Surf City 1/2 & LA Color Run 5K This Weekend!

This Sunday I'm running the Surf City 1/2 Marathon for my third time!  I'm running it as a training run for the LA Marathon in March, which is only 47 days away!  Weeeeeeeee!!!

This morning I ran for the first time in a week after discovering I have shin splints.  I spent the past week resting, icing, wrapping, elevating, stretching, and this morning when I hit the pavement my shins felt much better.  I did 45 minutes of intervals at race pace, and I feel much more confident (I was worried that not running for a week would hurt my training...it didn't, phew).  I was able to get a 22 mile bike ride in over the weekend though, which I'm sure helped.  I'm going to run tomorrow and Thursday, and continue icing, and I hope I'll be A-OK for Sunday!

Another fun thing that's happening this weekend is the LA Color Run!  For Christmas, our friends D&L registered me and my hubs for the Color Run.  I did the OC Color Run with my cousin last year and we had a blast!  Since Lisa and I are both running Surf City on Sunday, we're going to take it easy and walk/jog the 5K as a fun double date with our hubbies!

I'm looking forward to this fun-filled & race-filled Super Bowl Weekend!!!  What are your Super Bowl Weekend plans??

OC Color Run 5K Recap!

This post comes super late, but better late than never right?

On April 22, my cousin and I did the Color Run in OrangeCounty and man oh man it was so much FUN!  It's a 5K run/walk/crawl/skip, whatever you want to do to complete it, and at every kilometer there is a color station with volunteers throwing a bright colored powder.  The first color station was yellow, the second green, the third purple, the fourth was pink (which I went crazy for because pink is my favorite color!) and at the end of the race is the grand "Color Throw".  Every participant is given a packet of colored powder when they register, so at the "Color Throw" finale, all participants gather and throw their color into the air!  Needless to say, if you weren't colorful from the color stations along the course, you were definitely colorful after the Color Throw! This happened every 15 minutes so everyone could participate.

We signed up when registration opened and good thing we did because it sold out in a day!  Our hubbys were going to do it with us, but no luck.  So it was just us and we had a blast!!  I wrapped my iPhone in saran wrap which was awesome because I was able to get some sweet pictures without destroying my phone.  I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

In the Color Throw cloud 

We learned that the Color Run was going to be in San Diego in November, so my cousin, our husbands, our brothers, and friends signed up as Team Color Me Bad immediately before it sold out!  Round 2, here we come!!