Amara in Training

Tag: health

  • New Trainer/Coach, New Race, and Week Recap

    What a week! It’s been very productive. On Tuesday, after a lot of internal debating, I hired a personal trainer to help me reach my goals. On Wednesday, he proceeded to metaphorically kick my ass in a very good way. On Thursday, I looked in to my goal race (Rev3 Portland) and it was cancelled!! I was…

  • Week 2-3 of 70.3 Base Training Recap

    I have a bit of catching up to do! Haven’t been blogging much since training and traveling was sucking up my schedule, but here’s my recap of my second and third week of my half Ironman base training. Monday, November 26: Rest day, since I was traveling from LA back to Seattle and took the…

  • This Type of Logic is Toxic

    I spend a lot more time on Twitter and blogs than I do on Facebook. Most of the time, my timeline is filled with things that are of little importance — people’s opinion of politics, senseless partying photos, quips about sports teams, and more. One of my acquaintances generally strikes up cool conversations on Facebook…

  • 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…

  • There’s Something About a Crow Pose

    Yesterday, with my fantabulous Pocket Yoga app, I decided to go for a 45 minute yoga session before work. I was continually interrupted, but aside from those external annoyances, things were going great. I finally started feeling less tense and tight from all the running and biking I’ve been doing. However, I came across a…

  • 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…

  • Kicking Off The First Race Of The Season

    Man, what a week that was. A lot of stress coupled with not enough sleep or nutrition makes for a very cranky Amara. I hope to get some of that on track in the upcoming week. So my diet has primarily consisted of mushy things, like shakes, scrambled eggs, yogurt, pudding, soup, etc. I’ve grown…