Showing posts with label Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooks. Show all posts

Friday, February 4, 2011

Five for Friday!

Hello from Snowville Maine! I hope you are having a great week. Here is what is on my mind today.

ONE
We are BURIED in snow with more on the way this weekend.
Wednesday's storm dumped quite a bit on us but not the 20-24" we were expecting. The hubby was home for the day so we had a fun family day playing in the snow. Well, Lola and I played mostly while hubby cleaned out our house and his parents place (they live up the street!) as well as roof raking.

Lola all bundled up and ready to go out!

Lola with her "shovel" while we cleaned out wave one of snow

The view from the SLEDCAM on our way to the in-laws
TWO
I had my second PT session with Jared today and we are making great progress already. The patella tendons are already starting to loosen up and my quads are enjoying the stretching and rolling. He gave me some new exercises and some of these work on core and balance which I loved! Challenging stuff but I love a challenge. We also did more running and the changes we made with my form are making a huge difference. In one short week of running drills, he was pleased to say that I was running correctly and looking good!

THREE
While we are talking about running...I have been told to switch out shoes. The Kayano's are too heavy and I do not need motion control. Jared has suggested a lightweight performance stability shoe like the Saucaony Fastwitch and and New Balance 905. If you run in this kind of shoe, I would love to hear from you!
The bad news is-I just won a pair of Brooks Trance 10's from Leah at Chasing Atlanta this fall and they came last week. Jared looked at them today and said "no". Wrong shoe for my foot.
The K-Swiss shoes I won from Dailymile.com are also wrong for running but I will use these for weight training and cross training days.

FOUR
Speaking of Dailymile.com, I was selected to apply to be on the Dailymile team! They select 300 people on the site and then you apply to get one of 30 positions. To apply you need to put together a video why you would be a great addition to the team. I have until Monday at midnight to submit my application.
Not that I want to sway any votes away from me but check out Mike's video submission--hilarious!!
Click HERE
I will certainly be posting when the voting is up-your support would be appreciated :)


FIVE
I hope you have been paying attention lately. I am doing an exciting giveaway this weekend!! Make sure you check in for your chance to get in on some cool stuff.
Also, there is another really cool giveaway at 26.2 is My Cooldown . He is doing a Tanita BC-1000 scale giveaway. I thought this was supercool considering I am on a quest to lower my body fat %!! I just had to share this with you!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ding Dong! Special Delivery~

 

My front door has been a flurry of activity the last two days.
The postman.
The UPS man.
The FedEx woman.


It's Christmas in January!!

I got this lovely little package of running love from The Blue Eyed Runner



I got these from Jess at Blonde Ponytail and MissZippy1
They are going up on my gym WALL OF MOTIVATION


I got this package from K-Swiss from a Dailymile.com challenge


I got this package from Leah at Chasing Atlanta and the fabulous Brooks giveaway she did this fall (it only took so long because the super-awesome Glenn at Brooks wanted to hook me up with THE newest version of Trance 10's! I am hoping it was well worth the wait)


I am really, really hoping that the postman will SOON be delivering this: The Hot & Hunky Endurance Athlete Calendar featuring such hotties like Chris Lieto, Craig Alexander, Mark Foster and Kovas!!


Permission was NOT obtained for use of this image.


And I gotta say, the MOST EXCITING package came all the way from California!!


Hmmmm-I wonder what could be in that BIG BOX??
Do you care to take a guess??


I will say the box does have a little something to do with an upcoming giveaway!!

If you were one of the peeps who answered my TOUGH CHIKs call on Tuesday, you earned yourself an extra entry to the TWO upcoming giveaways!!
Stay tuned...