Tangled Royal Family 5K Recap

We did it! My Princess Party Crew and I finished the Tangled Royal Family 5K back in February. I thought that I would finally get some pictures up for you! We gathered in the Parking lot of Disney's Epcot at 6am with another 5,500 of our closest friends. Like crazy women, we actually began seeking out other Princesses that we knew.
The music was blaring and the DJ kept the energy high! Dressed for the Party and ready to go, Tori and Becks did the electric slide.
At 7am the fireworks went off to signal the beginning of the race! As slow pokes stuck in the back we struggled with the back of the pack to get moving. By the time we went through the starting gate things had spread out enough to really start walking.
The first mile of this race is really awful. It's parking lot, a tram graveyard, and some sort of water/sewage plant that's on the back side of Epcot. One little speaker offered some music for a few hundred yards, but there's no encouragement on this stretch what so ever. We split up during this mile Tori, Becks and Traci walked ahead, while Jakie and I enjoyed a more leisurely pace.
Once we got inside of World Showcase the race got so much nicer. That dank depressing feeling of the first mile was gone and it started to really feel like Disney Magic.
Jackie and I were trailing behind our group, but that's okay! We were able to hop into a few character pictures with other Princesses we knew walking the race. Check out Amanda Tinney's 5K post, can you spot Jackie and I in the pictures?  It was an opportunity I don't know that we would have gotten if we had been going faster. Epcot in the morning is beautiful and all of the walkers that we met along the way were so friendly and wonderful.

One of my favorite moments was when I was jogging a little bit to catch up with Jackie and my dear friend Sarah-Irene looked at me and said "Kristen, look at you, you're running!"  LoL... yes, for a couple of dozen yards I can run (jog... okay waddle).  That's about it for now.


Once we came around towards Spaceship Earth we knew we were in the home stretch!
Look at that, Tori was still smiling! Love those ears.
There it is, the Finish Line! Everyone was happy to see the finish line! It's an early morning and a long brisk walk but it feels so very good to cross that line and have that sense of accomplishment that you did it. Disney is fantastic to it's 5K folks and everyone gets a medal!
So where do hungry girls with race bling head after it's all over? Whispering Canyon Cafe! Look at how serious Tori and Traci look about that food. It was so good and a wonderful way to relax after the race. Good job girls, I'm so proud of everyone for finishing the 2012 Tangled Royal Family 5K!

To read more about our wonderful trip check out Traci's Blog 

The View From My Fishbowl

Back on the Horse

Spring has sprung! Are you out walking?

And I'm Feeling Good...

Tori and I had a GREAT walk today which is surprising because we're both sick.  However, I felt pretty dern good, and didn't have to lay down on the bench at the end of our workout.  I felt pretty strong.  Our pace was a little slower than our last walk, but hey... we're sick.

I think that the new training schedule that we're adhering to is really working well.  The goal is just to get out and move for an hour at a time.  I'm not worrying about what my pace is or how far I'm going, I just need to get out and do something for a whole hour.  I want to be sure that we have enough cardio strength to sustain exercise for that length of time.  Which is about the length of time that I want to finish the 5K in.  

Right now we're working on a two days on one day off schedule, which gives us a workout 5 days a week.  We're trying to go Bike/Walk/Rest  Bike/Walk/Rest  Bike/Walk/Rest

So far so good, but it's only been a week! We need to keep this up at the very least until February 22nd.

Training Update and Life Kvetching

I'm sick this morning, stuffy nose, sore throat, just really not feeling well. However my hips/legs seem to have recovered from our great walk on Thursday so I knew I really should get to the gym. If I take more than one day off, this will never get done. So bright and early, off to the gym Tori & I went.

We biked for an hour while I listened to WDW Radio. The machine said that I made it 9.4 miles, which is not as far as I went last time, but hey, I'm sick! At least I went out and did it. Mostly motivated by the fact that so many of my friends were down in WDW this weekend running the Marathon.

I wouldn't say today has been a good day so far and it's only 11:00am.  I discovered some financial issues that we can't call about and see what's going on until tomorrow at the earliest.  My brain is dwelling on it though, and as I'm trying to prepare for the worst I'm feeling sort of devastated right now.  I hopped that the workout would help, it didn't.  It's nothing bad that we did, I have a feeling that our health insurance has gone up more than expected.  It's a factor I wasn't expecting that may have very depressing consequences.  I guess the failing economy and rising costs may have finally caught up with my family too.  Of course that's just a guess at this point, like I said, we have no way of knowing what's going on until tomorrow at the least.  I just want to cry.  I don't do well being in "limbo".

Back to it!

I had considered just letting this blog go, however several people mentioned to me that they rreally miss it.  Apparently watching and listening to me moan and groan as I waddle my way down the path is not only entertaining, but has made many of you feel better about your own work outs.  It *IS* okay to to hate being out there doing it, as long as you keep getting out there to do it.

It's not that I've been ignoring you all... I just haven't worked out since November!  Oh my god... 49 days until the race and I'm just now getting my rear in gear.  The holidays really kicked me in the teeth this year and I'm only now starting to recover. 

So... here's another video of me saying "so" way too much, and giving my all on the museum loop. My camera was flip flopping back and forth, sorry about that. I hope you enjoy!!