Lisa has been an amazinggggg client. Having had another client in Ray, ND I know they don’t have really any personal fitness centers at their disposal so I was pleased to be able to help her get into shape when she signed up. I knew we were going to make gains, but I was taken aback by her commitment. The day I told her to sign up for the half when she expressed interest, she emailed me back within hours letting me know she was committed. Little did I know exactly what would come of that race…
I was unhappy with my body and had been working out some but just didn’t know if I was doing the right exercises or following the right workout plans for me. I was running some and working out with some dvd’s. One day I was looking around on Facebook and saw a friend had liked something on the Kyra Williams Fitness page.
I started to read through the page and talked a little with her and decided I was just going to do it; I was going to sign up for online personal fitness training for a few months and see how it went.
The progress pictures were excruciating to take. I hated how my body looked and was embarrassed for myself and for my husband that had to take the pictures for me. But I started following the daily workout plan that Kyra gave to me. I loved the variety of the workouts and felt they were really tough!
A little while into it I decided that I also wanted to have a goal, something to work towards, a marker, so I told Kyra I wanted to sign up for a ½ and would need a workout schedule. She said she would do that but I had to send in some progress pictures! I was not excited to do this again but I did (otherwise I wouldn’t get my workout! Ha) and low and behold my body had changed!!! So that spurred me on even more.
I noticed with doing the strength workouts my runs felt a little easier. (I had attempted to run before but my legs always felt so heavy and tired so this was a very pleasant surprise!) So I continued to strength train and run.
A little over halfway into my running schedule I figured out I couldn’t actually run the ½ in Bismarck as planned and was very upset. I had trained so hard for this and now it wasn’t going to happen. After a few tears and a lot of woe is me attitude, I then decided I was going to keep up with my plan and still run, but instead I would run around my hometown. 13.1 is still 13.1 no matter where you run it!
My experience with the half marathon, was just plain awesome!!! First of all I was worried about a lot of things before the run. I playfully put a status on my Facebook page about “come one come all to the 1st Annual Ray 1/2 Marathon” as a joke, but then friends and some others expressed interest to run “with” me.
That put me into a tizzy since I know I’m not a fast runner and I have only trained alone, so thoughts going through my mind are “what if they want to visit, what if my breathing is loud, what if they run faster and I end up changing my pace, etc.” I was really stressing out for some reason over this. But the night before I just decided to forget about it all and just run, no matter who showed up to run with me or not.
So morning of the half marathon I got up, drank some water and coffee, had my peanut butter on toast and banana and then waited for the time to get there. I jokingly made myself a bib and posted it on Facebook and sure enough when my friend Kathy showed up at my house she had a race bib on as well.
We got to the spot to start right around 7:30 am. It was chilly, probably around 40 degrees, but hardly any wind and the sun was shining.. it was beautiful out. We started running and a little ways up I noticed some vehicles parked and people started getting out, it was my friends with signs and music blaring cheering us on!!! And when we started I did notice pink and black balloons hanging on road signs and we both thought there was probably a garage sale somewhere, but as we kept running they were along the whole route, they were for me!!!!
Kathy stayed with me for almost 3 miles and then went and sat with the girls and cheered me on. Around mile 7-ish another friend showed up and ran with me about 5 miles, but she left at mile 12 so I could run the last mile by myself. They had music playing, Gatorade, Gu’s, Jolly Ranchers, signs, they had a police car drive by with its sirens and lights that gave me a shout out and at the end had a streamer for me to run through and had my husband show up with the fire truck baring its siren for my finish. It was absolutely wonderful, I couldn’t have asked for a better weather day or a better experience!
Then afterwards we all had a beer standing there on the road and then a few of us girls went and had a couple more. We were just so on a high and didn’t want it to end yet!
One of my friends asked how I felt about missing out on the race in Bismarck; I said I didn’t feel I missed out on anything! And what’s better is they made it all about me, who wouldn’t love that?! ha!!!
I still continue to get the daily workout plan from Kyra and have since changed my goal.. My family and I are going to Jamaica in November!!
If you are ready to change your body, your health and your life, sign up for online personal training today!
Whether your goal is to lose fat or run a half marathon, I can help you achieve your goals!
Your Coach,
Kyra