Emilie Endurance Runner

In my strong era 💪🏻🏋🏼‍♀️💁🏼‍♀️

On my vision board for this year (yes I did one 🤷🏼‍♀️🥰) I had the picture of a badass, strong woman lifting in the gym.

I have been lifting since I was about 15 (as S&C for speed skating) and did it more or less regularly until about 10 years ago when I started to get really into long distance running. Many times I tried to get back into it, but would find excuses and just stop after a few weeks.
With this year being a big milestone (**cough **cough 40 😬), I knew I should make it a PRIORITY. And so I did. What kicked start it all was starting my job at and training for 6 weeks with 🤩 I fell back in love with lifting and I now NEED it in my daily life.
For those who are interested, I am currently doing a 4 days split of GBC (German Body Composition) Training (Google that!). Each workout isn’t more than 40-45 min and I have two days with upper body focus and 2 other days with lower body focus. Nice and simple.

More than one month since the Boston Marathon. I’ve been back in Singapore for more than a week.
I do not have any race lined up and it is by choice. People often tell me they admire how much I can juggle at the same time 😂

Well to be honest, I often look back and can’t believe it myself.
But lately, it came to a point where I have been feeling overwhelmed: new job, new life, new plans while still having to maintain stability for my kids.
Every day brings new challenges but also new exciting prospects I could have only dreamed of before.
So right now, I am just trying to go one day at a time while having faith that things are taking me in the right direction.

Sarah and I just did this workout in our hotel room 🤩🥳💪🏻
Short and sweet!

16 Minute Hotel HIIT Workout | Low Impact | No Noise | The Body Coach This workout is great if you're looking for something that's a bit more low impact.It's also great if you need to keep the noise down.2 rounds | 8 exercises ...

Thanks to my new exciting job at I have been back lifting more consistently and seriously with my amazing PT 💪🏻

I did not realise how much I needed it. I knew that with 40 knocking at my door it had to be a priority, but the experience so far has been eye opening in more than one way.

Happy International Women’s Day 🧚🏾‍♂️💕

Great run this morning before celebrations and beach time with the girls 👧🏻👧🏻❤️

I’m particularly happy with how my threshold efforts ( a pace I could race at for 50 to 60 minutes) are improving consistently 💪🏻
9 weeks to go until 🔥

Gong xi fa cai everyone 🧧🐲🎆

Especially washing the dishes. This never solve ANYTHING (apart from the problems associated with having dirty dishes laying around).
I'll take a tough tempo run around the park any day instead... and a dishwasher please.

🙋🏼‍♀️
Running is a big part of my self care/stress management strategy. I remember feeling quite lost when I was not running during both my pregnancies (for a few reasons I might talk about at some point).

Thankfully I could exercise a bit but it wasn’t the same.
That also enabled me to find other ways to ground myself and control my thoughts: spiritual practice, hobbies, gratitude journal, etc

But really, nothing beats a good run to sweat your worries away ☺️

Interval Training vs Steady State

The age old debate 😅

Check out my latest blog post on this topic.
Spoiler alert: both and it depends 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

📌 https://www.emilieendurancerunner.com/blog/steadyvsintervals

Do you agree? 🤣

Are you always bored on runs?

🙅‍♀️Some purists will tell you to only run with the sound of your breath and nature... but yeah nah 😂

🕙Interval workouts usually tend to go by faster because your mind is directed towards keeping tab on the time/intervals and the effort at hand.

🐌Steady state runs can usually be a bit more of a struggle for some.

🔥To make my runs go by quicker I love:

🎤Podcasts: I will make a specific post on podcasts soon, stay tuned

🎼Music: especially for road races
Love me some trance/house/80's-90's

📕Audiobooks: I get mine from the Singapore National Library on the Libby app. I especially like sports people biographies and political commentary.

👯I personally always run on my own, but running with a partner or group definitely helps to beat the boredom.

What's your favourite way to make the miles 🦅 (or KM's🌏) go by faster?