Mimi's Fitness and Things!

As every knows my new favorite hobby is running.  Which is very shocking to me since I used to hate running so much. But when the opportunity came for me to start a running group through the " Black Girls Run "  I jumped at the chance because at the time I wanted something to challenge me.  And at the time running was the ultimate challenge.  When I started the group last May I could barely run a mile.But over time as I got  better I realized that it wasn't that I hated to run, I just wasn't doing it right which in turn made me not like it. After building my endurance and learning more about the sport I realized that I love running.  So much so that in the year that I've been running I've completed 4 5ks ( that's 3.1 miles) and I've completed 2 half marathons ( 13.1 miles). All of which occurred in the last 5 months.  I've really been wracking up some miles hitting the pavement. But like with every sport there's a downside.  running really tig

BGR-Synchronize swim??  So my next  installment of "Workouts I do so you don't have too..."  was water aerobics!  Now I know what you're thinking because I was thinking it too.  You immediately had visions of little old women in  a pool as you gently moved through the water sort of like a wet ballet.  But this was far from it. It was actually pretty fun.  One of the members of my running group hipped us to the class at the Pompano Aquatic Center. Great thing was that it was only $3.50 for the class. I was late because I got lost, thanks to Google who said the aquatic center was on 20th Ave and not 18th! UGH!  But once I found it I was in the pool in a matter of minutes.  Our instructor was pretty young, not more than 25 years old and she had legs I would have killed for!  Not an ounce of fat anywhere!  LOL. We did sprints, jumps, fast kick ups all in the water. Now anyone who's ever done this on land knows how hard these can be, imagine doing it with the wate