It’s time for Friday Five linkup with DC area bloggers Courtney at Eat Pray Run DC, Cynthia at You Signed Up for What?!, and Mar at Mar on the Run!
Each week Courtney, Cynthia, and Mar either suggest a theme for that week’s Friday Five Linkup, or leave it up to individual bloggers to come up with their own Free Friday theme.
One of the rules is for the bloggers choosing to participate to visit the other blogs on the linkup. The goal of the linkup is to introduce bloggers and readers to other blogs.
Please pop over to Courtney’s, Cynthia’s, and Mar’s blogs to see what their thoughts are on this week’s Friday Five; and to see which other bloggers are joining in on the fun!
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This week’s theme is Fitness Snapshots…
1. My fitness snapshot starts with my clock. To truly take a look into the life of an athlete, you have to realize the sense of self-discipline that is involved, and that often means getting up very early. My clock is more likely to be set at 5 AM than 3:30, but yes, I have gotten up this early for a race or to complete a workout before a busy day.
2. A quick look at the equipment in my home gym, and you’ll see many fitness snapshots. I try to lift weights three times a week for general strength and to compliment my running. With a well appointed gym just steps away, there are no excuses!
3. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that most Tuesday and Thursday mornings I post a FitSnap picture of our workout. Sometimes it’s a selfie of our running group, sometimes it’s a picture of the running trail, and yesterday it just happened to be of my leg. Putting it out there with my distance and time is a true fitness snapshot.
4. One of my favorite fitness snapshots was captured by my client’s daughter moments after my client and I crossed the finish line of her very first 5K. This picture says everything, and words can’t express how happy I was at that moment.
- Questions:
- What’s your fitness snapshot?
- What are your plans for the weekend?
Ah yes, 330 wake ups, I remember those! They may be coming back soon. Already back into the 4s (when I don’t snooze a bit too long). It’s great having most of your equipment at home, isn’t it?
The only piece of equipment I’m missing is a treadmill, and I might have to add that if we have another really snowy winter!
Remind me again which fall marathon you’re training for… MCM?
Great photos!! 13 miles on tap for me this weekend. My first run over 10 miles since the first weekend in June, I’m a bit nervous. Then just spending time with the family and working on Sunday night! Have a great weekend!
Hope your 13-mile training run went well!
Lovely photos! I am impressed you get up at 3:30! This weekend I’ll be hosting a bridal shower and hopefully 2 easy runs of 6 miles each.
My more usual wake-up time is 5 AM, but I’ve seen 3:30 before a race or two! Hope your runs went well!
Love all the photos especially all the kids running. I will be running a 200m race with my nephew (he’s 4) next year at Disney and he is super excited! This weekend I have a 14 miler to knock out before my taper. Have a great weekend!
Hope your 14-miler went well! What’s the next race that you’re tapering for?
I love that pic of your friend at the finish! Having a home gym is awesome for me too-headed down there now.. Have a great weekend
Thanks, I love it, too! Hope you’re having a great weekend, too!
Great pictures. And I recognize the last one. I was at that race in Reston too for my daughter to run the kids race.
It was so fun watching the kids run in the fun run! Some of them were fast!
That last pic of the kids running… that’s gotta be a =PR= race, looks like Reston Town Center to me! 🙂 And yes, the early wakeup call. I have to say the only time I’ve gotten up THAT early to run was for Disney… but a mid-week 10-miler during my peak week of marathon training might have me see something like 4am 🙁
You’re correct! The last picture was taken at Reston Town Center at the kids’ fun run after the Firecracker 5K last week! It was so fun watching the joy on most of their faces as they ran!
I could never get up that early to workout or just start my day. Kudos to you on that one – dedication!
Just so you know, 3:30 is the exception for very early races, it’s not my normal wake-up time. I usually get up at 5 AM on most mornings.
i love this so much. and whoa — i spotted that awesome pic of you blown up on the wall in your home gym — that is awesome, debbie! 🙂 so glad you are also running the leesburg 20k – can’t wait to hang again!
My hubby took that picture for marketing the Worldgate Sport & Health marathon program back when I coached for them. He then made a huge poster with an Eleanor Roosevelt saying on it and had it framed for me for Mother’s Day! It says, “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.” I love that saying!
Let’s plan a meet-up time and place before the race as the race date approaches.
Ah 330, that is a normal occurrence for me these days. “Sigh” I need to start hitting the gym, I just don’t feel like strength training lol. Love the pic of you ad your client. Same way I feel each time Mrs and I cross the finish line together.
Plan this weekend is a long run on Sat then a fun 5k race with our running group on Sun.
It’s wonderful crossing the finish line with a loved one (my husband and I hold hands and hold them up high whenever we finish together), so it must be extra great to cross with your new bride, especially since she’s a relatively new runner.
Hope you had fun at your 5K!
I love picture #4! How amazing you must have felt to see your client cross that finish line! I love fitsnap app too!
It was awesome, and probably one of my proudest moments as a trainer!
I totally love your elliptical machine. It’s so much prettier than mine is, which I got from the local thrift store. I didn’t want to spend too much money because I wasn’t sure I was going to use it. But I do!
And as soon as it breaks, which I think will be soon, I’ll get me a nice, new one!
I got really lucky and bought my elliptical from a friend. It only had a few hours of use and I got it at a great price! It’s good to hear that you use yours, too!
Oy the early wake-up calls. Sometimes when that alarm goes off I wonder why I do what I do. But that’s all forgotten when I’m out on the trail or crossing the finish line of a race. My most recent early morning race wake-up call was for that 25K trail race in Roanoke in June that had a start time of 6 AM. Yikes! I must really love running to go do that on my day off from work, haha.
I love watching kid’s fun runs. In my opinion that’s the purest kind of running there is.
I think most runners are naturally early risers anyway!