Need a vacation?

Taking a few days off during the holidays forced me to reflect on how important TIME is for us -- downtime that is such as vacation. Like many of you, I find myself going nonstop during the week and continuing the same practice over the weekend. This gets even tougher when you have small children at home resulting in no "me time." Now that I am approaching my return to work on Monday, I am actually ready to return. It is good for us to force ourselves to take time off. Here are some really good informational sites to encourage you to do so. Web MD - Vacations, CNN supports time off, and even health care companies support it -- United Healthcare.

FREE BOOKS

To celebrate the New Year, I am offering BOTH of my e-books FREE on January 1, 2014. REMEMBER -- "You are a rock star. You’ve got this thing. Put your party pants on because you’ve wrapped up another year with great success! You’ve lived, you’ve learned, and you’re ready for the next challenge. Don’t give up now, you’re just getting started . . . Cheers to YOU! -- (Compliments of Baudville). Log into Amazon for your free e-books Stilettos to Pom-Poms and Triple F - Fifty Fit and Fabulous on New Year's Day.

Hot Flash Dance Team

Proof that Fitness is for Any Age, and Age is a State of Mind. The incredible sexy women of The Hot Flashes performed this past Saturday night at the Palladium in downtown Dallas, TX. Being a member of this wonderful team of talent is both inspirational AND fun!!! That's me on the first row -- a Demon. The theme was Sinners vs Saints made up of Angels and Demons.

Awesome Dirty Mudder Puckers

Dirty Mudder Puckers -- 4116 Christy, 4117 Sharon, 4169 Yesenia

Just got our group photo from the Dirty Girl Mud Run 5K and I wanted to introduce you to my awesome Dirty Girls Team. My white top in the photo is still not white today -- great to demonstrate the dirty games.

Mud Run "before photo"

Gotta have this shot so you get the drift that a MUD RUN means just that -- lots of MUD and FUN!! Check out my previous post for the muddy pictures.

Dirty Mudder Puckers -- The Run

WHAT A FEELING

Dirty Mudder Puckers - Bad to the Bone

The Dirty Girl Mud Run 5K was a blast on October 5th!!! Lots of money was raised for breast cancer research with the hope of doing some wonderful things and saving lives. I learned so much from the run and I wanted to share my experience for those of you considering this type of event.

• Run Run Run -- some of the web research that I did indicates not to practice jogging or running -- but to sprint. This particular run had more than sprinting! There was a lot of RUNNING! Prepare.
• Mud Run means just that - Mud! Get ready to have mud in places you never thought possible, and don't expect all of the mud to be gone after one shower.
• No matter what type of shoes you invest in, there will be mud and small pebbles inside them as you are running.
• You CAN save your shoes ----- we washed an entire river of mud and pebbles out of my shoes with a water hose. My white tank ---- that's another story (it is brown now).
• Practice bear crawls; crawling on your belly while pulling with your arms and knees; climbing ropes ---- some HIGH; practice crawling out into a plank and then follow with your feet walkup to a pike and back again; weight train.
• I give kudos to all of the women than ran -- some in shape and some not. Those that were not in shape KEPT ON GOING for the Cause and I salute them!
• Be prepared to be sore and possibly hurt.
• Most of all --- HAVE A GOOD TIME. I loved it and will do it again.

I hope those of you that took advantage of my books being offered free on October 5th enjoyed 
!!

Dirty Mudder Puckers - more volunteers

Peaking now Baby! We are on the way to having a very successful Mud Run. Trained Monday with crawls, squats, jumps, and sprints (of course some light weights too). Tuesday -- we killed it in Nike Training Class!!!! Holy Cow -- we teamed up and I am talking some good sweat swapping. Got another volunteer today for my team -- I am stoked!!! There is still time ladies.