My Fitness Diary

While I’ve been dancing for most my life and have taken tons of fitness classes, I’ve decided to change it up a bit by trying out running, cycling and hopefully swimming in the future. Running is a completely different animal!! I’ve only worked up to a couple 5k races, but hope to aspire to completing a sprint triathlon and a metric century (62 mile) bike ride in the near future . . . stay tuned!

Here are some race recaps:

Turkey Trot (November 2009)

• 3.1 miles in 28:34

Chefs For Kids 5k (January 2010)

• 3.1 miles in 27:57, placed 2nd in my age group . . progress!

My fiance Chris also enjoys cycling and staying active, check out some of his race recaps:

Viva Bike Vegas Century Ride

Tour de Cure Century for the American Diabetes Association

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Recently I completed a 100 mile bike ride called Echelon Gran Fondo on May 23rd in Napa, CA.  The $1200 that Chris and I raised went to support LiveStrong the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which inspires and empowers people affected by cancer.  I know many of us have been afflicted with this terrible disease in our own families so I was honored to help in this fight.  My grandpa has had 4 different types of cancer and thankfully he has been able to battle through each one and remains cancer free to this day.  It’s such a terrible thing to go through.  Money also went to local hospitals to support and enhance cancer treatment services.



This ride was such a great and empowering experience!  Although it was the most challenging ride with lots of epic climbing, I am so excited to start training for another one, call me crazy.

Check out my full Napa Century Ride Recap and our Napa Trip if you get the chance!

New bike!

I just love the feeling of participating in these kinds of events, especially meeting new friends that also enjoy being active.

Go Team Awesome!

Well, for now I’m thinking about Viva Bike Vegas which will be October 9th!  Yeee-hah!

I’ve also recently embarked another new adventure . . .  swimming

To be continued . . .