Beauty Tuesday: These Boots Were Made for …

• Defending🎤 my dissertation📖 to complete my Doctor of Philosophy📜 ~ YES, I rocked out my Docs when I became Doc!
• Undergoing my Graduation Church💒 Rituals ~ I wore my A+💯 booties
• Walking across the stage at my Commencement Exercises🎓 ~ a professor told me that my cowboy boots👢 were the best pair in the house (two great minds think alike)

4:44 ~ make a New Year’s wish!!!

Fitness Friday: Bunny Buddy

When I lived in the 🌅Bay🌉 Area, home to Western Conference Champions, the Golden State Warriors, who beat Eastern Conference Champs, the Cleveland Cavaliers, in last night’s 🏀NBA Finals🏆 Game 1, I actually had friends who walked their 🐈cats {Happy Belated Hug-Your-Cat😻 Day yesterday, by the way}

 
This morning, I joined Mami Aya and Coco 🐰Bunny🐇 on their 🐾walk! #QTwithThisCutie

 


Since my mom’s taking care of my sis’ Yorkie, they’ve been 👣walking👟 everyday, and I made a point to join them this time around!



We went to my Bestie’s 🏡house🏠 now that we’re neighbors, so Coco made friends with the Cake🎂 and Cookie🍪 Corgies: Twinkie and Oreo!

 

One of my buddies also 🏁rolled🚗 by…

 
 … And we proceeded with 🚦caution🚥 as we approached this 🐍snake!

 

Since I haven’t exercised much 🌳outdoors🌴 this 🍀spring🌷 due to my 😰sickness, I shoot to login more miles this 🌞summer🌼 little by little again!

Workout Wednesday: National Running Day

Happy National🇺🇸 Running Day!

Thanks to my 👣RunKeeper👟 📳app, I got that 📱message📲 loud and crystal clear!

All I need are my speed on my 👣feet, pump from my arms💪🏽 & 💞heart💞 + my 🎧jams!

The timing couldn’t have been better because I spoke to my 🌞summer🌼 students about pursuing and preparing for the goals, like our graduations🎓 and my 🏆marathon, just as we would with our 🎤speeches!

Wayback🏉 Wednesday: Race Bib Quilt from my 🌴RGV/STX🏁 🏆courses!

Today’s Paper📦 👛Bag👜 💼Speech included my 🏁race bib quilt from my full 🌉26.2⛲️ to a few more fun runs and walks!

Now it’s a matter of practicing what I preach! ✌🏽️  3:33 ~ make a wish!!!

*Bonus*: AM Fun Runs

Workout Wednesday: ♥Heart♥ Run

In light of both National ♡Heart♡ Disease Awareness Month and ♡Valentine’s♡ Day

I ♥love♥ to run in the ☼sun☼

I attempted to run my course in the shape of a ♡heart♡ as mine did race in the first place, and I maintained my face! #DISPObustAflow

Workout Wednesday: Stride with Pride

Show of hands (or feet):

Who walks every chance they get?

Or better yet …

Who runs every chance they get?

Whether you go on a stroll or speed up your roll, staying in the move will maintain your groove!

#‎DogJog‬ ‪#‎TreesBreeze‬ ‪#‎FunSunRun‬ ‪#‎Way2goDISPO‬ ‪#‎DISPObustAFlow‬ ‪#‎DISPOsAlwaysFly‬ 👣 — feeling swag

Here’s how I rack up those miles while tracking those smiles (even just in this past week alone without any moan or groan):

• Since I tend to be overprotective of my truck, I park my caboose further away from other vehicles and thus work out my own caboose by walking a longer distance! At least I put my legs to good use instead of being lazy!
• I burn calories after a hearty meal, whether with my military buddy or my Church bestie, either at the indoor track or doing or the Mall walk (I actually did the latter with both of them)!
• The park called my name after Church ~ so I couldn’t resist fitting in my track time to myself and GOD to pray on my merry way!
• While I’m walking down the hallways at work (both jobs), I usually do so at a fast pace ~ therefore, sometimes my colleagues or students think that I’m in a hurry or on a race ~ yet I’m simply making haste while quickening my heartbeat and my feet! 👣

Walk it off …

Happy Feet 👣 Can’t Be Beat

Workout Wednesday: Beastin’ Buddies

Motivate with a Moving Mate! 🏆

Dig the alliteration and the rhyme? These are methods that I’ve been teaching my speech students and always applying on the daily! 🎤

Lately, I’ve had a blast with my fave baller from high school, with whom I reunited this past Homecoming weekend! 🏈

We’ve hit the court for sports of all sorts! 🏀

We’ve ran in the indoor and the outdoor track to prevent slack! 👟

We also did bowl because that’s how we roll! 🎳

And we even shot pool since we’re always cool! 🎱

Oh yeah, and how could I forget our abs so we still stay fabs? 💪

Thanks, USMC and U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle, for always taking time to go the extra mile and make me smile! 😍

Workout Wednesday: Unorthodox Gear

I wear jeans to the gym!

This was from Working Out Gets Girls* one of Rick’s Man Tutorials, starring Philip Wang of Wong Fu Productions. Ok, so I wouldn’t go that far (unless they were a stretchy pair of jeggings that feel like yoga pants without showing camel toe). Actually, the only times when I’d wear jeans to the gym were when I worked at my local gym a decade ago.

Well, the weekend before last, I hit the track with my folks for the first time in a long while after Church.

Stroll Selfie: Mommy Aya & Me

Stroll Selfie: Papa Jun & Me

My mom told me that I wasn’t dressed up appropriately.

Sandals and skirt, really?

My footwear were toning flip flops …

Work those leg muscles {Fit Flops in black Rockstar bedazzled in Swarovski crystals & bronze; Reebok EasyTone (my most effective); Skechers Tone-Ups (the sister sandals to the Shape-Ups MBT-type sneakers)}

… and my bottoms were a running skort.

Exercise in comfort and style ~ putting this to good use @ Walk to End Alzheimers [2013] {running skirt/shorts combo from C9 by Champion}

I’d recommend these pieces when you’re on-the-go: walking while doing errands, but definitely not these open-toed shoes while you’re doing higher-impact or more strenuous exercise: running, tumbling, lifting weights, etc.

An outfit that I work out in actually offers resistance as I move!

Flexing after the Fiesta 5K [2012] {Hot pink top & black capris from the Reebok EasyTone line}

When I went to the park to walk with my parents again last week, my mom didn’t mention anything wrong with my choice of apparel anymore!

Stroll Selfie: Parentals in Shades & Yours Truly

Today, I look forward to going to the base gym (which, in my opinion, has the most top-of-the-line amenities compared to the rest of our citywide health clubs) with Evie! Enjoy your summer training sessions with a workout buddy to have fun, whether on the run or in the sun☼

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