My favorite past time

I took a break from everything this weekend to enjoy time with Dave and friends doing one of my favorite things - fishing! I only caught Gulf Coast Blue Crabs ( not even kidding ) but a bad day on the boat is better than a great day at the office! I had so much fun this weekend. 

Saturday night we went to a friend's house to celebrate her graduation from med school as a physical therapist. It was nice to meet some of Dave's friends from high school that are still around this area. And I seriously could not remember staying up past 2 AM in a while but we did!

Random side note - I saw this on Pinterest and just fell in love with it! I wish we were building our house sooner so I could have it! 

Today meant back to work getting my butt in gear. I am planning on incorporating more boot camp workouts right now because I am burning myself out on running only. So Mon-Wed-Fri will be boot camp workouts and Tues-Thurs-Sat will be my running days. I hoping this will help with my attitude towards getting out of bed at 5 AM!

Started on the elliptical then headed outside to join Garza's class. It was a good workout! I made it through two rounds of 1-6 before i had to leave to get ready for work. 

39th Armed Forces Beach to Bay Relay Run

So about a week before the big Beach to Bay run that is held every year here in Corpus Christi I was stuck in this big black boot! How come you say....well I was changing up my stride, something a CrossFit coach told me to do, since I am a heal striker. Well in doing so I started to get a stress fracture on the outside of my foot. My friend who help me through all of it is an LAT at a local high school and he also told me that the colorful Nikes I was wearing really did nothing to support my foot either. Needless to say I wore this boot everyday during the day for about three weeks and it helped so much! It enabled me to keep training and run my first 10K!

I chose to run the first leg of Beach to Bay which is.......the beach leg! Duh! It gave me a great excuse to spend some time at my first home here in Corpus Christi. I love the island. I miss the island. I miss the beach. I miss the friends I made, the bars I went to, and the lifestyle that comes with living so close to the water. 

This year the winds were roughly around 20 MPH give or take and the majority of the leg that I ran was into the wind! Ugh! But I finished. My average pace per mile wasn't that great but given the super loose sand and wind that day I will take it. 

Beach to Bay has all ready opened up registration for 2015 and I am definitely going to run it again. I think this next one I want to run the third leg. If you have never been a part of this awesome relay you definitely need to put it on your race bucket list! Plus coming to Corpus Christi is always a bonus!