North Carolina....Mountains to Coast Ride

My dad and step-mom are doing an amazing thing this week.

Something I hope Josh and I could participate in someday.

They are doing a Mountain to Coast bike ride across North Carolina.

They are riding anywhere from 70-80 miles a day...for 7 days

Tent camping at their rest stops each night!

you can go here is a link to the event

I tell you this; to tell you another story...

Tonight the girls and I went for a walk in the neighborhood

I was walking at a "workout pace"

Josh was running with the pup

(btw, I call all our dogs pups even though they are 6+ years old)

The girls were riding their bikes

Our neighborhood is ONLY 2.1 miles

They were in tears and full of complaints 1\2 way though...but they did finish!

So, way to go babes!

But to their defense we do have what feels like constant rolling hills in our neighborhood!

But I couldn't help but think about the miles that my parents put in today, HA!

So major kudos goes out to my parents and the amazing journey that they are on this week!!

Another Workout at home?

Some may not consider it a workout

but for me it was...is

Washing my van in the blazing sun!

I wish I could describe to you just how hot it is.

The front of our house gets the brutal afternoon sun.

Between the hours of 5pm & 8pm,

It's like hell in our front yard!

No, I'm not exaggerating!

7:00pm, I started to wash my van;

It was still blazing outside;

But my van looked awful.

Apparently I had driven through every part of town that was doing landscaping,

cutting grass, or blowing their clippings into the street

or

my van is a magnet for the junk

It's probably the latter of the two!

Anyways

On Sunday night I declared that washing my van was in fact...

a workout!

Plus my legs, abs & arms were screaming at me

from the "homemade" workout the night before.

Yes!



Running, Squats, & Lunges....Oh My!

Last night the whole family hit up the gym

I'm down 4 lbs in the last week

and I want to continue that downward trend

Who wouldn't!?!?

Madelyn didn't have soccer practice last night

She was excited

but only briefly

Josh had her out on the fields at the Y

running sprints

shooting goals

and other soccer "stuff"

Then she came into the workout room

I was waiting for her

MORE running

The girl can run

It's in her for sure

Makes us proud

I had already been busting it out on the treadmill

HIIT workout

Have you heard of it?

High Intensity Interval Training

Yeah...It's that bad

But the best thing is

It's not a steady run

but an all out sprint for 45sec-1min

Then you jog\walk for 1.5-2 minutes

It's a GREAT workout

Keeps your metabolism revved up for so much longer

Then Madelyn and I did sit-ups, push-ups and planks

She hated me

I'm awesome like that!

We got home and she said,

"That was the best workout ever!"

Our job here is done!