Amara in Training

Tag: motivation

  • 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…

  • Fitness Friday: Channel Your Gratitude and Level Your Attitude

    Let’s face it. Most of what we see online is not true. Very rarely will you see what people are really seeing, feeling, and thinking. Most of the time it’s all one giant highlight reel — everyone effortlessly goes about their daily lives looking happy and relatively healthy. Truth is, it’s mostly an act. Everyone has…

  • Yoga + Bike Goodies + Hotel Booked + Oh Yeah, Please Donate to my Fundraiser!

    It seems like just yesterday I was crossing the half marathon finish line, and now we’re already at Thursday! I’m still relatively tense and stiff from the race and I’ve been meaning to get to the massage therapist’s office all week. I will most likely have to schedule it for the weekend. In the meantime,…

  • 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…

  • Rewarding Good Behavior

    I might be a very strange female, but I loathe shopping. I hate the process of having to fight for parking, deal with traffic, deal with salespeople…but there’s one thing I will never hate shopping for and that is training gear! As a form of self congratulations for a job well done on my self-paced…

  • Olympic Tri (My Way) and Race Recap: Athleta Iron Girl 10K

    So sometime last night, when I was tossing and turning because I couldn’t fall asleep, I came up with this plan… I’ve been really annoyed lately that I can’t find a nearby triathlon that works with my schedule so i decided to do my own thing. (Story of my life.) I decided that since my…

  • 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…