I certainly don't look like it, I get the feeling that I am some elite runner rounding the curves!!

Finally my last favorite place to run is in Boston...maybe other cities too but I have never run in another.  There is never a shortage of things to look at and well...it is just an AWESOME city!!!  In a moments notice I can transport myself back to when I ran the Marathon and the awesome feeling of being there!  This is from the Boston Run to Remember Half from this year...another AWESOME race!

So I hope you've enjoyed your glimpse into where Fancy Nancy is pounding the pavement!  It is always neat to me to see where everyone's happy place is!!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

What does a Mother Runner do when she has no kids....time with her BRF...and a less humid evening?

Ummm but of course she runs a race!!!!

Newburyport 10 miler!!!

Getting Social

Yesterday Muscle Milk and ZOOMA crashed the Monday night community run with Social Boston Sports.  We met outside The Publick House and did a 5 mile loop around the city.  Major blogger fail on my part is that I only got a few pictures while in town...stuck in traffic...trying to make Miss Em smile!

Jill and I met the group in Brookline right on time to smiling faces and lots of Muscle Milk (Thanks Laurie!).  They listened to me gush about all things ZOOMA and why they needed to storm Falmouth this September and run with us.  Then we were off....like quickly!  The groups leader Lauren stayed with Jill and I while the boys took off....mind you Lauren and another guy had run a trail marathon just days earlier!  I forgot while we were cruising along how much I LOVE running in the city!  Boston has so much to see and it took my mind off of the fact that I was sucking wind and pouring sweat!  Plus the lightening bolts and thunder coupled with a GIANT cloud didn't hurt to move my pace along!  All I could think of was that my hubs would kill me if I got struck by lightening!  Lol!!  A quick pass through Kenmore Square and back to our meeting place and 5 miles were done!  We had a blast chatting with Lauren and Brandy...both amazing runners!

If you live in Boston or close to it, check out Social Boston Sports community runs.  They meet Monday and Wednesday nights.  It was a great and very welcoming group...if only I didn't have to work today or I would have met them for some drinks!  And as always....don't forget to join us in Falmouth (or I suppose a location closer to you :-) ) for ZOOMA Half Marathon and 10k on September 28th...discount code and link on sidebar!

Monday Motivation

Sorry for the delay in today's dose of motivation...what can I say...I spent the weekend soaking in my family in preparing for being away from them this week!  So here without further delay...

I literally woke up this morning ready to punch something...I turned my alarm off leaving me heading out the door 30 min later than I needed to...leaving me smack in the middle of Boston traffic....YUCK!  Either way I am ready to punch this week in the face.  I'm away from the fam teaching for the week(UGH) but I am making the most of it and getting in oodles of miles with my BRF Jill!  What better to distract me from missing my fam than by running until my legs fall off!!!  Good plan right?  Kicking off our running week, Jill and I are heading into the city for a ZOOMA run with Social Boston Sports tonight!!!  Can't wait!!

Are you ready to punch this week in the face?

Fitness Friday...MILF?

I got you on that title didn't I!?  Are you a Mother Instilling Lifelong Fitness?  Do you know one?

This summer has me hauling the chickies to the gym with me so that I can get a few days
 a week at the gym and some time learning kettlebell workouts that are seriously kicking my butt!!  While I would love to sneak away while they are still asleep, there has been something brewing each time that I bring them that became very clear the other day.  Each time when I pick up the girls from the Kids Room, Em asks me what I did while she was in there.  She scopes out the equipment as we walk out through the gym and asks what each one does.  It usually ends with her saying that one day she's going to use them too and I usually say I think it would be fun to work out with her!

Fast forward to this week and the day we brought one of her friends with us.  We did our usual routine talking about my workout that day as we walked out of the gym.  We got to the car and her friend said, "When I grow up I'm not going to workout! It's way too much work!" I decided to see where the conversation went before I jumped in to intervene.  Em piped in rather quickly with, "When I grow up I'm going to workout EVERY DAY! It's so much fun and it makes your body healthy and strong!" That's my girl!!!!  We finished the ride home talking about fun things that they can do each day to make themselves healthy and strong...riding bikes, playing outside, jumping in a trampoline...it was great!

