Hey Bay Area friends, ready to go Hog Wild on Feb. 16th! It is time to have some fun in the mud!!! Before I get started, congrats to Tracey English for winning the Road ID. Please email me at mindyartze@aol.com to claim your prize!
This is my group, the Mud Angels at the Hog Wild Mud Run last year
The Hog Wild Mud Run has agreed to give me one registration if we get 10 of you to register. What that means is that if you register, you could win your money back. That is a pretty great deal! Registration incluedes free food/drinks, medal, tshirt, and race photos! (NICE!) You must be a new registrant though!
We had such a great time running this race in the spring of last year. It was amazing. Here is my blog post recapping the race. http://mindysfitnessjourney.blogspot.com/2012/07/hog-wild-hell.html Read about it to find out the awesome adventures this race has to offer! BEST MUD EVER from my experience!
One of my blogging friends, Running Hutch posted this yesterday and I decided I would use it as a template to talk about my year!
Year End Reflections: It all began with a Pink Polar and a dream!
10 Highlights:
1. Asking my mom for help with my son so I could start working out!
2. Meeting amazing friends at my gym Fit For Fashion
3. Running my very first race (aside from the Climb up I did) with my new workout buddies. The Bolt Run! That evening we all went to a hockey game.
4. Running a 10K in NYC when I was there for work. I decided that I must really be a runner if I am choosing this while I am in the most fabulous place I have ever been. And I did it alone on the 4th of July.
5.Getting an email from Fitfluential in July telling me that I had been chosen to be a Fitfluential Ambassador. I had no idea how amazing this experience would be. It pushed me to applying to be an ambassador with Fit Approach, GirlsGoneSporty, The Women's Half Marathon, and MomPowerTeam. What an amazing group of people!
6. Getting an email from Polar Heart Rate Monitors asking me if they could use my cover photo for a tshirt idea. WHAT!!! Why of course!!! From that, I met Chris from Polar who contacted me asking me to be a Polar Ambassador. Being a Polar Ambassador means so much to me because this is a product that I truly love!
7. I ran 15 races this year. Some were mud races, one was in a tropical storm, and some were on the beach. I have never run a race in my life til April of this year.
8. I ran a half marathon and did Tough Mudder within 2 weeks of each other
9. Running The Color Run with my son
10. I met all of you! Whether it be my facebook page, my blog, my twitter, my instagram, my pinterest, my tumblr, or my google +, this social media thing has changed my life for the better. I love the twitter parties, vlogs, instagram challenges and everything. Mostly, I love learning from you all. I am just a single mom on a journey. Definitely not an expert!
Failures: (these will be short and to the point)
1. Didn't lose the weight I want yet
2. Achilles tendonitis messing up my training
3. Not loving the half marathon like I thought I would
4. Being slower than my running buddies and having to run alone
5. Did I say not losing the weight I wanted to lose? It counts twice.
6. Still waiting for Mr. Right
7. My plumbing backing up and ruining my carpet... still haven't replace it yet...
8. Not having the money I wish I had to do more with fitness
9. Not conquering all my fears in the Tough Mudder
10. Excuses I made to skip workouts
Game Changers:
1. Fitfluential, Fit Approach, GirlsGoneSporty and the Mom Power Team and the opportunities I have been given by being involved with these groups.
2. Polar: Being a member of the Polar Racing Team.
3. My facebook page and blog
Things focused on:
1. my health and fitness
2. my blog and facebook page
3. being the mom that my son would be proud of
Things I forgot
1. Learning to cook healthy meals
2. Maintaining my social life. I got really involved with my son and my journey that I lost the desire to go out and have fun as often as I should have
3. I forgot to be angry! I let it go and that is a great thing!
Amazing Family Time!
I was so blessed to have a beautiful Christmas with my family. Here are just a few pictures of all of us enjoying the holiday! My son and I also joined in on the #26 Acts in honor of the lives lost in Newtown, CT.
My father dresses up like Santa every year on Christmas Eve. The entire family comes over, and he passes out presents. The real Santa asks him to do this for him every year since he is so busy!
My son and I got an awesome present in our stockings from Santa! Santa gave us Road ID bracelet! Watch my vlog to hear all about it. I also so the most amazing gift for runners from Mile22 Bags.
Enter my giveaway to win a $35 gift certificate to Road ID
Wow! Honor Mention for my Youtube channel??? So honored!
Here is my vlog about it! :)
Mike from Frugal Fitness wrote up his top 25 Youtube channels for fitness and inspiration. While I was not in the top 25 (duh! I just created my channel in August,) I was given honorable mention. That is amazing! I am honored!!! Make sure you check out his list. There are some awesome channels that will give you guidance for workouts and healthy living. Check out http://www.myfrugalfitness.com/2012/12/top-25-youtube-fitness-channels-2012.html
