Stepping Up To The Challenge (and a winner)

I’m the kind of person that always needs a challenge…

Growing up, I found that challenge in competing in sports…specifically with basketball and a couple years of track.

Even in college I competed in basketball and softball to find that challenge… In my very first blog post ever here on Runner’s Luck I mentioned that I ran out of sports eligibility in college and that’s why I started running… I needed another challenge!

Even within just running itself, I needed a challenge! That’s why I went from running 5ks to half marathons and why I ran a marathon… it was challenging to train for and run each new distance… That’s also why I feel like I need to PR at every. single. race! (Don’t worry, I totally know it’s not possible… I’m not that crazy!) And don’t get me wrong… there are TONS of other reasons why I run… mainly because I just down right LOVE it! BUT… the challenge is still a BIG appeal to me!

Then, I got hurt…and still have yet to go to the doctor. That has nothing to do with a challenge and everything to do with being stubborn, and perhaps a little scared… and definitely a tightwad…(more about the knee in a later post)

The point is, I needed another challenge…

I decided to try yoga… you may be thinking “YOGA? How is that challenging?”  Well my friends… the part of me that needs a challenge can’t settle for not being able to do the splits, or not being able to touch my feet to my head when doing king cobra pose, or not being able to do a simple handstand (more on that later too! lol) It all started as just a fun way to stretch to help heal my knee injury, but then I saw a pose that looked challenging and couldn’t stop thinking about it! So what did I do?  I tried it!

Welcome to Eka Pada Koundiyanasana I Pose

Challenge Accepted!

It’s definitely not perfect, but I've totally made some progress!! 

So, while I cannot run (I’m still working out)… I’ve found a challenge to keep me occupied! Because guess what?  There are more challenging arm balances and inversions I’d like to make progress on! While you may be reading all of my yoga posts lately thinking that it’s a total waste of time and that you’d never try yoga or it’s boring… just you wait!!  I have a post coming up that might just convince you to give it a go! :)

Do you always need a challenge in your life?
Do you practice yoga? How often?
If you don’t, why not? Think you ever will?

 

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Without further ado… the winner of the Run the Race Giveaway is…

What do a Tree, Camel, and Pigeon Have in Common?

Today is SATURDAY!!  I LOVE my Saturdays!! Even though I work from 5pm – 11pm… I look forward to Saturdays!!

Why??  Saturday is Yoga (active recovery) Day up in this joint and I look forward to it because I get to practice yoga with my best friend and make it a date! :)

I told you in my last post that this week would be Yoga week… lucky for you my blogging week consists of 2-3 posts… 3 being if you’re lucky! ;)  This girl is just way too busy to sit down and blog everyday!

With that being said… today’s yoga post consists of pictures of an instagram challenge I joined to help me get more familiar with some yoga poses and to have fun while doing it! :)

 

 

It was a lot of fun and I got to learn some new poses and do some things I didn’t think I’d be able to do…

Stay tuned because tomorrow I’ll bring you some fun facts about yoga and why it could be beneficial to us as runners to add it to our repertoire of cross training!

Do you practice Yoga?
Do you use it as cross training or do you practice everyday?
If you don’t do Yoga do you think you’ll ever try?
What keeps you from trying yoga?

Everybody Do the Splits!!! (Video)

If you missed it, or just started following my blog… I’m a lame-o… well my knee anyways ;)  If you want to read/watch about it you can click here… or you can just take my word for it that I haven’t been able to run due to an injured knee ;)

So instead of running and taking life too seriously, I started goofing off a little more ;)  (or trying out yoga that is!)  I joined an Instagram Yoga challenge (I’ll blog more about it when I get the chance.. with a CRAPton of Pictures, totes promise!) and one day the pose was the Splits.  I’m extremely not very flexible as you will see.. so I tried a different pose that could somewhat pass as doing a split! ;) Enjoy…