Just when I want to quit...throw in the towel...stop working so hard....I remember who is watching!  Em loves to talk about exercising...asking me what I am doing and why I'm doing it.  I will keep pushing and when I want to quit I'll remember who's watching!!

How do you inspire lifelong fitness?

TTT

Baby is napping...almost...Dora is on the TV...sounds like a great time to dish you my three randoms for the week before the day ramps up!!!

No Fear...Yesterday we went to a local fair with my in laws.  We have had this fair date on the calendar ever since we drove by the fairgrounds and saw the sign up!  In true form, our Em had no fear!  Her first stop was the GIANT Ferris Wheel with Bumpa (because there was no way I was getting on it!).

It went from there.  She wanted faster and higher all night!  My hubby and I were thinking....how freeing it must be not only to have no fear but no concept that something may be unsafe!  The whole night I had to be holding her hand...especially in light of a lingering Amber Alert in RI...she knew we were keeping her safe and there was no concept of fail!  Oh if I could only live my life this way...no fear of what ifs...no fear of falling short of goals...just going and knowing it was all good!

Cape Cod Summer....This summer our friends have introduced us to a beach that has the hubby and I feeling like real Cape Codders!  People who are not born and raised on the Cape are called "wash ashores" and everyone in our family except Aubs is just that, however I feel like I'm a Cape Codder at heart...like I could live on the beach.  Isn't that enough!?(or is it just the fact that I am RI girl who just floated south!)  Either way we have gotten into a weekend habit of going to a beach where you drive onto the beach.  It's awesome...off roading, no beach carts, hours/days of entertainment!  Last Sunday we were there from 9:30-5:30!!  We love it!!

ZOOMA Run...This Monday, July 29th, we are teaming up with Social Boston Sports and Muscle Milk for a run in Brookline!  I haven't run for a long time in the city and I am really excited to team up with SBS and get my run on while we get people excited for ZOOMA Cape Cod!  In the Boston area?  Come on out and run with us!!!  We are meeting in Brookline outside the Washington St. station at 7pm.  If you're coming let me know so I can be sure to look for you! 

Old School Blogging...List of Fives

For a while now Christine has been rocking the Old School Blogging.  Then last week Angela posted her list of fives.  Well in true form about a week late here are my list of fives!!  It looked so fun and a great summer post!  Enjoy!

5 Things I have a passion for
1. my family
2. teaching
3. running
4. the beach
5. fitness
 

Right where these tootsies belong!

5 Things I would like to do before I die
1. Totally stealing on this one...I would like to see my girls grow up happy and become who God intends them to be

2. go on a safari
3. run another marathon
4. live in a house...by the ocean...with a pink door...think Miss. Rumphius! (I already have one picked out!)

One of my all time favorite kid's book!

5. drive across the country...When I lived in Spain we went to lots of small towns and I realized that there was so much of the U.S. that I haven't seen!

5 Things I say a lot
1. Do you mind if I go for a run?
2. Em where's your sister?
3. Good gravy
4. Let's use our kind words.
5. Vamanos....I figure at least if I'm saying it in Spanish then it sounds a little better than "Hey LET'S GO!"

5 books or magazines I’ve read recently
1. Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult...just finished!
2. Runner's World
3. Real Simple
4. Do Life by Ben Davis...haven't finished this yet
5. Parent's Magazine
 
5 Favorite movies
1. Sound of Music...I know ever single song!
2. League of Their Own
3. Sweet Home Alabama
4. Can't Buy Me Love
5. Anything sappy and lovey....seriously if Nicholas Sparks wrote it I'll watch it!

5 Places I would love to travel to
1. Africa...thus the safari
2. Greece
3. back to Spain and revisit where I lived
4. Prince Edward Island...I read all the Anne of Green Gables books!
5. Bali...with a hut on the ocean

5 people I invite to do this meme
If your reading this consider yourself invited!!!

Your turn! Pick a question and answer it below.