Amara in Training

Tag: commitment

  • Planning for Rev3, Personal Training Certification, and More

    A bit of trailing exhaustion and/or fatigue has gotten in the way of doing anything somewhat routine. After my short half mile pool session yesterday, I felt a bit under the weather because I was convinced that I might’ve caught some dreaded germs from the water. I felt a bit lethargic today but just chalked it…

  • 66 Days & $777 in Fundraising To Go Until My Next 26.2

    Okay, so I’ve stayed off my feet and tried to relax a bit at work. With only two weeks until my next half marathon and only 66 days until my next full marathon, I want to focus and get my energy levels back. That said, I actually haven’t made it out the door for my…

  • Race Recap: Rock ‘n Roll Half Marathon Los Angeles 2013

    I’ll never again take the sunshine for granted. I departed from Seattle on a gray, wet afternoon. Up until the race, my runs had been wet and chilly. I packed my warm weather gear — a running skirt and a t-shirt. Arriving on Friday night, my boyfriend and I headed to a great pho restaurant…

  • 14 More Days Until Rock ‘n Roll LA Half!

    I have exactly 14 more days left until the Rock n Roll Half Marathon in LA. And, with an intense product launch at work, I’m really going to have to be diligent about logging my miles either before, during, or after work hours. It’s been a decent training week. I’m hoping to log some more…

  • Catching Up With My Marathon Training

    So I’ve written and trashed and rewritten this blog post a few times. It’s not even a tell-all or anything. I’m just trying to get back into the swing of things here! I took about two weeks off from any serious marathon training and blogging to take care of some things at work. In that…

  • Getting Started With Green Smoothies for Breakfast

    I’m back at it again! After a late night grocery shopping trip I have all of my smoothie ingredients for the week. I also got too lazy to blog today so I vlogged again. It’s Sunday funday and I need a day off, too! If you have any recipes you’d like me to try, or if…

  • Would you be interested in joining my virtual training team?

    Hey ladies and gents! I just posted a new vlog after a year-long hiatus. (Warning: it’s pretty much the same thing I’m blogging here.) So after reading about a friend who just joined Team in Training for Goofy’s Race and a Half Challenge next January, I clicked through to another blog from a charity runner…

  • Race Recap: Sporty Diva’s Half Marathon

    This weekend’s race was a lot of fun! It was my first small race (less than 50 participants) and it was mostly women-focused. The race was more of a “run your own race” sort of event, with distances of 5K, 10K, 15K, and a half marathon. I totally underestimated what the event coordinator meant by…

  • Thanks to Triathlon, My 20-Hour Day Didn’t Faze Me

    I knew it was going to be a rough day when I rolled over in bed, picked up my phone, and saw that it was 3:30am. For the second or third morning in a row, I’ve slept quite late and woken up very early (before 5am early), and in my sleep I was dreaming about…