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Weekly Workout/Training in Review 5/18-5/24

Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day Weekend! Today I am linking up with Tara at Running n’ Reading for the Weekend Update (a day late ;) ) Monday 5/18- 2 mile walk Tuesday 5/19 - 2 mile walk Wednesday 5/20 – 2 mile walk + 60 minutes yoga  Thursday 5/21 - 2 mile walk Friday 5/22 - 2 mile walk  Saturday 5/23 - 60 minutes yoga + 60 minutes of yoga (yes twice) Sunday 5/24 – Rest day Total: 10 miles walking…

Friday Five – Favorite Indoor Workout (CPY)

Happy last Friday of January! Crazy, right?!  Today I am linking up with Mar, Courtney, and Cynthia and this week is “Favorite Indoor Workouts.”  Through ClassPass, I’ve been able to try several new studios and workouts.  Today I thought I would share five reasons why Core Power Yoga is currently my Favorite Indoor Workout: 1. Variety of Classes/Levels They offer Core Power Yoga 1,2 and 3 (Vinyasa), Hot Yoga, Hot Power Fusion, Yoga Sculpt and Core Restore.  My favorite is Yoga Sculpt. 2.…

Hot Yoga for Beginners – Tips and Lessons

  • December 16, 2014
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The past couple of weekends I visited Core Power Yoga for their CorePower Yoga 1 – Beginning Power Yoga and CorePower Yoga Sculpt - Heated Power Yoga with Weights classes.  They were both good workouts and the CorePower Yoga Sculpt class was my first hot yoga class (versus yoga in a warm/heated studio).  I thought I would share some tips and lessons that I learned this past weekend. 1. Read the Class Description/Instructions Beforehand I forgot to do this and…

SeaWheeze Half Marathon Race Recap-Part 3

October 3, 2013 Missed Part 1 and Part 2? Sunset at Kitsilano “Kits” Beach Pre-Race Yoga After the expo we headed to Cambie Street to see the lululemon lab-this store is only in Vancouver.  They design and sell their own exclusive line of innovative and functional clothing (think black, white, greys).  They plan on opening other lululabs in other major cities-what a cool concept! We headed to the town of Kitsilano for some dinner + yoga.  Kitsilano, once a sleepy…

SeaWheeze Half Marathon Race Recap-Part 2

Click to read Part 1! Downtown Vancouver Sightseeing Vancouver proper (the city) is approximately 44 square miles (slightly smaller than the District of Columbia).Getting around town was easy-metro (they are in the process of implementing their Compass Card system-think Smart or Metro Card), bus (only coins), taxi cabs (they take credit cards), and walking.  Here are some of my sightseeing highlights (I will address more in Part 3): GranviIle Island Public Market is north of downtown and offers visitors walking…

SeaWheeze Half Marathon Race Recap-Part 1

I LOVE to travel, so when I was finalizing my race schedule I knew I wanted to add a destination race, the question where to? This past August, I ran the second lululemon SeaWheeze Half Marathon in Vancouver, B.C.  It was a (long) weekend filled with sightseeing, yoga, friends, food, and running of course!  It also helped that lulu was the title sponsor (ummm..cool swag anyone?) My friend and I signed up in early February and the race of 10,000…