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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

We all know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  It's everywhere!! Football players were pink, we had pink dress-up days at school!  I always like to do some kind of run for Breast Cancer during this month.  Last year I ran a 10K, this year I chose 13.1!  It was a virtual race for Breast Cancer Awareness and I had every intention when I signed up for this race to run a full 1/2 marathon on a Saturday or Sunday.  That did not happen, however, due to my hip injury last month.  After that injury, I could hardly run a 1/2 mile!!  It was frustrating, but I had also lost my running mojo! 

 When I think about it, I had been training for half marathons since April without really taking any breaks!  That's a lot of training!!  I think I just completely wore myself out with running.  I think I also gained some weight while training, because I was not fueling my body properly.  I always think that I can eat whatever I want because I ran today.  Well that is not really the case.  As we get older, even though we are active, our bodies change and hold weight differently.  It sucks, but it's true! 

 So I decided to do something about it!  Since I couldn't run very much, I upped my weight training sessions and have loved every minute of training my muscles differently.  I also focused more on relaxing and refocusing while doing PiYo.  The best thing that I did was to buy the 21 Day Fix containers to follow that meal plan along with my weight training and PiYo.  These containers have made it so easy to measure the correct portions for each of the food groups.  It's so easy!!  I am seeing nice changes in my body because of this combination!  I like it a lot!!  
Here's my containers!  They are so easy and helpful to use!!

 I recently started running more and running outside at night since I cannot stand to run for more than a mile on the treadmill anymore!!  The fall weather has been amazing so a week ago I was upping my mileage and I thought I wonder how many miles it will take me to get to 13.1 for the week.  Well by Friday of that week, I needed to get 7.1 miles in.  So Saturday, I set out to run 7.1 miles and it was tough!  I had not run that far in so long!!  I took plenty of breaks and made sure to hydrate well. I did it!!  So for the week of October 19-25 I ran 13.1 miles with a total time of 2:48:39. Plus I got this really cool medal to display with the rest of my medals!!  
This is such an awesome medal!  The circle in the middle spins!! 

Pardon my messy kitchen and my goofy face.  Maddie (my 6yr old) took this picture!


I have one more virtual race to run and then a 12K in November and a 5K in December!  I am looking forward to these races.  I have found my groove, my mojo, my happy place, once again!  I am a happy runner girl!  


As Always, 
Be Strong, You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring!!  

Laura

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