Mornings Made Simpler with Detach

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I am unique in that I am a pretty lazy active person. Or maybe not, maybe others are just better at hiding it than me, but yeah, despite the running and cross training I manage to pull off each week, it's usually despite a massive inclination to lay around doing an amazing sloth impression. 

Most my workouts are pre-Sunrise

The recommendation is to eat a pre-workout meal 2-3 hours before a workout. 2-3 hours!! Yeah right. You know what I am doing 2-3 hours before most of my workouts? Sleeping.. For example, here's a typical morning for me: 

This morning I went to Burn Boot Camp for the 5:30 am camp. Do you know when I set my alarm to go off? 4:40 am - a mere 50 min before my workout was to start. Not terrible you say, well, now take in account the fact that I hit my snooze alarm twice. Now we are at 4:58 - 32 min pre-workout. So now I have to check my email real quick (my office has Hong Kong and China locations and I like to take a glance at what I can expect to be asked of me from my Asian counterparts when I arrive into work.) So, by the time I do all that (plus check out any Facebook, Twitter or Instagram messages), yeah, I'm actually standing up for the first time at 5:10 am, 20 min pre-workout. And I have to leave the house by 5:20 to get there in time. So yeah, I've given myself 10 whole minutes to get dressed, brush my teeth, grab something to drink/eat and exit the house. 

Should I do better? Heck yeah. 

Will I do better? Doubtful - I know who I am.

Anyway, where I am going with this is I need for my hydration and nutrition options pre-workout something quick that I can grab and go and will kick in pretty much immediately.

This is where Detach Premium Hydration has become a bit of a lifesaver for me. I can grab a bottle of this straight from the fridge, drink it on the way out the door and feel pretty much immediately energized. Detach is made with all plant based nutrition, including superfood ingredients, organic coconut nectar and organic wildflower honey and no artificial sweeteners. It also contains purified sea salt which gives me that bit of extra sodium I need for a hard workout. Plus, it tastes really good too!

If I am feeling super ambitions (the night before of course) I will make up a Smoothie to grab in the morning using Detach as the base. My two favorite Detach Smoothie recipies are as follows:

Detach Pina Colada

1 Bottle of Detach
1 cup of frozen pineapples
1 scoop of vanilla protein powder

Berry Berry Coconut Smoothie
1 Bottle of Detach
1 cup of frozen mixed berries
1 banana 1
1 scoop of vanilla protein powder

Both super easy peesy. Both yummy and get me energized quickly. Both I can grab and drink as I am running out the door. 

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What about you? Are you a morning person? What do you do to make your mornings go smoothly? Or, do you have any yummy smoothie recipes to share? Let me know in the comments below!

Taking the Marathon Plunge

I am going to run a marathon. 

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Now that that is out of the way... 

It's been a week since I pulled the trigger and made the official decision to sign up for my very first marathon. And I'm only freaking out a little as you can tell from above. 

I survived the first Half, how hard could the other Half be? 

So here are the details. I will be running the Tobacco Road Marathon on March 17, 2019 in Cary, NC. I ran the Half this year (my current Half PR) and it was a great race, nice and flat with great support, so I decided to up the ante this year. Here's hoping that Tobacco Road is good to me 2 years in a row. 

Training will not officially start for my first marathon (gasp) until November, but in the meantime, I plan to keep myself pretty busy in obsessing over every little thing such as training plans, what should my time goal be, whether I should get a coach, how I should change my nutrition, what to wear, how to train, what changes do I need to make when training for this huge distance, should I keep racing while training, how will I do my longest runs in the middle of winter, how do I keep from getting injured, and last but not least (and actually probably not last) what will I eat immediately after?

And of course, I will also but for now, the hardest part, registering, is done. Yup, I'm registered. Whew. 

Signing up is just step one, but it's a BIG one!

Want to join me for moral support? I have a sweet discount for either the Full or the Half Marathons - $20 off with code trmrave19 when you register at www.tobaccoroadmarathon.com. I could use all the support I can get! 

Until then... just breathe, just breathe, just breathe...

And feel free to pass on any marathon tips or tricks in the comments.